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With every sun comes a new day.
A new beginning.
A hope that
things will be better today than they were
yesterday.
But not for me. My name's
Eep.
And this is my family. The Croods.
If you weren't clued already, by animal
skin
and sloping forehead, we are
cavemen.
Most days we spend in our
cave,
in the dark.
Night
after night, day after day.
Yep. Home
sweet home.
When we did go out, we
struggled to find food
in a harsh and
hostile world.
And I struggled to
survive my family.
We were the last
ones around.
There used to be
neighbors.
The Gorts, smashed by a
mammoth.
The Horks, swallowed by a sand
snake.
The Erfs, mosquito bite.
The Throgs, common cold.
And
the Croods... That's us.
The Croods
made it, because of my dad.
He was
strong, and he followed the rules,
the
ones painted on our cave walls:
Anything new is bad. Curiosity is bad.
Going out at night is bad.
Basically, anything fun is bad.
Welcome to my world.
But
this is a story about how all that changed in an
instant.
Because what we didn't know
was that our world
was about to come to
an end.
And there were no rules on our
cave walls
to prepare us for that.
You're supposed to wait for my signal,
Eep.
Eep.
We've been in that
cave forever.
Three days is not
forever.
It is with this family.
Eep, will you come down here?
You're being so... so dramatic.
No, no, no, Sandy, come back here!
Remember the signal. Good girls wait
for the signal.
- Ugga! - As soon as I
get Sandy,
I'll go back in, and you can
give the signal.
No. But you're already
out now.
I am waiting for the signal,
Dad!
Never mind, Thunk. Just come out.
But if you don't give me the signal,
how do I know you're my dad?
The signal
isn't so you know it's me.
It's so you
know I wasn't eaten by an animal.
Then
why is the signal an animal noise?
I
mean, doesn't that just confuse things?
I'm still waiting for the signal.
Mom, we're ready to leave!
Mom?
Still alive!
It's still early.
And you're
still fat.
Breakfast formation!
I want to see some real caveman action
out there!
We do this fast. We do this
loud,
we do this as a family,
we do this as a family,
and
never not be afraid!
The croods
Yay breakfast.
Okay, who's
up? We'll flip for it.
- Call her in
the air. - Heads!
Tails. Thunk's in.
Positions!
Okay. Thunk, go!
Come on, Thunk.
Way to go!
Take it to the cave!
Release the baby!
Get 'em, Sandy, go!
Get
them, Mom!
Old lady down!
Eep, avenge me!
Thanks.
- Eep! - Heads up!
Hey, Dad,
can we eat now?
Just wait til we get
home.
Eep, put on the brakes!
Eep!
Who's hungry?
Good one, Dad.
Here you go,
Thunk. Drink up.
- Sorry, dad. - Looks
like fast food tonight!
That's all
right. I ate last week.
Two knuckle
warning!
Go, go, go.
Come
on, come on.
Darkness brings death! We
know this.
The moon is full. Bath
night.
- Run for your life! - You too,
Mom.
I don't want to lose my protective
layer.
Mom, you've got ants.
See? Sandy doesn't fuss.
-
Is she still out there? - You know she hates the
cave, Grug.
Please come back tomorrow.
How can she not like the cave? It's so
cozy.
It is a little dark, right?
It's not that dark.
Eep!
Come on, I gotta close the cave.
Eep!
Okay! Okay!
Come on.
Eep! Come down!
- That was too close! - I was watching.
I was fine.
- What were you doing up
there, Eep? - I don't know.
- What were
you looking for? - Nothing.
Well then,
why did you go up there?
- I don't
know! - Why don't you know?
Stop
looking for things!
Fear keeps us
alive, Eep.
Never not be afraid.
What's the point of all this?
- What was that? - I mean, why are we
here?
What are we doing this for?
No one said survival is fun.
Nothing is fun.
- Would you
come down here? Eep? - Grug?
- Off!
Off!- Yes. Okay. I am trying to
I just
don't see why she needs her own ledge.
That's all. That's what this is about.
She's working through some things and
needs some space.
What things? How long
is this going to take?
Really? She
already doesn't listen to me. Hey!
See?
She's listening.
If she wants to
survive, she has to follow our rules.
-
How about a story? Eep loves those. - That's a
good idea.
- How about a story, huh? -
Yeah, tell us a story.
Okay. Can I
borrow that? Thank you.
Eep! Your old
favourite!
I haven't played with that
thing in years.
Tonight we'll hear the
story of Krispy Bear.
A long time ago,
this little bear was alive.
She was
alive because she listened to her father
and lived her life in routine and
darkness and terror.
So she was happy.
But Krispy had one terrible problem.
She was filled with...
curiosity.
- Grug! - Yes,
yes.
And one day, while she was in a
tree,
the curious little bear wanted to
climb to the top.
- What? - And no
sooner had she climbed to the top
she
saw something new and died.
Just like
that?
Yes! Her last moments of terror
still frozen on her face.
Same ending as every day.
I
get it, Dad. I will never do anything new or
different.
- Good man, Thunk. - All
right, everyone sharpen your teeth
and
let's pile up.
