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 end knocked it down a bit, but I liked this a lot.

One of the funniest movies I've seen this year.

The Croods: A New Age scores on many counts with its overtly imaginative plot, top-class animation and amusing characters.

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