The Croods Movie Reviews

The vividly rendered animated adventures of a Neanderthal family often measures up to the standards set by such recent cartoon blockbusters as How To Train Your Dragon (2010) and Rango (2011). Not surprisingly, acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins (Skyfall) served as visual consultant on all the three movies. Young audiences will soak up plenty of colour and relate to the bunch of goofy characters from prehistoric times. Briskly paced, the escapades

The film grabs you as early as the action-packed opening hunt sequence with a quick character introduction along with a gander at other prehistoric creatures that could only have come out of someone's imagination. The story. Well, it's a fairly simple one. Something not quite unlike another recent release about a prehistoric family (of woolly mammoths and other assorted friends) plot-wise. The detailing, rendering, textures and stereography

Zany, zippy, meaningful and sweet, there is never a single dull moment in The Croods.

…you don’t wander about that much as the journey, complete with fantastical plants and animals, is interesting and funny enough — that too, without any songs.

Set in prehistoric times, 'The Croods' is what you might describe as "Ice Age with Humans". The film's message - that being adaptable is the key to one's survival - is conveyed through the story of a close-knit family of cave dwellers. Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage) is the over-protective patriarch of a tiny Neanderthal clan who insists they stay huddled together in their cave, so they don't risk being eaten alive by wild animals outside