The Croods Reviews
Movie Metropolis
The first act may be a little slow, but once this animated caveman comedy gets rolling, it's a rollicking good family movie. No wonder there's already a TV series and a sequel in development.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ComingSoon.net
The Croods is a pleasant surprise that features imaginative production design, a funny story, and excellent voice acting by Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, and Nicolas Cage.
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
EricDSnider.com
The film gets by on its high spirits and good intentions.
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| Original Score: B-
San Francisco Examiner
The incredible, surprising design - the vibrant colors, imaginative shapes and textures that make up the prehistoric world - is the movie's real star.
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| Original Score: 3/4
3AW
As well as being pacy, energetically animated and stuffed full of modern-day references, The Croods also casts off any lingering doubt that DreamWorks is moving into the character-driven domain normally dominated by Pixar.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Mercury
The Croods is simple enough in its story and structure that its emotional honesty and touching message will catch you quite off-guard.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Laramie Movie Scope
This is a very nice little family film with excellent visuals and interesting characters.
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| Original Score: C+
ABC Radio Brisbane
The voices have also been well chosen and you're likely to enjoy the entertaining squabbles between Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.
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| Original Score: B
The Standard
You won't learn anything about life 100,000 years ago, but you may enjoy yourself.
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| Original Score: 3/5
SSG Syndicate
Energetic slapstick, aimed at indiscriminating youngsters who will want to buy lots of Crood toys.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It's not only entertaining, it's pretty darn visually impressive. On occasion, it's even rather touching.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
tonymacklin.net
No wonder it's doing so well at the box office.
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| Original Score: 3.0/5
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
A witty and slapstick-laced script by writers-directors Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco, some flawless 3-D work and solid character and beautiful background animation combine for an entertaining 92 minutes.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The Vine
Dreamworks have done far more than simply dust off The Flintstones 2.0; The Croods may not yet be a household name, but with their personal brand of buffoonery and heart, you'll be wanting an introduction.
Flicks.co.nz
This is pure DreamWorks magic.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Shared Darkness
The Croods tells a pleasant story about family, the utility of man, and letting go -- all of which I will demonstrate in review with caveman-speak.
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| Original Score: B
Movies.com
It's the Ice Age that isn't terrible and Cage, as the voice of papa caveman Grug, delivers his most interesting, energized, mainstream performance since... well, since I forget.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
The humor's classic or prehistoric, depending on your tolerance for slapstick. The 3D animation is state of the art. And the life lessons are all too wearily contemporary.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Vulture
The Croods isn't particularly smart, but it has just enough wit to keep us engaged and just enough speed to keep us from feeling restless.
