Not a horrible animated adventure, but I've had better....

Rating: 7/10 (4 April 2013)

The review: The opening 15 min. or so was pretty intriguing. The whole family participates in the process of hunting dinner, which is pretty creative and entertaining. Then the daughter meets a young man names Guy, who is not a typical "cave man". He has different ideas about hunting, living, and pretty much everything. His ideas clash with those of Grug, the girl's father. Grug has his own ideas about life, and most of them require the family to be inside a cave whenever there is danger and whenever it is dark out. After the family meets Guy, they are curious about his ideas. Their curiosity, coupled with their homeland being destroyed by earthquakes and volcanoes force them to start out on a journey for a new land and a hope of safety. The interactions with the members of the cave family and Guy are pretty humorous most of the time. The members of the family include: Grug- father, protective of entire family, especially Eep. Eep-daughter, kind of likes this "Guy" fella, and want s some independence. Ugga-mother, not very vocal, supports Grug, but visibly would like a change like the others. Gran-grandma, Ugga's mother, she doesn't like Grug and is vocal in her dissent for his ideas, this = funny much of the time. Thunk-son, the least intelligent of the bunch, blindly follows, and does some interesting things due to his lack of intelligence. The visuals in this movie are very good, and probably the best part in my opinion. We didn't watch this one in 3D, but I imagine it's very pretty in 3D. The journey got a tad boring for me before they were done, and I didn't love the daughter's constant infatuation with "Guy" and rebellion against her father, but it could be because my four year old was with me and I didn't love how she was portrayed and didn't wish her to emulate this behavior anytime soon. Also, I didn't think Grug got enough credit, he was kind of blind to other ideas, but he did keep his family safe and just got constant criticism most of the time from all.
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