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1* AllStarCast: Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/RyanReynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, Creator/ClorisLeachman.
2* CelebrityVoiceActor: It's a film by ''Creator/DreamWorksAnimation'', what did you expect?
3* ChannelHop: This was DWA's first film to be distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.
4* 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''.
5** 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.
6* ThrowItIn: Chunky's colorful pelt started out as a joke in the art department. Artist Leighton Hickman was bored with the drab colors being used for the creatures appearing in the desert scenes, and painted the saber-tooth tiger character in bright "parrot" colors. The filmmakers liked the look for Chunky so much that they kept it for the film.
7* UnCancelled: The sequel's production was canceled in 2016, but was later revived in 2017.
8* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
9** 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''.
10** A concept art sketch shows Belt was going to be ''much bigger'' than he ended up being in the final movie.
11** 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.
12** A sequel was planned, but amid multiple release date pushbacks and an apparent TroubledProduction, DWA and Universal canceled it... [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell until 2017]].
13*** 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.
14*** [[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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