50 Fun Facts About The Croods

In The Croods, which two-word catchphrase does Gran keep announcing to the family?

Still alive! Gran sings it out when the family calls for her one morning, and her son-in-law Grug answers flatly that it's still early.

Who voices Grug, the overprotective father in The Croods?

Nicolas Cage. His Grug keeps the family safe by the rules painted inside their cave, which boil down to his ungrammatical credo: 'Never not be afraid.'

Who voices Eep, the rebellious teenage daughter in The Croods?

Emma Stone. Her Eep slips out of the family cave one night to follow a strange light, which is how she meets Guy and sees fire for the first time.

Who voices Guy, the inventive modern human the Croods meet?

Ryan Reynolds. His Guy turns up carrying fire and a warning he calls 'The End': the ground is about to break open and swallow everything.

In The Croods, what is the name of Guy's pet sloth?

Belt. He spends the film wrapped around Guy's waist holding his trousers up, and one of the film's two directors supplies the sloth's voice himself.

Who voices Ugga, Grug's wife, in The Croods?

Catherine Keener. One of her directors called Ugga more open-minded about change than Grug, and she is the one who goes back for him when he gets lost.

Who voices Gran, the ferocious grandmother in The Croods?

Cloris Leachman. Her Gran recalls falling for a hunter when she was a gatherer, 'quite a scandal', until her father smashed him with a rock.

Who voices Thunk, the dim but good-hearted middle child in The Croods?

Clark Duke. When Grug invents the 'snapshot' by whacking a flat rock into Thunk's painted face, his son asks to do it again because he thinks he blinked.

In The Croods, what does Thunk name his pet 'Crocopup'?

Douglas. Thunk treats the crocodile-jawed creature like a puppy from the start, playing fetch with it and telling it to roll over.

In The Croods, baby Sandy only growls and bites; which crew member supplied her voice?

The sound designer. Randy Thom, an Oscar winner for his film sound work, built Sandy's voice out of compiled creature noises.

The Croods is set in a fictional prehistoric era called what?

The Croodaceous. The film-makers made up a 'lost' prehistoric era and stocked it with hybrid animals such as land-dwelling whales and dogs with crocodile jaws.

In The Croods, what does Gran name the Macawnivore that hunts the family?

Chunky. Gran's full name for the parrot-coloured sabre-tooth is 'Chunky the Death Cat', yet it turns out to be scared of the dark and ends up as Grug's pet.

In The Croods, Eep's list of former neighbours ends with the Throgs, wiped out by what?

The common cold. Eep reels off the neighbours' fates in her opening narration, then gives the reason the Croods outlasted them all: her father was strong and followed the rules.

In The Croods, Guy leaves Eep what object to summon him if she needs help?

A shell horn. Her family smashes it in fright as soon as she shows it to them, so Eep has to make a second one to call Guy back.

In The Croods, what does Grug do with Guy after seeing that he can make fire?

Imprisons him in a log. Gran points out that the family needs his fire, so Grug stuffs Guy into a hollow trunk and carries him along.

In The Croods, what does Guy call the faraway land of light he is trying to reach?

Tomorrow. Guy took the name from the last thing his parents told him: 'Follow the sun; you'll make it to tomorrow.'

In The Croods, what 'invention' does Grug share with Eep before throwing her across the chasm?

A hug. Grug tells Eep he chose the name 'because it rhymes with Grug', and she gives one back when he finally rejoins the family.

In The Croods, Guy reveals that he lost his own family to what?

A tar flow. Guy tells the story while he and Grug are stuck in tar themselves, and they get out by luring the big cat with a puppet.

In The Croods, how does Grug finally cross the chasm to rejoin his family?

In a makeshift airship. Asking himself what Guy would do, Grug lures a flock of piranhakeets onto a giant ribcage and rides it across with the big cat aboard.

Before co-directing The Croods, Chris Sanders co-directed which Disney film?

Lilo & Stitch. Sanders created Stitch and voices the alien himself, and in The Croods he took another animal part, as the sloth.

What was the working title of The Croods when it was announced in 2005?

Crood Awakening. The idea began as a tale of two cavemen on the run, one a wacky inventor and the other afraid of anything new; the family came later.

Which stop-motion studio was originally going to make The Croods?

Aardman. The Wallace & Gromit studio developed it under a five-film deal with DreamWorks, and after the two parted it made a Stone Age comedy of its own, Early Man.

Which Monty Python member co-wrote the first drafts of The Croods?

John Cleese. DreamWorks liked an unmade Roald Dahl script, The Twits, that he had written with Kirk DeMicco, and offered the pair its caveman idea; Cleese kept a story credit.

The partnership that first developed The Croods ended after which costly computer-animated flop?

Flushed Away. It cost well over $100 million, disappointed in cinemas and forced DreamWorks into a write-down; within three months the five-film deal was over.

The Croods was put on hold in 2008 when director Chris Sanders took over which DreamWorks film?