- Air - You talk.
I'm person, like you.
Sort
of... like you.
Okay, okay. Hey, hey,
hey,
Hey. Could you... Could you mind
not...
That tickles. Hey, hey, hey.
Hey!
Quiet! I am not supposed to be out
here.
- Eep's gone. - What? Grug!
Stay in the cave!
Wow,
you're really strong.
- No! It's mine!
No! No! - Please
- But it is dying! -
I caught it.
I can fix it. Please.
Please. I hate the dark.
Come on, come
on
It does what you tell it?
Well, yeah, sort of.
-Sun? -
No, no. Fire.
Hi, Fire.
It's
not alive.
But you said it was dying.
But you said it was dying.
-
Sorry. - It comes from where you came from?
- No, I make it. - Make some for me.
- Okay! It doesn't come out of me. -
Make.
Make. Make it!
You do
this a lot.
Are you dead? Can I have
your fire if you're dead?
Hey, those
are cold! You think? Listening shells, activate.
I concur. Tiger girl, we need to leave
immediately.
I don't even know you.
- I'm Guy. - Guy?
And this
is Belt. Cook, conversationalist, navigator,
also keeps my pants up.
-
What are 'pants up'? - Who are you?
-
Eep. - Let me clarify, Eep. The world is ending.
- What? - I'm calling it...
-
How do you know? - I've seen it. It's coming this
way.
First, the ground is gonna shake.
Then it breaks open.
Everything falls
in.
Fire. Lava. I don't mean to sound
too dramatic, but...
Believe me,
everything we're standing on,
all this
right here, will be gone.
We've got to
get to high ground. I know a mountain,
that way. It's our only chance.
Come with me.
- I can't. -
Okay.
Here.
If you survive,
call me.
Thank you.
Hello?
- Dad! - Are you hurt? What took you?
Nothing. I left on my own.
-
You... what? - Dad, let me explain.
You
never let me talk.
You're grounded.
- Eep! - Mom!
Grug! What
happened?
You know what, I am so mad
right now that I can't talk to her.
-
Eep? - You'll never believe it.
I found
something new.
- New? - New is a big
problem.
Wait. Wait.
Eep,
stay inside the family kill circle.
-
But it wasn't bad. - New is always bad.
- No. He was nice. - What? Excuse me?
He?
Well, I thought he was a warthog,
but then he turned into a boy.
Strange. Usually it's the reverse.
Eep's got a boy hog!
Eep's
got a boy...
There was a boy. Watch,
okay? I'm gonna call him.
What is wrong
with you?
- It was dangerous. - It was
beautiful.
You want to see dangerous?
Here.
- Ow! My sniffer! - Okay, Eep,
that's it.
We're going back to the cave
and you're going to stay in there until
you're older than her!
What?
You can't keep me inside forever!
He said this would happen.
Get to the cave.
Go!
Look out!
Stop!
-
Is everyone okay? - Yes.
Grug, the
cave. It's gone.
No.
You
really need to see this.
- We should go
there! - No. No.
No one is going
anywhere.
What else did that boy say?
- Come on, Grug! - Just go. Go! Go!
One, two, three, four, five...
Six.
- Where are we? - I
don't know. I'm not sure.
Down. In a
lower place.
One thing's for sure, we
can't go back the way we came.
Sandy?
What is it?
No, no. Wait. Come back,
Sandy.
We can't be out in the open like
this.
We need a cave.
Now
step where I step.
Okay. Stay quiet.
Hopefully nothing big knows we're here
yet.
Wait! Okay.
Wait! Okay.
Wait!
Wait!
Okay.
Wait.
Wait.
So Dad, just to
be clear, are we looking for the exact same cave?
Okay. If it was me... I was throwing
this out there.
If it was me choosing
the cave,
I would go with a smaller
cave.
Wait!
- Dad! - I'll
take care of this.
All right, Dad, go
get them.
Now you get them right in the
no... Oh man, there.
Hah! I'm loving
this.
Dad, I got this.
Just
stop running to their fists!
Grug, when
you're done, we should get going.
That's right! You can't get past this!
Climb! Climb! Climb!
Move!
Cave! Go! Go!
Come on, hurry
up! Let's go! Come on!
Hey, look! This
cave has a tongue! Awesome!
Okay.
That's one, two, three,
four, five...
Six.
And seven,
if we're counting Chunky the Death Cat.
He's scared of the dark!
Wait, we're scared of the dark!
Kill circle!
Eep!
Eep!
- Cavies! - Cavies?
Cavemen! Stand back! They're
practically animals.
- See their bony,
sloping foreheads? - Yeah!
- The huge
primitive teeth? - Yeah.
The excessive
body hair?
- That one's even got a
tail! - Yeah.
All right. Close your
eyes.
I'm going to have to take their
lives.
No, it won't help. They're my
family.
What?
- The sun is
in his hands! - No, no, it's fire.
-
Where did it come from? - He made it.
-
Make some for me! - It doesn't come out of him.
Make! Make it!
You know,
you're a lot like your daughter.
Great,
now he's broken!
Oh, it's a baby sun!
Hey! Stay back! We don't know what it
wants.
