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* AllStarCast: Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/RyanReynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, Creator/ClorisLeachman.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: It's a film by ''Creator/DreamWorksAnimation'', what did you expect?
* ChannelHop: This was DWA's first film to be distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.
* DevelopmentHell: After Aardman and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation parted ways, the story was kicked around DWA for a number of years and seemingly went nowhere until Creator/ChrisSanders came on board, but only agreed to helm it after directing ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010''.
** Similarly, the sequel went through a TroubledProduction before being briefly canned for almost a year. When Universal revived the project, its release date was delayed, yet again, to November 2020.

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* AllStarCast: The cast is surprisingly star-studded, featuring Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/RyanReynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, and Creator/ClorisLeachman.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: It's a film The whole cast is voiced by ''Creator/DreamWorksAnimation'', what did you expect?
big-name celebrities, with notable examples being Emma Stone as Eep, Ryan Reynolds as Guy, and Nicholas Cage as Grug.
* ChannelHop: This was DWA's {{Creator/DreamWorksAnimation|'s}} first film to be distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.
* DevelopmentHell: After Aardman and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation parted ways, the story was kicked around DWA for a number of years and seemingly went nowhere until Creator/ChrisSanders came on board, but he only agreed to helm it after directing ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010''.
''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010'' first.
** Similarly, the sequel went through a TroubledProduction before being briefly canned for almost a year. When Universal revived the project, its release date was delayed, delayed yet again, again to November 2020.



** Was originally going to be the fourth collaboration between Creator/AardmanAnimations and [=DreamWorks=], tentatively titled ''Crood Awakening'', with Creator/JohnCleese writing the screenplay (he gets a story credit in the final film) about the discovery of fire. However, Aardman cut ties towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'''s production after getting fed up with [=DreamWorks=]' ExecutiveMeddling. They've since taken a second crack at a caveman movie with ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan''.
** A concept art sketch shows Belt was going to be ''much bigger'' than he ended up being in the final movie.
** There were a multitude of MixAndMatchCritters cut from the movie, including those that had rendered models. There exists a rendered model for a literal catfish and in the Blu-Ray for the bonus features, there is a Land Shark in the Creature Guide that shows up nowhere in the actual movie.

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** Was The film was originally going to be the fourth collaboration between Creator/AardmanAnimations and [=DreamWorks=], tentatively titled ''Crood Awakening'', with Creator/JohnCleese writing the screenplay (he gets a story credit in the final film) about the discovery of fire. However, Aardman cut ties towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'''s production after getting fed up with [=DreamWorks=]' ExecutiveMeddling. They've since taken a second crack at a caveman movie with ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan''.
** A concept art sketch shows Belt was going to be ''much bigger'' much bigger than he ended up being in the final movie.
movie, resembling an ape-like creature that towered over the rest of the cast.
** There were a multitude of MixAndMatchCritters cut from the movie, including those that had rendered models. There exists a rendered model for a literal catfish (a feline/aquatic hybrid), and in the bonus features of the film's Blu-Ray for the bonus features, version, there is a Land Shark "Land Shark" in the Creature Guide that shows up nowhere in the actual movie.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://the-croods.wikia.com/wiki/The_Croods_Wiki The Croods Wiki.]]

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* TheWikiRule: [[http://the-croods.wikia.com/wiki/The_Croods_Wiki The Croods Wiki.]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheCroods Has it's own cave drawings]].

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** Was originally going to be the fourth collaboration between Creator/AardmanAnimations and [=DreamWorks=], tentatively titled ''Crood Awakening'', with Creator/JohnCleese writing the screenplay (he gets a story credit in the final film) about the discovery of fire. However, Aardman cut ties towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'''s production after getting fed up with [=DreamWorks=]' ExecutiveMeddling. They've since taken a second crack at a caveman movie with ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan''.
** There were a multitude of MixAndMatchCritters cut from the movie, including those that had rendered models. There exists a rendered model for a literal catfish and in the Blu-Ray for the bonus features, there is a Land Shark in the Creature Guide that shows up nowhere in the actual movie.
** A sequel was planned, but amid multiple release date pushbacks and an apparent TroubledProduction, DWA and Universal canceled it... [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell until 2017]].
*** According to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/internet-television/dawn-croods-brendan-hay-discusses-building-kinder-gentler-animated-apocalypse-125791.html this interview]] with ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' executive producer Brendan Hay, the sequel would have focused more on Ugga.
*** [[http://www.enstarz.com/pre-photo/143756/20160220/the-croods-2-cast-nicholas-cage-ryan-reynolds-leslie-mann-more.htm This article]] says that the sequel would have been "the first chapter of society," as the first movie was basically "the last chapter of the caveman."

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