The Croods

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The Croods

During the prehistoric era Crood members of the family are among the last survivors of their species and live well protected in their home cave. Once the home of the Croods was destroyed, they are forced to leave their safe place. In search of a new home they get into wild adventures and get to see stunning plants, animals and extraordinary places. One day meet Grug (German voice: Uwe Ochsenknecht), patriarch of the family, a stranger name Guy (Kostya Ullmann). To the chagrin Grugs bright young nomad in love with Grugs daughter Eep (Janin Reinhardt). The ancient cave safety of domestic moves further and further away, but gradually realize Grug and his family, the loss also contributes an exciting new beginning in the ...

"How to Train Your Dragon" has been withdrawn at the Oscars in 2011 against the equally great "Toy Story 3" the shorter, but more advanced the computer animation genre still has the Viking adventure from the DreamWorks. Finally director Chris Sanders created just with the flight deposits some action sequences that were fulminant and kinetic than what it was previously seen in animated films. This approach has been taken Sanders and his new co-director Kirk De Micco with "The Croods" now consistently. In the 3D Stone Age adventure, there are some so brilliantly staged chase scenes that it in the cinema in 2013 probably at best yet from Justin Lin's "Fast & Furious 6 could be "topped off. And that's not all: "The Croods" feels as if the makers would get a free pass to be allowed to be creative limitless and without regard to nothing simply and from that straight for a big-budget Hollywood. makes the film unprecedented gift directing duo for blessing the audience extensively use!

The Croods are the only Stone Age family in the local area that has not been trampled by dinosaurs or eaten by giant snakes. And this is mainly due to the strict rules of family patriarch Grug (voice of Nicolas Cage, German Uwe Ochsenknecht): When the darkness falls, a large stone is rolled from the cave entrance and no one may need to go out. Moreover, it is always the motto: Never have no fear! Grugs woken daughter Eep (Emma Stone, Janin Reinhardt), however, did not agree always to live in the dark and full of fear. But with her curiosity, she pushes the rest of her family on nothing but incomprehension. Only when the continents split, break up the soil and the cave collapses, the family their old rules must, willy-nilly throw overboard and embarks on an adventurous search for a new housing ...

The Croods

The makers lose any time. After a short but already the dry humor of the film anticipatory 2D prologue a harmless Eierklau quickly degenerates into a full-blown chase from - including football-match atmosphere and all sorts of creative designtem prehistoric animals. As in "Train Your Dragon made" (and before that "Wall-E") also in "The Croods" the legendary Roger Deakins (2013 as a cinematographer of "Skyfall" the total tenth Oscar nomination) helped illuminate the animated sets as that they act as vividly as in a real well photographed film. And it pays off: Before "The Croods" would have the most of "The Incredibles" or "Kung Fu Panda 2" claims, but the coup of Sanders and De Micco actually offers some of the most impressive action sequences of the movie year it. is nice to see that the big studios are increasingly not only on the quality of the animation (which is also in "The Croods" immaculate) focus, but rather on the quality of the production.

And then it suddenly becomes really crazy: Breaking the continents once apart, the Croods leave her supposedly safe desert cookies behind and beat instead by a colorful, crazy jungle world in the style of James Cameron's "Avatar" There is not only elephants mice, but. whales on legs that are nibbled by piranha birds in seconds to the bone. From here the film seems as if stone-age research on LSD (at least!) script and animations responsible. This also fits the often extremely dry humor including Zalando ARTIGEM shoe screams and a grandma who is thrown into the air without batting an eyelid as coin set for a round of "head or butt."

The Croods

In the spectacular finale, indeed more and more Grug crystallized out as the real hero of the story, but it's mostly his daughter Eep that drives the adventure with their curiosity. Following the release of the first trailer were therefore already repeatedly comparisons protagonist of Pixar's "Brave - Highlands" employed - and they are certainly not completely be dismissed out of hand, but the end is "The Croods" even a bit. courageous: Even if Merida with bow and arrow shoot their freedom, she is with her long curly hair just still a little sweet girl, the ohnenhin no one can blame his rebelliousness. With its super-wide shoulders and almost all of its triangular body is Eep - despite their attractive spokeswoman Emma Stone ("The Amazing Spider-Man") - however not necessarily pretty, at least not in the traditional sense, the marketing department should have prepared for the sleepless nights, but the.. Viewers leave the theater anyway with the feeling that the makers of "The Croods" everything was allowed to. And this confidence they pay back countless times with her exuberant creative film.

Conclusion: With its brilliant action sequences, its freaky characters designs, his dry humor and his ever tons of creative ideas turns out to be "The Croods" an extremely entertaining family entertainment and a midnight movie cult, with considerable potential in one.