History WesternAnimation / TheCroods

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: All of the Croods are stronger, faster, and tougher than any hominid should be and can topple mammoth sized creatures by simple pulling them to the ground.

A prequel series, ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'', premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} during Christmas of 2015. A sequel [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was also in]] [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103135 the works]], which has been named ''[[WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge The Croods: A New Age]]'', but was briefly canceled following Creator/{{Universal}}'s takeover of [=DreamWorks=] Animation, before finally being set for a December 23, 2020 release date.

A prequel series, ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'', premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} during Christmas of 2015. A sequel [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was also in]] [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103135 the works]], but was briefly canceled following Creator/{{Universal}}'s takeover of [=DreamWorks=] Animation, before finally being set for a December 23, 2020 release date.

''The Croods'' is written and directed by Creator/ChrisSanders, the director of ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', and Kirk [=DeMicco=]. It was released on March 22nd, 2013. It is the first Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film to be distributed under Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox due to their departure from Creator/{{Paramount}}. The first trailer can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVCKy69zUY here]], and the second trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOV86u8Uwho here]].

** The owlcat is what [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] might look and act like if Stitch were allowed to be dangerous in the Disneyverse.

** It's kinda amusing when Sandy, the most feral of the cast, has the most normal name. Second most normal is Douglas, a pet dog-like thing.

A prequel series, ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'', premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} during Christmas of 2015. A sequel [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was also in]] [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103135 the works]], but was briefly canceled following Creator/{{Universal}}'s takeover of [=DreamWorks=] Animation, before finally being set for a September 18, 2020 release date.

* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: All except Guy, that is. The Croods are all stocky cavemen with long, thick arms, short legs and barely any neck.

* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: All except Guy, that is.

Set in the prehistoric era, ''The Croods'' is a CG animated family film from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, about an overprotective caveman father named Grug whose one rule among his family is to never leave their cave. When his daughter Eep grows into a curious teenager, she wanders outside. Encroaching earthquakes destroy their home while the family is outside, forcing them to seek shelter elsewhere. Grug's philosophy is threatened when they must venture out into the world to find another home and brave dangerous creatures. They encounter a more evolved and intelligent male teenage caveman named Guy, who creates several useful inventions, and warns that the world is ending.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Gran (choleric), Grug (melancholic/choleric), Eep (melancholic), Ugga (phlegmatic/melancholic), Thunk (sanguine), Sandy (sanguine/choleric), and Guy (leukine/phlegmatic).

* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Guy shows the family the night sky, they marvel at at it being filled with "more suns in the sky than you can count." Technically correct in that stars are similar to our sun, but seem smaller because they're farther away. However, since [[CaptainObvious they're cavemen]] that haven't learned to make fire or stayed out after sunset, they call every glowing thing they see (such as Guy's fire) a "sun."

** The owlcat is what [[Film/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] might look and act like if Stitch were allowed to be dangerous in the Disneyverse.

* ABoyAndHisX: Thunk and Douglas.

-->'''Guy:''' (clearly smitten) She's ''awesome''.

* LargeHam:
** Nicolas Cage plays a caveman. What did you expect?

* LightningBruiser:
** The entire Crood family. From [[TheBigGuy Grug]] down to [[BadassAdorable Sandy]], they are all as amazingly fast and agile as they are freakishly strong.

* NeverSayDie:
** Averted frequently. All of Grug's cautionary tales end in some variation of "and then he DIED!"

* NoAntagonist: Really, the only danger in the movie is something Guy likes to call "the end of the world" (which the intro heavily implies to actually be the beginning stages of post-Pangaea continental drift). [[WorldWreckingWave But what a danger it is]].

* NonMaliciousMonster: Nearly all of the wildlife. Even the big ones, despite their outward ferocity, are [[ItCanThink all fairly intelligent]], and just like the Croods, are trying to survive. When they attempt to learn and understand these exotic animals, they find most of them are docile and/or tamable.

* LargeHam:
** Nicolas Cage plays a caveman. What did you expect?

* LightningBruiser:
** The entire Crood family. From [[TheBigGuy Grug]] down to [[BadassAdorable Sandy]], they are all as amazingly fast and agile as they are freakishly strong.

* NeverSayDie:
** Averted frequently. All of Grug's cautionary tales end in some variation of "and then he DIED!"

