Synopsis
The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy is correct about the impending destruction of their world.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageGrug Crood (voice)
- Emma StoneEep Crood (voice)
- Ryan ReynoldsGuy (voice)
- Catherine KeenerUgga Crood (voice)
- Cloris LeachmanGran Crood (voice)
- Clark DukeThunk Crood (voice)
- Chris SandersBelt (voice)
- Randy ThomSandy Crood (voice)
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
A spirited and eye-popping stealth charmer. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The first pleasant surprise of spring, a gorgeous kids’ cartoon with heart and wit, if not exactly a firm grasp of paleontology. - 67
The A.V. Club
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. - 60
Arizona Republic
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. - 58
The Playlist
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. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
A handful of adrenalizing sequences of animated anarchy can't save this story from feeling overly primitive. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Variety
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.