How to Train Your Dragon. He replaced its director and, with Dean DeBlois, overhauled it from top to bottom against the clock, which pushed The Croods back a year.

The Croods had its world premiere at which film festival?

Berlin. Nearly eight years after it was unveiled at Cannes as a stop-motion project, the finished computer-animated film premiered in Berlin, out of competition, in February 2013.

Which studio distributed The Croods in the US in 2013?

20th Century Fox. DreamWorks Animation's deal with Paramount had run out, and The Croods was the first film released under a new five-year pact with Fox.

In The Croods, which battle cry sends baby Sandy into the family hunt?

Release the baby! Grug shouts it in the scramble for a giant egg, and the family's growling youngest is let loose on the prey to do her part.

As of 2025, The Croods was DreamWorks Animation's second-highest-grossing original film, behind which one?

Kung Fu Panda. The 2008 film took about $632 million worldwide to The Croods' $587 million, and a caveman sequel was in development within a month of release.

Which country was The Croods' biggest single market outside North America?

China. It proved so popular there that its run was extended by a month, until regulators ordered cinemas to stop showing it two weeks early.

The Croods lost the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature to which film?

Frozen. It came from Disney, the studio that had removed Croods co-director Chris Sanders from the film that became Bolt, after which he left for DreamWorks.

In Grug's bedtime stories in The Croods, what happens to anyone who tries something new?

They die. In the tale of Krispy Bear, a curious cub climbs a tree, sees something new and drops dead, and Gran grumbles that it is the same ending as every day.

Who composed the score for The Croods?

Alan Silvestri. He brought in the USC Trojan Marching Band to play on one cue, 'Smash and Grab', and the sequel's music went to a different composer.

In The Croods, what does the family call Guy's fire the first time they see it?

A baby sun. The Croods take the flame for a living thing, make a pet of it and end up setting the land around them alight.

The makers of which mobile hit built a Croods game?

Angry Birds. After its Star Wars and Rio crossovers, Rovio went a different way for The Croods: a creature-taming game with none of its birds in it.

Which Australian prime minister compared easing COVID lockdowns to the plot of The Croods?

Scott Morrison. On breakfast television in August 2021 he sided with the film's daughter who wants to leave home, telling Australians: 'We can't stay in the cave.'

In The Croods: A New Age, what does Thunk stare at for hours as if it were television?

A window. Thunk has never seen one before the Bettermans' tree house, and is soon settling in for 'late-night window' and vowing to watch it forever.

Joel Crawford's first feature was The Croods: A New Age; which DreamWorks film did he direct next?

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Crawford, a DreamWorks story artist since 2006, was handed that sequel within months of his Croods film opening, and it earned him an Oscar nomination.

In The Croods: A New Age, the rival Betterman family lives behind what?

A massive wall. Grug leads the Croods over it into a garden paradise, where they are promptly caught in a net by its owners, old friends of Guy's parents.

Who voices Phil Betterman in The Croods: A New Age?

Peter Dinklage. His Phil lures Grug into a secret sauna he calls his man cave and talks him into a deal to leave Guy behind.

Who voices Hope Betterman in The Croods: A New Age?

Leslie Mann. Her Hope spends much of the film looking down on the cave family, then ends up fighting beside them to rescue the kidnapped men.

Who voices Dawn Betterman in The Croods: A New Age?

Kelly Marie Tran. Kat Dennings was announced for the part in 2015, but by the time the film was finally made the Star Wars actress had taken it over.

Which creatures carry off Grug, Phil and Guy in The Croods: A New Age?

Punch Monkeys. They talk in a language of punches, kicks and slaps, which one of their three captives turns out to speak fluently.

In The Croods: A New Age, what name do the women of both families adopt?

The Thunder Sisters. Gran says she once led a warrior tribe of women by that name, and the revived band sets out to rescue the captured men.

In The Croods: A New Age, what has Eep been wearing in place of a missing toe?

A peanut. It saves her in the finale: the monster grabs Eep by that toe, the peanut comes away in its grip, and the beast falls.

In The Croods: A New Age, what is the one food the Bettermans forbid their guests to eat?

The bananas. Grug has dreamed of one since tasting his first as a cub, so he and Ugga eat the lot, and the creatures the fruit was set aside for come looking.

Which studio released The Croods: A New Age in theaters?

Universal. After its owner bought DreamWorks Animation in 2016, the sequel was shut down, then revived a year later as a Universal release.

The Croods: A New Age opened in US cinemas for which holiday in pandemic-hit 2020?

Thanksgiving. Moved up from a Christmas date, it topped a pandemic-thinned holiday box office with about $14 million over five days.

The 2015 prequel series Dawn of the Croods streamed on which service?

Netflix. The prequel is drawn in 2D rather than computer-animated, partly because its makers wanted rubbery cartoon slapstick, so the family's constant brushes with death play as funny.

The Croods: Family Tree (2021) was released simultaneously on Hulu and what?

Peacock. The service belongs to the studio's parent company, and the show picks up where the sequel ends, with the two families sharing one farm.