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Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2013)

The Croods is about a family who do not like change, apart from of course the eldest child who sounds a lot like Emma Stone.
Whenever she wants to venture and do something different, her dad, who sounds like Nicolas Cage, always refers to his stories and states that anything new will end up with them getting killed.
Emma ventures out one night, meets Ryan Reynolds, where he warns her about the end, and so this takes the titular family on an adventure like noting they have experienced before, because they haven't experienced anything before.....
This is one of those movies that really surprised me, not because the animation looks really beautiful, or Nicolas Cage is really restraint for most of the film, but the fact that its actually good fun and hilarious throughout.
You could be forgiven if, like me, you thought it would be Cage and the old woman arguing through the film. This does happen, but the makers haven't been that predictable, and kept this to a minimum, making it all the more funnier.
This focuses more on inevitable change, and getting the traditionalist person (here Dad) and getting him to accept the change.
There are many troupes in the movie, Not liking Reynolds, everyone turning on Cage, Cage and Reynolds bonding after a near death experience.
But it doesn't matter, because it all feels fresh, and it seems that the makers have done a little tribute to those cheap prehistoric movies that Doug McClure starred in in the seventies.
So all in all, it's predictable, but doesn't throw it in the audiences face, and it looks really good too.
Well worth seeing.