The Croods - Dan dan daaaaah !

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2013)

I delinquently start my first review of an animated movie meant for kids, feel like criticizing a three year old for writing a poem with spelling mistakes. I wish this critique is particularly read by the children who are under 13.
The Croods by DreamWorks Animation is a 3-D animated disaster movie, co- directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders. Voiced by some of the leading stars like Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds the movie becomes even more lively. The film raises curiosity as it has been directed by Chris Sanders who made the critically acclaimed animated feature "How to Train Your Dragon". Eventually all his directorial ventures has a co-director and he has co-written with each of them.
This movie set in the pre-historic era is about The Croods, the last of cavemen who've survived all the catastrophes just by staying within a cave and how they turn to be the first modern family of a new era. They are a family of six lead by an overprotective dad Grug (Nicholas Cage). We have Eep the daughter who is chunky and one cannot digest the fact that Emma Stone has given the voice for her. One day Eep meets a scrawny boy called Guy (Ryan Renolds) who tells her about the end of the world, which he very fittingly calls "The End". The crux of the story happens when the family meets Guy and how he takes them on an exodus to the land of tomorrow.
The landscape which The Croods pass by is like Pandora without the fifty shades of blue. The animals in the movie makes one think which weird cross breeding would have created them. An elephantish rat, a mammoth with the skin texture of a giraffe, a bat with pig's face and I let you to imagine the rest. The most adorable creature will be Belt (Chris Sanders) who is Guy's pet, navigator, and belt (Yeah that's how he got the name), you should listen to him saying "Dan dan daaaah" which means "The End" in his language.
Grug's a strong man who's in charge of the safety of the family and at the same time he likes to see his mother-in-law dead. He's the last of the surviving cavemen and who lives to save his clan by keeping themselves away from calamities. Eep the daughter is always fascinated by new stuffs while the entire family believes anything new is dangerous. Guy the hippie is actually a brainy boy who along with his sidekick Belt comes with new ideas at the time of danger. The rest of the cast add to the fun here and there, among them the Gran (Mom-in-law) and Sandy (Younger daughter) are to be specifically mentioned.
We all love movies which involves a journey, don't we ? Similarly this is like the coolest disaster movie one would witness with a plethora of scenes to keep you interested. Though the script is sloppy with illogical and clichéd scenes, the comedy saves it from a drag, specially when all the animals close their ears when they couldn't bear the chatter of the cavies passing by the forest, even the subtlest of comedies will leave one chuckling. As an adult if you let your inner child to experience the movie you'll have a fun time lost in the Chug, I name it because it rhymes with Grug (Watch the movie to know about it ;))