Arts & Entertainment

"The Croods": Trailer and Reviews

The rated PG movie is playing at AMC Stonecrest 16 in Lithonia.

 

It's opening weekend for "The Croods," the story of a Neanderthal family. But is it right for your family to see?

Here's what some critics have to say about it:

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There’s a peculiar violence in the comedy in this CG-animated family film, similar to watching a loud, slapstick football game played by extraordinarily ugly plastic figures. Of course, the Croods are not meant to be beauties — they are, after all, a family of Neanderthals. But is the animation meant to be ugly, too?

- Miriam Bale, New York Daily News

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Like Fred, Wilma and Pebbles, the heroes of this cute animated comedy are animal-pelt-wearing proto-humans. Unlike the protagonists of the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon, however, hunter-gatherers Grug Crood (voice of Nicolas Cage) and his wife, Ugga (Catherine Keener), don’t live in an amenity-filled house but in a dark, depressing cave. They’re raising their kids — Eep (Emma Stone), Thunk (Clark Duke) and Sandy (Randy Thom) — as best they can, considering there’s no Internet.

- Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

...the movie does an entertaining job of impressing on us what a struggle survival is at the dawn of man. It’s an all-hands-on-deck family action episode just to snag a few precious drops of proto-emu egg yolk. There’s lots of cleverly rendered anthropological skittishness in response to the unknown — which is virtually everything.

- Tom Russo, Boston Globe

"The Croods" is playing at AMC Stonecrest 16. If you see it, tell us what you thought in the comments section below.


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