The Croods, Movie Review

The Croods Review:

Produced by DREAMWORKS ANIMATION STUDIO

Distributed by 20TH CENTURY FOX

Starring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine

Keener, Clark Duke, and Cloris Leachman.

The Croods is a beautifully animated tale of a family of Neanderthal Cavemen,

see film title for their name, and starts with the eldest daughter, Eep, voiced

by Emma Stone, describing how she has to put up with the boredom of her family

life, living inside the darkness of their home, in a cave.

Eep is forever keen to get outside into the sunlight to explore and find new

things, which is something that her father, Grug, voiced by Nicolas Cage, being

an overprotective parent, will not allow because he says it's too dangerous.

The Croods are one of the last remaining families of cavemen alive due to

various tragedies including other families being eaten by prehistoric creatures

and illnesses.

One of the opening scenes involves the Croods leaving the cave to go hunting. It

displays a truly comedic display of how the food chain works at this time in

history and has a bit of a cat and mouse chase where there are all sorts of

species of creatures, including The Croods entire family, young and old, all

going after the same piece of food.

The plot is mainly about the changes in the Earth's environment and the

continental shift. Eep, while having a night stuck in the cave, notices a light

outside and decides to once again ignore her father and explore. It turns out

that the light was from a fire, something which she had never before seen, and

while outside, meets another human, Guy, voiced by Ryan Reynolds who declares

that the World as they know it is about to come to an end.

Eep and The Croods embark on an adventure across treacherous, and newly,

unexplored lands to escape the volcanic, crumbling land they once knew.

This is a fantastic family movie, perfectly animated, and with mildly presented

adult humour, is a guaranteed laugh. The plot is easy to follow, but fits

wonderfully into the hour and a half feature, like an old toy into a

kindergarten.

If you haven't seen DreamWorks first release since the end of their distribution

deal with Paramount Pictures in 2012, then we at BlogDangerous recommend you

make the effort to see it in cinema, before it gets put onto BluRay and DVD.

7.5/10 Blogger Points