History WesternAnimation / TheCroods

* AnAesop:
** Just because the world can be a dangerous place, that doesn't mean it isn't worth exploring.
** There is a distinct difference between "surviving" and "living."
** And even with those two things being true, simple strength and discipline still play an important part in keeping you safe, and shouldn't be forgotten amid new and exciting problems and solutions.

* CultureClash: Guy and the Croods. Their caveman ways seem animalistic and barbaric to him, while his ways seem very weird and unnatural to them. [[AnAesop It gets better]].

** A giant "cat" with the face of an owl and the build of a bear (Bear Owl).

** Kid-sized sabre-toothed giant mosquitos.
** A gigantic elephant with a giraffe's color pattern (Girelephant).

* MrFanservice: Guy, the only male with an "modern human" body design.

* 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]].
** Which makes this an example of a [[{{Conflict}} Man vs. Nature plot]], for the [[{{Dramatica}} overarching plot]], while the Main vs. Impact story is whether or not to embrace change, and various characters have major or minor arcs about overcoming their limiting mindsets (e.g. Thunk realizing that he can do things for himself and doesn't need to fearfully wait to be told how to act). The characters certainly butt heads a lot, but there's no villain, and even a few of the seeming baddies become allies by the end.

* AlwaysABiggerFish

* LogoJoke: The Creator/DreamWorks logo is painted on a cave wall, then flakes off and is blown away.

* MeaningfulName: "Guy" is basically a synonym for "man", and the Hebrew word for "man" is "Adam". "Eep" also sounds a great deal like "Eve". [[FridgeBrilliance We see]] [[AdamAndEvePlot what you did there]], Creator/{{Dreamworks}}.

* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler: Eep and Guy have a mouth-to-mouth collision when they're trying to distract the predatory turkey beast]].

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Before Guy shows up, Grug is the best at keeping the family alive. [[spoiler: Until they reach the mountain peak, and need Grug's strength to hurl them over the chasm to safety. He later comes up with his own idea to get himself across, without Guy's help.]]

** Not so much as words, but a gesture. At points, the major characters raise their hands to the sun, representing a yearning for lives worth living. Even [[spoiler: Grug gets in on this towards the climax, which becomes his moment of HeelFaceTurn. He even overrides Ugga when she starts to push the family to look for a cave.]]

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Douglas, after falling out of the tree. He disappears long enough for us to think he's dead]].

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* HeadbuttOfLove: Ugga and Grug have one prior to his [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]].

** [[spoiler: Shortly after, we can see that he's resigned himself to his fate, because as long as his family is safe, he's okay with dying. But the instant he thinks someone's in danger, he immediately comes up with a way to get back to them, because imminent death is no excuse for this man]].

* CantRefuseTheCallAnymore: While the other Croods accept Guy as one of their own and adopt his ways for the better, Grug stubbornly sticks to his own ways, meeting the change he instills in the family with resistence or hostility out of both {{Pride}} and fear that it would endanger them. It is not until he gets to know Guy better when they're trapped in the tar and they work together to escape it does he accept these changes.

A prequel series, ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'', premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} during Christmas of 2015 and concluded in 2017. A sequel, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge The Croods: A New Age]]'', fell into DevelopmentHell following Creator/{{Universal}}'s takeover of [=DreamWorks=] Animation, but [[SequelGap finally entered production]] and released on November 25, 2020. A follow-up series for that film, ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsFamilyTree'', premiered on Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Peacock}} in September 2021.

* DoesNotWearShoes: The whole cast is barefoot ([[TheOneWhoWearsShoes except for Guy]]). Though later averted when Guy gives the family shoes to allow them to traverse an area full of painfully sharp land coral. Eep [[AllWomenLoveShoes especially loves them]].
-->'''Eep:''' AAAAAHHHIIII love them! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Where are my feet?!]]