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The Croods
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • Kirk DeMicco
  • Chris Sanders
Story by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRoger Deakins (visual consultant)
Edited by
Music by
20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • February 15, 2013 (2013-02-15) (Berlin)
  • March 22, 2013 (2013-03-22) (United States)
Running time
98 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$135–175 million[4][5]
Box office$587.2 million[4]

The Croods is a 2013 American animated

20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco,[6] both of whom also wrote the screenplay and were credited with conceiving the story alongside John Cleese. The film stars the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, and Cloris Leachman. The film is set in a historically inaccurate prehistoric Pliocene
era known as "The Croodaceous" (a prehistoric period which contains fictional creatures) when Grug, patriarch of the Croods, is threatened by the arrival of a genius named Guy, who comes up with revolutionary new inventions as they trek through a dangerous but exotic land in search of a new home.

The film premiered at the

.

The film launched

, was released on November 25, 2020.

Plot

The Croods, a

modern human boy named Guy and his pet sloth Belt, who have made a torch. He warns her of an impending apocalypse
and offers to help her escape, but Eep elects to stay with the family. Guy leaves her a shell horn to blow if she needs help, but when Eep returns to her family, Grug and others destroy the horn out of fear of the "New".

An earthquake destroys the cave and surrounding lands, and the Croods flee into a jungle they discover below their home mountains. Encountering a "Macawnivore" (portmanteau of "

first contact with fire
, Grug imprisons Guy in a log so he can guide them somewhere safe. To appease Grug, Guy suggests the Croods go to a mountain where there are caves, though in reality he and the other Croods doubt the wisdom of this.

During the journey, Guy is eventually trusted enough to be allowed out of the log. Grug attempts to steal a

bird's egg for dinner, but catches a scorpion instead, and Guy teaches Eep how to lay a trap for the bird itself. Guy endears himself to most of the Croods by inventing rudimentary shoes for the family, and other "ideas" which help them along the way. He also talks about "Tomorrow
", a land of light where curiosity is not to be feared. Grug becomes jealous of Guy, especially after noticing he and Eep are falling in love. His disastrous attempts to fight against change, and to come up with inventions and ideas of his own, distance him from his family and cause his wife Ugga to argue with him.

The family finds a cave. However, no one but Grug wants to go in, having learned to adapt to living outside. Angered, Grug attacks Guy, and the two fall over a cliff into a tar flow. Believing they are doomed, Guy reveals that he lost his own family to a tar flow. Moved, Grug decides to work together with Guy to escape. They make a dummy to attract Chunky, who mistakes them for a female cat and pulls them free.

A volcanic cataclysm begins, and Guy and the Croods flee until they are halted at the edge of a chasm where the continents are drifting apart. Grug feels the sun's warmth through the smoke, and realizes that there may be good land on the other side. Grug tosses the others over the chasm one by one, knowing he will be left behind. He shares his latest invention, a "hug" with Eep before throwing her over with the rest of the family. They land, unharmed, on fertile land on the opposite cliff, while Grug shelters alone in a cave.

Grug encounters Chunky, who reveals he is scared of the dark, and seeks comfort with Grug instead of attacking him. Hearing Eep blowing her horn to mourn him, Grug assumes they are calling for his help and comes up with a new idea. He uses tar, fire, a whale ribcage and the piranhakeets to create a makeshift airship in which he, Chunky, and other animals escape the final eruption and fly over the chasm to join the others.

Grug is welcomed lovingly back as the leader of the family, and Eep returns his hug. Together with Guy and their new pets, the Croods begin a new life in a tropical mountainside that leads down to the seashore, where they can follow the sun every day and enjoy inventions both Guy and Grug come up with.

Voice cast

  • Nicolas Cage as Grug Crood, an overprotective caveman who is Ugga's husband, Gran's son-in-law, and the father of Eep, Thunk, and Sandy.
  • Emma Stone as Eep Crood, a teenage cavegirl who is Grug's and Ugga's first daughter, Thunk and Sandy's older sister, and Gran's oldest granddaughter. Eep is the eldest child and is much more willing to try anything new than the rest of her family. She holds romantic feelings towards Guy.
  • Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a more evolved teenage caveboy that, with the help of his pet sloth named Belt, thinks of new ideas and inventions that can help themselves or others. He holds romantic feelings towards Eep.
  • 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.[12]
  • Clark Duke as Thunk Crood, a caveboy who is Grug's and Ugga's son, Eep and Sandy's brother, and Gran's grandson. Thunk is the middle child and is not bright and has bad coordination, but has a good heart.[12] He gets a "Crocopup" named Douglas for a pet.
  • Cloris Leachman as Gran, an old and ferocious cavewoman who is the mother of Ugga, the mother-in-law of Grug, and the grandmother of Eep, Thunk, and Sandy.[12]
  • Randy Thom as Sandy Crood, Grug and Ugga's youngest daughter, Eep and Thunk's younger sister, and Gran's youngest granddaughter who still bites and growls instead of speaking. Thom created her voice with creature noises.[12]
  • Chris Sanders as Belt, Guy's pet sloth.

