The Croods
MPAA Rating: PGIn Theaters: March 22nd, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes (98 minutes)
Rated PG for some scary action.
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The Croods Review
- What's Good:
- Animatic experience, visual imagination, action, adventure, fun, surprising moments, and the story... unremarkable.
- What's Bad:
- We can't think of any, but some may feel anime to be not as evolved as modern day animation.
- Verdict:
- This movie has both its heart and brain in the right place.
- Watch or Not:
- Definitely watch it for fast-paced, warm and adventurous story.
Audience Ratings for The Croods
Plot Summary
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.
Critics Reviews for The Croods
69 Critics like this movie.
Reviews Counted: 29 | Positive Review: 20 | Negative Review: 9 | Average Rating: 3.2/5It captures the wonder (and more gently, the anxiety) of discovery time and time again. And the filmmakers have a hoot playing with the Croods' encounters with, as well as their misunderstandings of, all things new.
Critic Score: 3.5/4
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.
The animation is first-rate, with moments of genuine visual imagination, and the story, while unremarkable, is entirely adequate.
How to Train Your Dragon" and "Lilo & Stitch" are completely indicative of the experience you'll have with "The Croods," which is to say a supremely positive one.
Critic Score: B
It may not be an instant animated classic, but it's a charmer that will leave the kids ... feeling warm and fuzzy ...
Critic Score: 3/5
A film which, if not truly sophisticated, isn't nearly as crude as advertised.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
The family-dramedy genre that the film inhabits demands a bit more narrative ingenuity than is on display.
Fast-paced, inventive animated comic adventure of a Stone Age family gets an extra boost from the lively vocal performances of stars Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.
Even the lively visuals and unrelenting thrill-ride pace can't disguise rough-hewn storytelling, or the fact that the tale of a old-fashioned macho cave dad and his family seems a bit yabba-dabba done that already.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
This movie not only has its heart in the right place, it has its brain in the right place.
Critic Score: B
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.
Critic Score: 1/4
"The Croods" is light fare, but it explores a serious theme, if only superficially.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
It's the kind of rib-tickling, emotionally satisfying, universally appealing effort that gives computer animation a good name.
Critic Score: 3.5/4
Like the continents, it's a little too easy to drift away.
Critic Score: 2.5/5
[It] might even give the little ones something more challenging to think about than its tired main plot.
Critic Score: 3/5
The pace is brisk and occasionally slapstick, and some amusing situations stem from the cavemen displaying brawn over brains.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Had the movie figured out a way to stay the less-cliched course, it might have helped the DreamWorks oeuvre take steps toward Pixar's emotional resonance.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Considering the fact that a young girl is picking her nose on the movie poster, "The Croods" is surprisingly evolved.
Critic Score: 3/4
Neither as thrilling nor as funny as it ought to be.
Critic Score: 2/4
The movie is well-edited and lean, a fast-paced, action-filled bit of froth that manages to be diverting and surprisingly fun.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
When it gets past the Stone Age humor, this weird film manages to find some gentle revelations.
Critic Score: 3/5
Although state-of-the-art in its rendering of textures, movement and stereography, DreamWorks' latest 3D toon, The Croods, adopts a relatively primitive approach to storytelling.
In an interesting way, "The Croods" is about storytelling - cave paintings, hints of oral tradition, stumbling upon metaphors - and the impulse to remember amid change. There's something touching in that ...
Critic Score: 3/4
"The Croods" rests on the notion of the patriarch who must learn to adapt and let go. (I resent this storyline, for the record.)
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Despite a few too many mother-in-law jokes, "The Croods" nicely makes it clear that even before they had fire, families understood how important it was to cherish and protect each other.
Critic Score: 3/4
It's all well enough.
Critic Score: 3/5
A handful of adrenalizing sequences of animated anarchy can't save this story from feeling overly primitive.
Critic Score: C+
"The Croods" is both brisk and beautiful, and should be sufficiently entertaining for family audiences for whom few such options exist these days.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Further back on the evolutionary chain than the Flintstones, and also lagging in the comedy stakes, this sweet Stone Age clan nonetheless will captivate the youngsters.
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