* NoAntagonist: Really, the only danger in the movie is something Guy likes to call "the end of the world" (which the intro heavily implies to actually be the beginning stages of post-Pangaea continental drift). [[WorldWreckingWave But what a danger it is]].

* NonMaliciousMonster: Nearly all of the wildlife. Even the big ones, despite their outward ferocity, are [[ItCanThink all fairly intelligent]], and just like the Croods, are trying to survive. When they attempt to learn and understand these exotic animals, they find most of them are docile and/or tamable.

* LargeHam:
** Nicolas Cage plays a caveman. What did you expect?

* LightningBruiser:
** The entire Crood family. From [[TheBigGuy Grug]] down to [[BadassAdorable Sandy]], they are all as amazingly fast and agile as they are freakishly strong.

* NeverSayDie:
** Averted frequently. All of Grug's cautionary tales end in some variation of "and then he DIED!"

* NoAntagonist: Really, the only danger in the movie is something Guy likes to call "the end of the world" (which the intro heavily implies to actually be the beginning stages of post-Pangaea continental drift). [[WorldWreckingWave But what a danger it is]].

* NonMaliciousMonster: Nearly all of the wildlife. Even the big ones, despite their outward ferocity, are [[ItCanThink all fairly intelligent]], and just like the Croods, are trying to survive. When they attempt to learn and understand these exotic animals, they find most of them are docile and/or tamable.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Grug

* [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]]: Surprisingly, most of the wildlife the cavemen come across, especially Ground Whales.

** While Eep is examining Guy when she first meets him, one of the things he says while being examined is "testicles". Actually he says "That tickles".

** It also depends on whether you count Cro Magnon as an era or a species.

* LargeHam: Nicolas Cage plays a caveman. What did you expect?

* LightningBruiser: The entire Crood family. From [[TheBigGuy Grug]] down to [[BadassAdorable Sandy]], they are all as amazingly fast and agile as they are freakishly strong.
** What makes it a battle for them to survive is that all of the fantastical creatures they come across, are ''fast''. Even bulky Ground Whales are agile runners.

* MixAndMatchCritters: In a contrast to real life prehistoria from ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', Chris Sanders' designs really show this in the fauna featured in the movie. Apparently they're supposed to be missing links: There's a saber-toothed tiger with a macaw's colors (WordOfGod calls him a Macawnivore), a giant saber-toothed rabbit with tiger stripes, "birds" that look like turtles and [[TheSwarm piranhas]], [[{{Irony}} mice that look like elephants, a giant "cat" that looks like an owl]], ostrich-like birds(?) with duck bills and rams' horns, [[AllAnimalsAreDogs lizards that look like dogs, "dogs" that look like alligators]], sabre-toothed giant mosquitos and a thing that looks like a gourd with piranha teeth. The one exception is [[GratuitousAnimalSidekick Guy's sloth pal]].
** Sandy's plaything "crispy bear" appears to have also been a normal animal.
** In addition, there's a gigantic elephant with a giraffe's color pattern, land-dwelling whale-like creatures that disguise themselves as rocks and a mouse-like species that is born in pairs, conjoined by a striped tail.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans Land whales are sort of a]] TruthInTelevision thing.
*** The whole thing might imply that the story is in fact set after the end, and that the hybrid creatures evolved from the ones we know.
*** More likely, it's to ensure the audience finds the various critters as new and surprising as the Croods do.
*** [[AllThereInTheManual Promotional material]] and WordOfGod sets the film in a fictitious "Croodaceous Era", described as the "awkward puberty years of evolution".

* NeverSayDie: Averted frequently. All of Grug's cautionary tales end in some variation of "and then he DIED!"

* NoAntagonist: Really, the only danger in the movie is something Guy likes to call "the end of the world" (which the intro heavily implies to actually be the beginning stages of post-Pangaea continental drift).
** [[WorldWreckingWave But what a danger it is]].
** Also, most everything trying to kill and/or eat them.

* [[NonMaliciousMonster Non-Malicious Monsters]]: Nearly all of the wildlife. Even the big ones, despite their outward ferocity, are [[ItCanThink all fairly intelligent]], and just like the Croods, are trying to survive. When they attempt to learn and understand these exotic animals, they find most of them are docile and/or tamable.

-->'''Guy:''' She's ''awesome''.