Production

The film was announced in May 2005 under the working title Crood Awakening.[13] It was originally going to be a stop motion film, being made by Aardman Animations, the creators of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,[14] as part of a "5 film deal" with DreamWorks Animation. John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco had been working together on a feature based on Roald Dahl's story The Twits,[15] a project that never went into production.

DreamWorks got a copy of their script and liked it, and invited Cleese and DeMicco over to take a look at the company's ideas to see if they found something they would like to work with.[16] They chose a basic story idea about two cavemen on the run, an inventor and a luddite,[16] and wrote the first few drafts of the script.[17] In January 2007, with the departure of Aardman, the rights for the film reverted to DreamWorks.[18] Aardman, however, continued experimenting with the idea of a Stone Age-themed story into Early Man, which would eventually be released in 2018.

In March 2007, Chris Sanders, writer and director of Lilo & Stitch, joined DreamWorks to direct the film, with intentions to significantly rewrite the script.[19] In September 2008, it was reported that Sanders took over How to Train Your Dragon putting Crood Awakening on hold,[20] and thus postponing its original schedule for a year to a then planned March 2012.[21] The film's final title, The Croods, was revealed in May 2009, along with new co-director, Kirk DeMicco.[22] In March 2011, the film got another delay, being pushed back a year to March 1, 2013,[23] and finally settled at March 22.[24]

Release

Theatrical

The Croods had its

Oriental DreamWorks, a film production and distribution company founded in 2012 by DreamWorks Animation and Chinese investment companies.[26]

Home media

The Croods was released on

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
in the United Kingdom in 2021.

Reception

Box office

The Croods grossed $187.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $400 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $587.2 million.[4] Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $106.5 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.[5] It is the eleventh highest grossing 2013 film, and the fourth highest grossing 2013 animated film (behind Frozen, Despicable Me 2, and Monsters University). It became the second highest grossing original DreamWorks Animation film, behind Kung Fu Panda.[29] As of September 2023, it is the 188th-highest-grossing film, and the 40th-highest-grossing animated film.[4]

In North America, the film earned $11.6 million on its opening day.[30] On its opening weekend, the film topped the box office with $43.6 million from 4,046 locations, a vast improvement over the DreamWorks Animation's directly preceding release Rise of the Guardians,[31] yet still below some of the studio's other original films, like Megamind and How to Train Your Dragon.[32]

Outside North America, the film topped the box office during its first weekend with $62.4 million (including previews from the previous weekend).[33] It opened at number one in 54 countries,[10] with the biggest openings achieved in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta ($8.08 million), Russia and the CIS ($7.82 million), China ($6.34 million), and Mexico ($4.37 million).

In total grosses, the film's biggest market was China with $63.3 million,[34] becoming the highest grossing original animated film, surpassing DreamWorks Animation's film Kung Fu Panda.[35] In addition, the film earned $43.1 million in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta, $28.6 million in Russia and the CIS, $27.7 million in Mexico, and $23.8 million in Australia.[34] Earning a total of $400 million,[36] it is the highest grossing 2013 film distributed by 20th Century Fox.[37]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 145 reviews, with an average score of 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "While it may not be as (ahem) evolved as the best modern animated fare, The Croods will prove solidly entertaining for families seeking a fast-paced, funny cartoon adventure."[38] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[39] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[40]

Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying, "A visually dazzling animated adventure with a well chosen voice cast is hampered by lackluster humor and a meandering story."[41] Tom Russo of The Boston Globe gave the film two and a half out of four, saying, "Had the movie figured out a way to stay the less clichéd course, it might have helped the DreamWorks oeuvre take steps toward Pixar's emotional resonance."[42]

Keith Staskiewicz of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C+, and wrote in his review, "A handful of adrenalizing sequences of animated anarchy can't save this story from feeling overly primitive."[43] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film, "Further back on the evolutionary chain than the Flintstones, and also lagging in the comedy stakes, this sweet Stone Age clan nonetheless will captivate the youngsters."[44] Leslie Felperin of Variety found that, "The main problem with the film is that the script simply isn't very funny, and its various subplots never quite mesh satisfyingly together."[45]

