The Croods. You saw the trailer, think the movie
looks okay? It will be, think it looks dumb? It will be. It’s a kid’s show, so
it’s difficult to be impressed because it’s not really gonna blow you away with
anything, but then again it never says it will or even really tries. It just is
what it is, and those kind of movies are good to have. As much as I love The
Iron Giant, sometimes you gotta give emotional kid’s movies a break, am I
right? I mean, you can only watch The Iron Giant commit suicide so many times
before you need to watch something like The Croods.
The Croods is a good movie. I can’t really find anything
about it that would make it a bad kid’s movie.
The effects of the movie was the first thing that stuck
out. It looks really good, I was especially impressed with the water and how it
looked. The jokes in the movie – I found – were pretty good, and I definitely
was laughing more than my kids were, which I kind of took to mean a bad thing.
It’s a kid’s movie and they’re not even really laughing at it. I thought the
little girl who was like some sort of wild dog was hilarious, and the slapstick
comedy going on between the family at times was pretty funny too, but again my
kids never laughed or even really reacted to any of it.
The only thing they reacted to was the sloth thing that I
think his name was Belt? My kids freaking loved that guy and laughed
hysterically whenever he was saying something it showed him reacting to
something. I had to agree, he was pretty funny.
The monsters of the movie
were all so original that they were pretty interesting. I’m not sure why they
stuck with cave people and the continents breaking apart, and then go on to
show all these monsters that are so completely out of nowhere. There are no
dinosaurs or anything else that even remotely has anything to do with cavemen,
but I’m not gonna complain too much because the monsters they do show were
pretty cool and not what you’d expect, so that was a pretty cool little
surprise.
Of course with all movies, it helps if there’s something
you can relate to. Having a daughter of my own who is still very young, I found
myself several times through out the movie thinking of her and having to let
her go as she gets older. I didn’t like even the idea of doing such a thing so
I could easily relate to the father in the movie and how threatened he was by
the new younger guy who was starting to become more important in his daughter’s
eyes. The theme of the movie really struck a chord with me but I’m a sucker for
a sad scene in any movie. Still, I was not expecting to be close to tears when
the father, after having thrown his whole family to safety has to stay behind,
and at the end draws pictures of his family on the cave wall and imagines them
all as he remembered them. It was really sad and well done enough that it was
emotional.
A good movie, maybe a bit better than I expected – but not
much.
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