Watch The Croods Streaming Free HDWatch The Croods Streaming Free HD First off... this is a highly recommended film for anyone with a good heart - and even a few lacking it. The film opens with voice-over narration introducing The Crood family. The animated sequence is minimalist and emulates cave drawings (a theme running through the film) while it also felt like an homage to Dusan Vukotic, The Zagreb School and other 'reduction' animators of the 1950s and 60s.
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The story has a monomyth structure that integrates family roles in at the critical spots (future husband as herald, villain as co-paternal figure, etc.). The first scenes have a specular quality and with a minimalist mise-en-scene it might have been regarded that these directorial choices were purely exploitative to the 3-D gimmick. Good fun action establishes the quirks of a 'pre-nuclear' family experiencing 'cave-in fever'. Father Crood (voiced by Cage) has all the qualities and clichés of a responsible father. In fact, the characters and the story are quite cliché - but it isn't exploitative. Freshness is retained through moments of self-reflexivity (the popcorn pile, Guignol shows) and clever situational puns. The minimalist elements of the staging and mise-en-scene are banished like darkness in light once the family are forced to venture out into the more majestic parts of a fantasy world. It is a fantasy world - with dozens of original creatures and hybrids that make one think of Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Some of these creatures provide strong 'support' such as Belt and 'Duggie'. Even 'villains' are appropriated as pets in this dangerous, threatening but awe-inspiring and enlightening world. The threats are ominous but not frightening and children of all ages will enjoy the show (just keep the kids away from Gears of War Kryll instead). The Croods are cute animated characters and the animation itself is of top quality and the highest possible technical sheen (the luscious fur was the most enticing and tantalizingly tactile lure in the film). The cave-family is physically atavistic in appearance, but jovial and comically gentle in demeanor. The diastema creates warm smiles and helps forge loving moments. The ending is a happy one and there is no Bambi-mother slaughter moment in the entire film (I guess we are past that now huh). Directors: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders Writers: Chris Sanders (screenplay), Kirk De Micco (screenplay) Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone
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