Tirdad Derakhshani of

Film.com gave the film a B, saying "How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch are completely indicative of the experience you'll have with The Croods, which is to say a supremely positive one."[48]

Paul Asay of Plugged In gave the film a positive review, stating "The Croods is, first and foremost, Grug’s story. And it’s one I think an awful lot of fathers might relate to...I should say that there’s very little to fear from this movie. The Croods, for all its slapstick violence, is a fun, mostly clean and utterly charming diversion - something made for kids but meant for their parents. It’s funny. It’s touching. It reminds us that being a parent is tough in any epoch, but always worth the effort."[49]

In August 2021, Australian Prime Minister

Pedestrian.TV noting the film as an odd reference, due to its mixed reception and lack of cultural impact.[51][52]

Accolades

Accolades received by The Croods
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
3D Creative Arts Awards
January 28, 2014 Best Feature Film – Animation The Croods Nominated [53][54]
Academy Awards March 2, 2014 Best Animated Feature
Kirk De Micco, and Kristine Belson
Nominated [55][56]
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards
December 16, 2013 Best Animated Feature The Croods Nominated [57][58]
Best Animated Female Eep (Emma Stone) Nominated
Annie Awards February 1, 2014 Best Animated Feature The Croods Nominated [59]
Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, and Jason Mayer Won
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Feature Production Jakob Jensen Won
Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in a Feature Production Carter Goodrich, Takao Noguchi, and Shane Prigmore Won
Outstanding Achievement for Directing in a Feature Production
Chris Sanders
Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in a Feature Production Darren T. Holmes Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production Alan Silvestri Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Christophe Lautrette, Paul Duncan, and Dominique R. Louis Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in a Feature Production Steven MacLeod Nominated
BMI Film & TV Awards May 15, 2013 BMI Film Music Awards Alan Silvestri[a] Won [60]
British Academy Children's Awards November 24, 2013 BAFTA Kid's Vote (Feature Film) The Croods Nominated [61][62]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
December 16, 2013 Best Animated Film The Croods Nominated [63]
Cinema Audio Society Awards February 22, 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated Tighe Sheldon, Randy Thom, Gary A. Rizzo, Dennis Sands, and Corey Tyler Nominated [64][65]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 16, 2014 Best Animated Feature The Croods Nominated [66]
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
January 10, 2014 Best Animated Film The Croods Nominated [67][68]
Golden Globe Awards January 12, 2014 Best Animated Feature Film The Croods Nominated [69]
Golden Reel Awards
February 16, 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Animated Feature Film Randy Thom and Jonathan Null Nominated [70][71]
Houston Film Critics Society Awards
December 15, 2013 Best Animated Film The Croods Nominated [72][73]
International Film Music Critics Association Awards
February 20, 2014 Best Original Score for an Animated Film Alan Silvestri Nominated [74][75]
Movieguide Awards February 7, 2014 Best Movie for Families The Croods Nominated [76][77]
Producers Guild of America Awards January 19, 2014 Best Animated Motion Picture Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell Nominated [78]
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
December 11, 2013 Best Animated Film The Croods Nominated [79][80]
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
December 15, 2013
Best Animated Feature
The Croods Nominated [81][82]
Satellite Awards February 23, 2014 Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature The Croods Nominated [83][84]
Best Visual Effects Markus Manninen and Matt Baer Nominated
Outstanding Youth Blu-Ray/DVD The Croods Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
December 17, 2013 Best Animated Feature The Croods Runner-up[b] [85]
Visual Effects Society Awards
February 12, 2014
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Jane Hartwell,
Kirk De Micco
, and Markus Manninen
Nominated [86][87]
Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature Line Andersen, Won Young Byun, Koji Morihiro, and Chris De St. Jeor for "Eep" Nominated
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Jonathan Harman, Violette Sacre-Shaik, Benjamin Venancie, and Philippe Brochu for "The Maze" Nominated
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Jason Mayer, and Michael Losure Nominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
December 9, 2013 Best Animated Feature The Croods Nominated [88][89]
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
December 16, 2013 Best Animated Females The Croods Runner-up [90][91]

Soundtrack

The Croods
Film score by
ReleasedMarch 15, 2013
Recorded2012
GenreScore
Length70:16
LabelRelativity Music Group
Alan Silvestri film scores chronology
Flight
(2012)
The Croods
(2013)
RED 2

(2013)

Alan Silvestri, who previously worked with co-director Chris Sanders on Lilo & Stitch (2002), composed the film's original score, which was released digitally on March 15, 2013, by Relativity Music Group,[92] and on CD on March 26, 2013, by Sony Classical. The soundtrack also includes "Shine Your Way", an original song performed by Owl City and Yuna.[93]

