Review – The Croods

I spent my childhood in the age of Goofus and Gallant, a time when media aimed at kids were expected to be educational and morally uplifting. I’d hoped that the farther we got past the hippie days the more movie studios would be able to relax and focus on entertaining storytelling. But if this production is any indication, the exact opposite is occurring. A computer programmed with a transactional-analysis-intensive psychology text could have written this dull-witted tale of cavepersons adapting to new circumstances. Some of the animation was cute, but that wasn’t enough to sustain the movie’s running time. See if desperate