The Croods: A New Age

The screenplay manages to strike a relatively deft balance between its character moments and the comedy-adventure set pieces that are the film's real raison d'être.

A film that feels familiar yet troublingly crude.

The Croods: A New Age takes wacky, weird turns, and yet somehow still manages to be dull and lifeless.

It's a conventional animated movie but it's funny and sweet and it's not like every animated movie needs to reinvent the wheel.

The animation is top-notch and there are plentiful critters, including punch monkeys and literal land sharks (my favorite) - to delight the kiddies..

It mostly all comes together in the end, but you still cannot help but watch the film and wonder why the need for just so much of everything.

The lovable caveman family that is not The Flintstones returns in this breezy and imaginative animated adventure...

It's not deep and it's not particularly sophisticated -- what did you expect from the stone age? As a light-hearted comedy adventure, however, it rocks.

Always bright and colourful in the visual department, but often dim and drab in the story sector.

This movie has bright colors, flashy visuals, a lively story and equally effective humor and action elements. Don't look for any realism or historical accuracy here, just a lot of imagination and fun.