The Croods

The Croods

Rating 6 out of 10

Some of my favorite movies of the year are the ones where I get to take my granddaughter and share a bucket of popcorn, bag of twizzlers and some Reese's Pieces.  The movie is just an extra.  This time we went to see the very colorful if not always interesting The Croods.

The Croods are a stone age family with a very over protective dad (voiced perfectly by Nicolas Cage).  Everything is bad. Everything will kill you.   Can't hardly disagree with him when nearly every plant or animal wants to eat you.  The star of the show is the young athletic daughter Eep (Emma Stone) who is filled with curiosity.  She goes out when she is not supposed to and explores the area.  While out she meets hunky Guy (Ryan Reynolds) who tells them of the coming volcanos an need to get to higher ground.  When the family cave is destroyed the road trip begins.

The Croods is cute enough.  The colors and animation was pretty good in my 2D version.  The story is a little thin.  My attention wandered a bit in the middle of the movie as did my three year old date.  It wraps up with a cute and satisfying ending.  Overall it's not a movie you'll be rushing out to buy the DVD when it comes out but you'll be glad you saw it.