{"id":119299,"date":"2020-11-24T18:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-croods-a-new-age-review-overstuffed-sequel-has-heart\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:26:30","slug":"the-croods-a-new-age-review-overstuffed-sequel-has-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-croods-a-new-age-review-overstuffed-sequel-has-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"#’The Croods: A New Age’ review: Overstuffed sequel has heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’The Croods: A New Age’ review: Overstuffed sequel has heart<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Croo-oods! Meet the Croo-oods! They\u2019re a modern Pleistocene era family!<\/p>\n

That was the gist of 2013\u2019s \u201cThe Croods,\u201d a DreamWorks animated film about a prehistoric household, that dug up the formula once embraced by 1960s shows such as \u201cThe Flintstones,\u201d \u201cThe Jetsons\u201d and \u201cThe Munsters\u201d \u2014 \u201cthey\u2019re a family just like yours and mine, but with a twist<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n

The OK first movie, a whopping seven years ago, sought to answer the age-old question: \u201cWhat if cavemen spoke English?\u201d<\/p>\n

The fun sequel, with a smidge more ambition than its predecessor, tacks on, \u201cWhat if cavemen met non-cavemen?\u201d<\/p>\n

Answer: hijinks, and lots of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

This time around, the Croods, voiced by the strange ensemble of Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone, Cloris Leachman and Clark Duke, leave home and encounter the Bettermans, a posh and more recognizably human clan.<\/p>\n

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Sandy Crood (Kailey Crawford), Grug Crood (Nicolas Cage), Thunk Crood (Clark Duke), Gran (Cloris Leachman), Eep Crood (Emma Stone) and Ugga Crood (Catherine Keener) in \u201cThe Croods: A New Age.\u201d<\/span>DreamWorks Animation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bettermans (Peter Dinklage, Leslie Mann and Kelly Marie Tran) are a kind of hippie Swiss Family Robinson. They live in a treehouse in the middle of a walled-off Garden of Eden where they farm crops and keep groovy. Did flip-flops exist 12,000 years ago? I studied theater in college \u2014 who am I to say?<\/p>\n

The two families\u2019 country-mouse-city-mouse vibe adds some \u201cOdd Couple\u201d-esque complications. Crood dad Grug (Cage, who\u2019s got a creepy voice for a kids movie) prefers a more rugged lifestyle, whereas Betterman pop Phil (Dinklage) likes to chillax in a steamy sauna. Eep (Stone) teaches shy Hope Betterman (Mann) the thrills of joyriding .\u2009.\u2009. on a saber-toothed tiger. And Guy (Ryan Reynolds), the abandoned human from the original film, thinks he\u2019s found a new home with his own kind, where he fits in better.<\/p>\n

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Thunk Crood (Clark Duke), Sandy Crood (Kailey Crawford) and Gran (Cloris Leachman) catch a fright.<\/span>Photo Credit: DreamWorks Animati<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Setting \u201cA New Age\u201d in a whimsical garden adds a pop of neon color to director Joel Crawford\u2019s flick, even if its vibrancy sometimes verges on \u201cRainbow Brite.\u201d Especially during the tiger ride, when the girls are wowed by giant orange-pink insects that resemble leaves, the movie glistens.<\/p>\n

The film is overstuffed with comedy material, though. There\u2019s a time-period-app<\/a>ropriate gag for everything \u2014 the TV is just a hole in the wall that they watch birds through \u2014 and the jokes are nonstop. The best moments of animated films are often the most serene.<\/p>\n

But as the CGI Wars between DreamWorks and Pixar go, I\u2019ve sided with DreamWorks over the years because their wonderful movies<\/a> such as \u201cShrek,\u201d \u201cHow To Train Your Dragon\u201d and \u201cKung Fu Panda\u201d prize feelings over brains. Sure they\u2019re smart, but, unlike much of Pixar, not card-carrying Mensa members. \u201cThe Croods\u201d is a B-side for them in terms of creativity, however its heart is definitely not made of stone.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’The Croods: A New Age’ review: Overstuffed sequel has heart” Croo-oods! Meet the Croo-oods! They\u2019re a modern Pleistocene era family! That was the gist of 2013\u2019s \u201cThe Croods,\u201d a DreamWorks animated film about a prehistoric household, that dug up the formula once embraced by 1960s shows such as \u201cThe Flintstones,\u201d \u201cThe Jetsons\u201d and \u201cThe Munsters\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/croods-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[81226,7598],"class_list":["post-119299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-24-20","tag-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}