The Croods: A New Age

This is quite a fun, escapist animation. The really colourful palette and the very cute character really helps to forget what is going on in the real world.

The story and dialogue is pretty cliched but the animation is amazing. Just a beautiful movie. I love all the hybrid animals, who would have thought a wolf spider could be so cute.

What a visually impressive film. I guess it's something to be expected of this day and age.. but I still can't get over how good it looks. And not just hilarious facial expressions, structures, lighting and color usage.. but the injection of modern ideas and references transformed to an ancient period (the concept of a "joyride" and coming back late). The writers of this movie are pretty smart and creative! Almost geniuses!!

Each dialogue and idea is well thought out, has a point and doesn't waste anything. The entire movie is so well made that I'm seriously impressed no one is talking about it. Initially, I thought it was going to be one of those photoplays that fails to recapture the essence of the original.. but this one goes beyond.

I would even watch it again! And that is, to me, a sign of a good movie.. worth re-watching.

Ok so right of the bat, my expectations of a sequel to any film has always been low. So it has been for this film. However as I started watching this film I was kinda impressed with how the things were going. We had the continuation of the previous films stone age humour, AMAZING visuals(like seriously this had to be the most impressive thing of this film ) , Amazing Animation, some interesting characters... It is a real adventure fest - quite fast paced and quite loud ( however I felt sometimes it was dragged a bit too much). However, as the film proceeded the reality set in and the cliched statement of "Sequels are always worse then their predecessor" starting to come to light. It transformed itself from a cool animated film to the most cringiest weird animated film in just a few moments. There were so many moments when I wanted to bury my head in my palms, look the other way... You get what I'm implying at. I seriously don't understand why the creators went down this path. For me this was the most disappointing part. Story was weak. Voice acting was very good. I felt better songs could have been added. Overall this is a good flick - Mainly for the animatons and visuals, if you can just muster the strength to sit through the cringy scenes.

While the story hasn't evolved that much, 'The Croods: A New Age' has a line-up of talented voice cast, lively and colorful animation, some big laugh-out-loud moments, and a great message about getting along and working together to turn it into a decent, pleasant sequel.