2013 Dvd - The Croods
Guy (Ryan Reynolds) appears wearing a shell necklace and a possum on his head. He introduces “FIRE.” The Croods scream. Grug snuffs it out with sand. Guy says, “It’s called future .” Eep’s eyes go wide.
A red siren flashes. A stern British voice: “You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a car.” A montage of shadowy figures burning DVDs. Kai covers his eyes. The screen cuts to black. MAIN FEATURE: THE CROODS (2013)
Kai’s older brother, MAX (12), snatches the remote. “No way. We watch the trailers first.”
Chiptune-style drums thump. A loop plays: Eep (Emma Stone) is slingshotted across a canyon; Guy (Ryan Reynolds) lights a “fire” (the family screams); a sloth-tooth tiger chases a dodo. The Croods 2013 Dvd
Kai presses the power button on a silver DVD player. The TV flashes static, then cuts to a grainy, over-saturated menu screen.
The room is dark except for the blue glow of a bulky CRT television. A child, KAI (8), sits cross-legged on a shag carpet, clutching a thick plastic DVD case. The case art is embossed: in big orange letters. The tagline reads: “Meet the world’s first modern family.”
The pop song “Shine Your Way” by Owl City and Yuna plays. The credits roll over still drawings of the family inventing: Grug breaks a “selfie rock,” Ugga invents the shoe, Thunk invents the self-inflicted black eye. Guy (Ryan Reynolds) appears wearing a shell necklace
A silent, frozen image of Jack Frost. The “Rent This Movie Now!” banner scrolls over it. The DVD player’s buffer wheel spins. Then—
Kai whispers, “He’s cool.” Max says, “He’s just a hipster with a stick.”
The baby, Sandy (a ferocious toddler), bites a rock. The sloth, Belt, hangs from Grug’s waist. Belt makes a sound: “Dun-dun-dun-dun…” (a beatbox of “Also sprach Zarathustra”). Guy says, “It’s called future
(2 min, unfinished animation) A dodo tries to launch a pterodactyl off a cliff. It fails. A DreamWorks animator’s voiceover says, “We cut this because it was too sad.”
Slow motion. A hummingbird the size of a thumb. Beyoncé voices a leaf queen. “This May… find the hero inside.” Kai thinks it looks too serious. Max says, “Boring. Skip.”
(Featurette, 6 min) Behind-the-scenes with Nicolas Cage recording his grunts. He rips his shirt off in the booth. “I AM THE FIRE,” he shouts. The director laughs nervously.
The film begins. The Crood family huddles in a pitch-black cave. GRUG (Nicolas Cage), the father, scratches a new rule on the wall with a claw: “Anything new is bad.” His voice is a gravelly whisper.
The family reaches “TOMORROW.” A beach. Sun. Sand. Grug builds a clumsy porch. Guy kisses Eep. Belt does the beatbox again. The camera pulls back to reveal the Croods’ cave now sitting on the shore—a boat.
