Name: Vannah Margaret S.

Bernal Date: April 14 2023

Title of the film: The Croods Director: Joel Crawford

Surviving in a volcanic world is tough, but cavemen Grug gets a rude

awakening when an earthquake forces him to leave behind the only world he
knows. With his family in tow, he ventures out into the volatile world in search
of a new home. The situation becomes even more complicated when Grug’s
family but in particular his eldest daughter become smitted with a nomad they
encounter on their dangerous journey. This quirky, imaginative stranger’s
dsearch for ‘tomorrow’ is at odds with Grug’s reliance on the traditions of
yesterday.

The comparatively charming “The Croods” was the story of an

overprotective caveman father named Grug who came to terms with the fact
that his daughter Eep had to grow up and take some risks of her own,
including falling in love with a boy named Guy. “The Croods: The New Age”
opens with a brief reminder of Guy’s back story and how he became a part of
the Croods’ pack, one that also includes mom Ugga, son Thunk, and Gran.
Eep and Guy are starting their romance in an increasingly dangerous world.
There’s a fun early montage to “I Think I Love You” as the pack avoids life-
threatening situations.Just after Grug discovers that his daughter is
considering leaving the pack to start her own with Guy, the Croods stumble
upon a fenced-in commune run by the Bettermans—Hope (Leslie Mann), Phil
(a great Peter Dinklage), and their daughter Dawn (Kelly Marie Tran). The
Bettermans are the city mice to the Croods’ country mice. They compost their
garbage instead of just leaving it in the wild; they wear sandals and necklaces
and man-buns; Phil even has a literal man cave to retreat to when life gets too
hard. All of the civilization is shocking to the Croods, including its bananas and
mirrors. Guy has an important history with the Bettermans, which leads to a
sort of pack love triangle—will Guy return to the more civilized and predictable
world of Dawn Betterman or roam the dangerous plains with Eep Crood?