Tanner is one of the main characters in Teen Beach Movie franchise. He is the male lead in Wet Side Story.
Background
Tanner is a surfer and hangs out with the group of surfers in Brady's favorite movie Wet Side Story. He is expected to dislike the bikers, who want Big Momma's all to themselves.
Personality
Tanner is a cute, quirky, funny, adorable, and good looking all wrapped into one. However, he's not the smartest. Sure he can be a cutie, but a really not-the-smartest cutie. He's romantic, as shown when he wanted to write Mack a song. He always wanted to ride a motorcycle and thinks bikers aren't that bad.
Appearances
Teen Beach Movie
In Wet Side Story, Tanner is a part of the surfer group, who he hangs out with and surfs with. When Tanner catches a biker girl, Lela, in his arms, they instantly fall in love. Due to them being apart of rival groups, Bikers and Surfers, they must keep their love a secret.
When McKenzie, who is a real person, is transported into Wet Side Story, she falls into Tanner's arms instead of Lela and Tanner falls in love with McKenzie rather than Lela. However, he falls for Lela in the end, after Brady and McKenzie are captured.
Teen Beach 2
Back in Wet Side Story, Tanner is happy with Lela and their friends, but when Lela finds the necklace she gave to Mack, he goes with her. Tanner finds himself in the real world outside of the 1960s movie, and is excited to see and do new things.
He and Lela start noticing something is wrong with Mack and Brady, and Tanner helps Brady work through some tough things relating to his relationship with Mack, revealing that he can pay attention and be a very caring friend.
Relationships
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Promotion
Teen Beach Movie
Teen Beach 2
Trivia
- He is based off of Ken the Doll.
- His character was based off of Link Larkin from the musical Hairspray.
- Coincidentally Garrett Clayton who portrays Tanner ended up playing Link Larkin in the TV Special Hairspray Live! in 2016, a year after Teen Beach 2 was released.