Track listing:
No.TitleLength
1."Shine Your Way" (performed by Owl City and Yuna)3:27
2."Prologue"2:07
3."Smash and Grab (feat. USC Marching Band)"4:09
4."Bear Owl Escape"2:45
5."Eep and the Warthog"3:52
6."Teaching Fire to Tiger Girl"1:54
7."Exploring New Dangers"3:33
8."Piranhakeets"2:25
9."Fire and Corn"2:06
10."Turkey Fish Follies"4:17
11."Going Guys Way"3:15
12."Story Time"3:55
13."Family Maze"3:21
14."Star Canopy"2:07
15."Grug Flips His Lid"1:44
16."Planet Collapse"1:44
17."We'll Die If We Stay Here"5:28
18."Cave Painting"1:12
19."Big Idea"2:34
20."Epilogue"4:25
21."Cave Painting Theme"2:52
22."The Crood's Family Theme"5:54
23."Cantina Croods"1:12
Total length:70:16
iTunes bonus track:[94]
No.TitleLength
24."Shine Your Way (Adam Young Remix)" (performed by Owl City feat. Yuna)3:19

Video games

A video game based on the film, titled The Croods: Prehistoric Party!, was released on March 19, 2013. Developed by

Namco Bandai Games, it was adapted for Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo DS. The game enables players to take the members of the Croods family on an adventure through 30 party style mini games.[95] It received mainly negative reviews.[96][97][98][99]

A mobile game, titled The Croods, which is a village building game was developed and published by Rovio, the creator of Angry Birds. It was released on March 14, 2013, for the iOS and Android platforms.[100]

Expanded franchise

Sequel

On April 17, 2013, DreamWorks Animation had started developing a sequel to the film, with Sanders and DeMicco set to return as directors.[101] According to DeMicco, the sequel would focus on Ugga and motherhood, making it "the first chapter of society," expanding on the first film, which is about "the last chapter of the caveman."[102]

On September 9, 2013, it had been confirmed that Cage, Stone, and Reynolds would reprise their roles in the sequel.[103] On June 12, 2014, it was announced that the sequel would be released on November 3, 2017.[104] On September 21, 2014, the film's release date was delayed to December 22, 2017.[105] On May 21, 2015, Leslie Mann and Kat Dennings had joined the voice cast. Mann would lend her voice to Hope Betterman, an upscale mother of the rival family, while Dennings would voice her daughter, Dawn. It was also confirmed that Keener and Duke would also reprise their roles.[106] On August 9, 2016, nearing NBCUniversal/Comcast's impending acquisition of DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox removed the film from its release schedule. The film would be instead released by Universal Pictures sometime in 2018.[107] On August 23, 2016, it was announced that The Lego Movie and Hotel Transylvania co-writers Kevin and Dan Hageman will rewrite the script.[108]

On November 11, 2016, DreamWorks announced that production for the sequel was cancelled.

Joel Crawford will direct the film, replacing Sanders following his departure from DreamWorks to direct The Call of the Wild for 20th Century Fox,[113] with Mark Swift serving as producer. This marks as Crawford's directorial debut.[114] On October 5, 2018, it was announced that Peter Dinklage had joined the cast to voice Phil Betterman.[115] On April 12, 2019, the film's release date was delayed to December 23, 2020.[116] On October 29, 2019, DreamWorks announced that Kelly Marie Tran had replaced Dennings as Dawn while Mann was still confirmed to be part of the cast.[117]

Production continued remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic with on-site work at the DreamWorks lot suspended.[118]

Television series

A traditionally-animated television series based on the film, titled Dawn of the Croods, debuted on December 24, 2015, on

A.J. Locascio as Thunk, Laraine Newman as Gran, and Grey Griffin
as Sandy.

A second animated series, this time CGI-animated, was announced titled The Croods: Family Tree, which was released simultaneously on Peacock and Hulu on September 23, 2021. Tran reprises her role as Dawn from the sequel while Locascio reprises his role as Thunk from the previous series. The new voice cast features, Amy Landecker as Ugga, Kiff VandenHeuvel as Grug, Ally Dixon as Eep, Artemis Pebdani as Gran, Darin Brooks as Guy, Matthew Waterson as Phil, and Amy Rosoff as Hope.[120]

In culture

The film was referenced in 2021 by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after his comparison between his government's COVID-19 lockdown exit roadmap strategy and the film, saying "we can't stay in the cave".[121]

Notes

  1. ^ Also for The Avengers (2012) and Flight (2012)
  2. ^ Shared with Frozen (2013)

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