2013 · animation · adventure · family
The Croods
Directed by Kirk DeMicco1h 39m2013
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.
Our read: The Croods (2013) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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