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The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures — and their outlook is changed forever.
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Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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- 75Film.com - by Laremy Legel
This Chris Sanders fellow knows how to craft a heart-warming animation, and if not for a few minor problems this would have had a legitimate shot at the best animated movie of 2013. ...read more - 75Chicago Sun-Times - by Nell Minow
Familiar family dynamics are amusingly exaggerated in the Paleolithic setting, where the most basic necessities require everyone's full-time attention. ... - 75Movie Nation - by Roger Moore
The first pleasant surprise of spring, a gorgeous kids’ cartoon with heart and wit, if not exactly a firm grasp of paleontology. ...read more - 70NPR - by Bob Mondello
As family viewing, it's pleasant enough: primitive, yes, but in a digitally sophisticated way that's boisterous, funny and will no doubt sell a lot of toys. ... - 67Tampa Bay Times - by Sean Daly
Although The Croods has lazy patches throughout, the conclusion is exciting and, lo and behold, surprising. ...read more - 67The A.V. Club - by Scott Tobias
The film itself doesn’t practice what it preaches: From the typically blocky DreamWorks CGI to the emphasis on bruising slapstick over verbal wit, The Croods takes the low road at every opportunity, giving lip service to enlightenment while following a Flintstonian instinct to keep punching the clock at the quarry. ...read more - 63Washington Post - by Michael O'Sullivan
Just good, goofy fun, for a generation too young to have met Bamm-Bamm. ...read more - 63USA Today - by Claudia Puig
More than anything, the striking spectacle of primordial flora and one-of-a-kind fauna makes it easy for audiences to get pleasantly lost in the adventure. ...read more - 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - by Liam Lacey
While paying lip service to the spirit of invention and adventure, the movie doesn’t do much for the evolution of children’s animated entertainment. ...read more - 63Philadelphia Inquirer - by Tirdad Derakhshani
The movie is well-edited and lean, a fast-paced, action-filled bit of froth that manages to be diverting and surprisingly fun. ... - 63Boston Globe - by Tom Russo
Some of the exotic landscape the group trailblazes looks imported from “Avatar” — happily, bringing that immersively dimensionalized, eye-catching quality along with it. ...read more - 63Chicago Tribune - by Michael Phillips
At least there's Cage, who has become an astute voice actor, finding some odd, clever, energetic line readings consistently fresher than The Croods itself. ...read more - 60The New York Times - by Neil Genzlinger
The movie is at its most interesting and amusing when riffing on how cavemen might have reacted to new experiences and ideas, like fire and shoes. Whether the kiddies will appreciate that is unclear, but they’ll certainly like the voice work done by Emma Stone as Eep. ... - 60New York Daily News - by Miriam Bale
The Croods are not meant to be beauties — they are, after all, a family of Neanderthals. But is the animation meant to be ugly, too? ...read more - 60Arizona Republic - by Bill Goodykoontz
The jokes only make up for the pedestrian plot for so long. There was a time when animated fare with generic stories sufficed. But now we expect more from them, because they have, pardon the pun, evolved. The Croods, like its title family, hasn’t. ... - 58Entertainment Weekly - by Keith Staskiewicz
A handful of adrenalizing sequences of animated anarchy can't save this story from feeling overly primitive. ...read more - 58The Playlist - by Jessica Kiang
Though it's impressive in many technical and surface ways, The Croods lets us down on the essentials of character and story, and no amount of late-stage father/daughter bonding or vertiginous 3D cliffside tumbling can make up for that. ...read more - 50Time - by Richard Corliss
It’s "Identity Thief" with flying piranhas, or Plains, Trains & Automobiles on foot. ...read more - 50Los Angeles Times - by Betsy Sharkey
Good stuff comes when bad stuff happens; that's when some of the movie animation prowess kicks into high gear. But too many of the "solutions" the guys concoct are so impossibly complex or just downright ridiculous — puppetry comes to mind — that like the continents, it's a little too easy to drift away. ...read more - 50Variety - by Staff (Not credited)
Although state-of-the-art in its rendering of textures, movement and stereography, The Croods, adopts a relatively primitive approach to storytelling with its Flintstonian construction of stock, ill-fitting narrative elements. ...read more - 50The Hollywood Reporter - by David Rooney
Sanders and DeMicco’s script doesn’t have the robust plotting, consistent wit or flavorful character development of the best family animation. And some of the voice actors have too little to work with. ...read more - 40Time Out New York - by Keith Uhlich
Aside from a few witty Looney Tunes–esque sight gags, such as one hilarious image of a woolly mammoth being swallowed up by the tectonically shifting earth, the stereoscopic visuals are a busy, personality-free digital blur. ...read more - 40New Orleans Times-Picayune - by Mike Scott
The Croods does a lot of things well -- even if it does none of them extraordinarily. The end result is a solidly middle-of-the-road bit of animation -- but the kind that is easily forgotten as soon as something more evolved, and original, comes along. ...read more - 40The Guardian - by Peter Bradshaw
It's amiable enough, but it makes "The Flintstones" look like it was scripted by Karl Popper. ...read more - 40Total Film - by James Mottram
But for the most part it’s Neanderthal compared to the Pixar stable. ...read more - 25New York Post - by Kyle Smith
I’d like to take back all those times I said Nicolas Cage was one of the most annoying actors on film. It turns out he’s equally terrible when he’s only on the soundtrack. And yet Cage is the least of the problems with The Croods. ...read more
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The Flintstones meet National Lampoon’s Vacation in this very fun update of One Million Years B.C. What sets this apart is its wild imaginative indulgence as well as its disregard for physics. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
The Flintstones meet National Lampoon’s Vacation in this very fun update of One Million Years B.C. What sets this apart is its wild imaginative indulgence as well as its disregard for physics. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.