Beautifully animated, but obnoxious and manic like a kid on caffine

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2020)

Easily The Croods best asset is in it's art direction and animation. The creatures are creative and the character designs are unique and memorable. Unfortunately that's where my praise stops as everything the animation is in service of is so fast paced and lacking in any focus it becomes exhausting. Once the movie begins it does not stop, it keeps movie with virtually no rests and that is not a good thing. There are some interesting ideas here, but those are most likely just brief glimpses of what might've been had Aardman been allowed to go with their original concept of this being a buddy comedy between a Luddite and inventor. If you want to see this type of concept done well, just watch Early Man, it's not perfect but at least it doesn't feel the need to pass off constant unrelenting noise as entertainment.