Now we'll all sit here and wait
for the sun to come back.
And tomorrow
we'll find a new cave
and pretend today
never happened.
Isn't this fun, Eep?
Eep, don't touch him!
Goodness knows where he's been.
Dad, Sandy's hurting fire!
Sandy! No! Fire is not a plaything.
- What a cute little guy. - Hey, stay
back!
No, no, no, wait!
It
likes me! Hey! It's biting me!
Thunk!
Try hiding from it in the tall, dry grass!
Stop, please! I'm only nine! It's
biting me!
Fire babies!
So,
your dad, he's trying to kill me.
Yeah.
But I won't let him.
Hold on, son, come
back!
It won't stop. Stop touching me!
Get out!
Eat up, babies!
Die!
I win!
They're not so scary once you get to
know them.
Who are you people?
Oh, I'm sorry. We're the Croods!
And you are?
- Guy. - Hi,
Guy.
Looks like magic!
And
smells like food.
Don't eat it, it's
new.
Still alive!
Come on,
keep eating!
Hey, where's Guy?
- Going somewhere? -The Mountain.
High ground. End of the world,
remember?
That already happened. It
destroyed our cave.
No. That was just
the beginning of the end.
The end of
the end is still coming.
Eep. Drop it.
We can't let him go!
What if
we don't find a cave before sunset?
What if it takes a few days?
What if the birds come back?
We need his fire, dummy!
Fine. You're staying with us until we
find a cave.
What? No, I'm not! Don’t
make me part of this.
Stay
here if you want, but let me go.
I've
got a dream, a mission,
a reason to
live!
Not anymore!
I've got
an idea. Let's go to that Mountain.
-
It's too far. - Dad really has his heart set on a
cave.
There are caves on that Mountain.
Have you been there?
It's a
mountain.
Mountains are safe. Mountains
have caves.
Water. Sticks.
Mom, did you hear that?
I
can get my own stick!
Yes. Sticks. And
caves.
Caves and sticks. Crazy sticks.
Let's go.
Quiet!
That thing
is weird.
No. No. No. It's okay, Sandy.
That's just a belt.
I've
made a decision. We're going to that Mountain!
Don't ask me why. It's just a hunch.
- It just feels right. - I don't know,
Grug.
We've never really walked that
far.
I don't think my feet can do that.
I'll never live long enough to get
there.
Let's do it.
Oh, come
on, just think.
Our whole family,
packed together
on a long, slow trip
across the country?
Days and nights
with just each other?
We'll tell
stories. We'll laugh.
We'll become
closer as a family.
Get her off! Get
her off!
If you're not ready to
challenge her,
then don't look her in
the eye.
Could you keep your big giant
arms
on your side of the trail?
Isn't this fun? We're taking our first
trip together.
Stop shoving, or I will
pull out your tongue!
Do you want me to
turn this family around? Do you?
Because I will turn this family around
so fast!
- Dad, I gotta go! - Come on,
you can hold it.
Sandy, take that out
of your mouth.
- I still gotta go! -
Fine.
- Quit it! - Just make it fast.
- Something bit me! - I don't blame it!
- Dad, can I take a turn carrying him?
- No.
- What about now? - No!
- Now? - No!
- Now? - I can
do this all day long.
No, no, no, and
still no!
I'm not dying on an empty
stomach.
Grug, we're all pretty tired.
- We'll eat when we get there. - It's
taking too long!
I'm grabbing a snack.
Don't do that! He will cut you. That's
not food,
he's a pet. My pet.
- What's a pet? - An animal you don't
eat.
We call those children.
No man should have a pet.
It's weird. And wrong.
-
It's... food! - No, no, please!
Not
that. That!
Food fixes everything.
All right, show me your hunting face.
Not you! You're still grounded.
Come on, Thunk.
My feet
hurt.
- You look tense. - I'm not
tense.
Angry girl who wants to be doing
what they're doing.
I wasn't ready.
Hang on, Thunk. I'm coming.
Why are you doing this?
-
What are they doing? - Hunting.
You
stay away from me!
No, seriously, what
are they doing?
You're got a ton of
eggs. Just make another egg!
Now you're
just rubbing it in.
There. Who is
hungry for scorpion?
What happened to
the egg and the bird?
You know, we lost
'em. But,
when the bird stepped on me
and pushed me into the ground,
the scorpion grabbed a hold of me,
and you know, one thing led to another
and here we are, eating him.
- So, win-win. - Not enough.
Not enough. I need more.
I
need more!
Oh, look at that.
She's not gonna eat me, right?
You're too skinny.
If she
was going to eat anyone, it would be...
Mom! She locked her jaw!
Stay away! You sick old monster!
Hurry! Put the stick in her mouth!
Hold her still. Use a rock.
Would you just hit her legs?
Why are you rolling away?
I
just want something to eat!
You had bug
for dinner. Plenty of bug!
Please! I'll
let you help me hunt.
Really?
Don't wait on me!
Tell my
story.
Okay.
- What do you
call this? - A trap.
- What is the
deal? - Well...
How long have you been
alone?
So what do we do?
How's your acting?