History WesternAnimation / TheCroodsANewAge

* WolvesAlwaysHowlattheMoon: The spider-wolf pup and Sandy are seen howling at the moon.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Applies to Sandy, despite being human. She acts like a puppy throughout the film until the very end when she [[spoiler: says her first word,"boomzies". Those weren't her first words. Her first word was actually "dada", which was said in the first film.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Hope has one of these towards the Croods. While it’s bleeped out by geysers, you can easily make out what her lips are saying.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When he learns about how the Punch Monkeys lost their water supply, he confidently boasts that he was able to create an oasis by changing the direction of the river from a mountain... before realizing that the same mountain he used to create his home. This promptly turns the Punch Monkeys against him, Grug, and Guy.

** In the climax, [[spoiler: Thunk throws a rock at the Spiky Mandrilla, [[NoSavingThrow which seems to completely miss]]. As it lands on the ground, the rock launches a branch [[RunningGag right into]] [[EyeScream the Mandrilla's eye]]]].
** At the end of the movie, Guy and Eep [[spoiler: are shown with backpacks announcing their intention to move away and begin their life together. The scene plays out like a traditional forever goodbye moment...then it's revealed they're just moving into their separate apartment three meters away.]]

* BrickJoke: Thunk, while playing fetch with Douglas, accidentally throws the stick into the eye of one of the Bettermans' chickenseals. [[spoiler: The same thing later happens to the Spiny Mandrilla. During the end credits sequence, the same chickenseal confronts Thunk.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Eep's "peanut toe." [[spoiler: At the end of the film, the Spiny Mandrilla is clinging to Eep's foot, only to show that it was actually holding onto the previously-established peanut toe. The toe comes off and the Mandrilla falls to its death.]]

* InevitablyBrokenRule: The Bettermans have two rules: for Dawn, it's "do not leave the wall." For the Croods, it's "eat anything ''but'' the bananas." For Dawn, it gets broken when Eep takes her over the wall on Chunky's back, resulting in her getting stung by a bee. With Grug, he eats all of the bananas out of spite when he finds out that Phil was trying manipulating him, [[spoiler: causing the Punch-Monkeys they were keeping at bay to kidnap Guy and the both of them.]]

* JerkassRealization: Guy has this in the third act while recounting the breakdown in his relationship with Eep. He realizes that he was being condescending to her while choosing the Betterman's lifestyle over his relationship her.

* PoorCommunicationKills: If Phil had just explained to Grug ''why'' the bananas should not be eaten, it would have saved everyone a ton of grief! [[spoiler: Granted, it wouldn’t have spark the events that led to the Punch Monkeys being liberated and the Croods, Bettermans, and Punch Monkeys living in harmony.]]
* RealityEnsues: The Croods (along with their pets and Guy) still sleep in a pile even though they've left their cramped cave for a more open world, because the open world has more dangers in it.

** The Crood's super-strong clumsiness causing them all to accidentally break through the Betterman's thatched walls.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Grug had a banana once and he loved it so much, he had dreamed of tasting it again ever since. Much to his frustration, bananas are the ''one'' thing Phil won't let him eat, [[spoiler: considering Phil has them all brought as an offering to the neighboring tribe of Punch-Monkeys to keep them from destroying their new home.]]

* WomenAreWiser: The females get along better than the males, [[spoiler: and even form an AmazonBrigade to rescue Grug, Guy and Phil. Somewhat downplayed in that Thunk is a member of the said brigade (though the most useless one when it comes to fighting the monkeys).]]

* ArtEvolution: No pun intending on the "evolution" word, mind you. This film shows the Croods much more detailed than in their previous film. Per the norm of the evolving technology, the lighting is far more breathtaking.%%no citation
** Eep's 2D Cave drawings segments now resembles the art style of ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' .

Originally set for a release on November 3, 2017, the film was temporarily cancelled following Creator/{{Universal}}'s acquisition of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. However, it was UnCanceled in late 2017 and theatrically released amidst the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic on November 25, 2020.

* DownerBeginning: The film opens with the death of Guy's parents.

* EmoTeen:Eep looks like one as she writes about [[spoiler:her break-up with Guy]], complete with PeekABangs.

* UndergroundMonkey: The punch monkeys from the first movie are expanded upon into an entire tribe of various subspecies. There are now [[KickChick kick monkeys]], [[GroinAttack low-blow monkeysThunkiters, [[DeathGlare mind teasers]], brain squeezers, [[TailSlap tail smashers and stranglers]], and one that has a very creepy appearance with big, bloodshot, staring eyes (called "creepo monkey" in promotional material).

** The 2D Cave drawings segment in the beginning now resembles the art style of ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' .

* PoorCommunicationKills: If Phil had just explained to Grug ''why'' the bananas should not be eaten, it would have saved everyone a ton of grief!

* StarfishLanguage: The Punch Monkeys, as their name suggests, only communicate through a series of punching and hitting. It’s learnable though, and Guy is fluent in it.

* KingKongCopy: The Spiny Mandrilla is a giant ape that a local indigenous people (the tribe of Punch-Monkeys) have to appease with regular offerings as though it was a primal god.

* UndergroundMonkey: The punch monkeys from the first movie are expanded upon into an entire tribe of various subspecies. There are now [[KickChick kick monkeys]], [[GroinAttack low-blow monkeys]], biters, [[DeathGlare mind teasers]], brain squeezers, [[TailSlap tail smashers and stranglers]], and one that has a very creepy appearance with big, bloodshot, staring eyes (called "creepo monkey" in promotional material).

* BigBad: Spiny Mandrilla, the tyrannical ruler of the Punch-Monkeys.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Crood and Betterman females burst in to save the males from being sacrificed to the Spiny Mandrilla.]]

* DenserAndWackier: The first film had the Croods and Guy survive a world-breaking cataclysm. So this film was pretty much this, where the Croods have to deal with living with other people and a host of invader monkeys.

* HulkingOut: When Grug finds out Phil has been manipulating him, he briefly becomes ''more'' Neanderthal-like, his brow ridge and muscles swelling up in anger.