"I'm a....... Caveman!"

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2013)

The Croods, a film with extreme slapstick humor and a solid idea that wasn't completely executed all that correctly. In the first 15 minutes it started pretty slow yet this film always keeps the kids laughing from start to end. The animation was surprisingly ahead of its time with amazing shots throughout. It picks up pretty soon mostly with Emma Stone's character who I believed I was going to hate but ended up endearing. The characters journey isn't as "epic" as I was led to believe but definitely not as dreadful. Each character has some actual range obviously in the humor scale but surprisingly in the dramatic one as well. All of the creatures and setting are beautiful/realistic with extreme creativity but there could have been more creativity in the humor, not just unoriginal physical humor(it still was pretty humorous). The moral/value of the story actually gets across to the audience quite fluently. The emotion felt pretty cliché/slightly forced when it actually counted but in other minor areas it ended up touching you. The Croods is an extremely heavy hearted film with great humorous attributes which needed some more originality, the actors matched pretty well with their characters as well, especially Nicolas Cage(surprisingly), there aren't so many faults but I was still searching for what would make this film stand out its still a solid outing which as you 've probably heard 1000 times, take the kids to see this.