The Croods is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated
adventure comedy film
produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
It features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener,
Clark Duke, and
Cloris Leachman. The film is set in a fictional
prehistoric Pliocene era known as The Croodaceous (a period which contains
fictional prehistoric creatures) when a caveman's position as a "Leader of
the Hunt" is threatened by the arrival of a prehistoric genius who comes
up with revolutionary new inventions as they trek through a dangerous but
exotic land in search of a new home.
Eep is a cave girl living in the harsh environment of the
stone age with her overprotective father Grug, her kind mother Ugga, her
grandmother Gran and her younger siblings Thunk and Sandy. The only family
around after their neighbors met unfortunate ends, Eep lives a sheltered life
protected by her father until one night she sees a light outside of the cave.
Defying Grug's rule about going out after dark she follows it and meets an
inventive idealist named Guy and his pet sloth Belt who introduces Eep to fire and
explains that he is escaping what he calls "The End" saying that a
great cataclysm is coming that could destroy Eep and her family. She refuses to
go with him, but he gives her a shell to use as a horn if she needed him. Grug,
looking for Eep eventually finds her and grounds her for breaking the rules. On
their way back to the cave, a tremendous earthquake
causes its destruction, revealing a tropical wilderness behind it. They are
forced to escape into it when a predator attacks them, and Grug seeks out to
find the family a new cave to live in.
Upon encountering a feline "Macawnivore" dubbed
"Chunky the Death Cat" by Gran, and pirahnakeets that send even him
running after they ate a Ground Whale, Eep calls for help with a horn like the
shell that Guy gave her. He comes and saves them by using a torch to dissuade
the piranhakeets from attacking them. After a chaotic first encounter with
fire, Eep's family realizes Guy's value at their survival and Grug bottles him
to guide them toward the mountain he is seeking refuge at. After another of
Grug's morale-lowering stories reflecting the day's events, Guy tells his own
story of a safe paradise dubbed "Tomorrow". After introducing the
family to shoes to get over sharp terrain, Grug begins to get jealous of Guy's
inventions and ideas, and when they become separated in a labyrinth of tunnels,
the family excluding Grug find their own means of escaping. After his family
stays in a treetop home of Guy's Grug tries to come up with several of his own
ideas, such as a rug dubbed
because it rhymes with Grug, sunglasses made
from planks of wood. But each of these ideas fail, embarrassing Grug even
further as his family decides to go with Guy to "Tomorrow".
At the mountain, Grug attacks Guy when the others refuse
to join him in a cave where he wants to settle. The tussle gets the two of them
caught in a tar pit and Guy reveals his family died in one. Grug realizes
his mistakes and the two make amends before tricking Chunky into freeing them
by pretending to be a female Macawnivore in distress. Fleeing to the peak of
the mountain, they are cut off from "Tomorrow" by an explosion, but
Grug decides that his family is safer following the sun and throws them across,
sharing a brief invention he calls a "hug" with Eep. Cut off from his
family from the destruction, Grug seeks shelter in a cave and encounters Chunky
who cuddles up to Grug for protection. Grug gets his first good idea and
fashions an airship out of a skeleton and using the pirahna-birds as a means to
fly across the chasm with Thunk's dog-crocodile Douglas, and several animals
they'd encountered in their journey. Reuniting with his family and narrowly
avoiding destruction they share a hug together and Grug gains a new perspective
on life and stops being so overprotective.
Later, the Croods now live on the land and have settled
on a vast beach where every day they can follow the light to
"Tomorrow."
The Croods has a great movie with a contrast of
excitement, worry, happiness, sadness, and most of all action! The film's primary message -- which gets spelled out
bluntly and often -- is that fear of change is bad; success means seeking new
ways of thinking (or thinking for the first time, as only one character in the
film ever actually has called on his brain before). You can read this several
ways, one of which is as an inspiration for kids to try new things, be open to
change and to be bold in the face of scary situations. This movie tell us about
father fighting
anything and everything for his family no matter what happens, and
made usa realize aout father always give way to his children altough our
father’s can’t get anything. In this movie i like quote from Guy “Tomorrow it’s
a place with more suns in the sky than you can count, a place not like today or
yesterday, a place where things are better.” And “ You may go anywhere you
want.”
Cast :
Nicolas Cage as
Grug Crood, a caveman who is the well-meaning but overprotective and
old-fashioned patriarch of the Croods family
Emma Stone as
Eep Crood, a rebellious teenage cavegirl who is Grug and Ugga's eldest daughter
and is filled with curiosity and a desire for exploring and wonder.
Ryan Reynolds as
Guy, a nomadic caveboy who is not as strong as the Croods, but prefers using
his brain and comes up with various ideas and inventions. He is accompanied by
a sloth named Belt.
Catherine Keener as
Ugga Crood, a cavewoman who is Grug's wife, the daughter of Gran, and the
mother of Eep, Thunk, and Sandy. She is more open-minded than Grug, but also
finds it difficult to keep her family safe.
Clark Duke as
Thunk Crood, a caveboy who is Grug and Ugga's son. Thunk is the 9-year-old
middle child, who is not bright and has bad coordination but has a good heart. He
gets a crocopup named Douglas for a pet.
Cloris Leachman as
Gran, an old and ferocious cavewoman who is the mother-in-law of Grug, the
mother of Ugga, and the grandmother of Eep, Thunk, and Sandy.
Editor
by : Darren Holmes, A.C.E
Soundtrack
by : Yuna and Owl City – Shine Your Way
Produced
by : Kristine, Belson, Jane, and
Hartwell.
Story
by : John Cleese, Kirk Demicco,
Chris Sarders.
