50 Fun Facts About The Croods
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20th Century Fox distributed it, the first DreamWorks film after the Paramount deal ended.
Who voices Grug, the overprotective patriarch?
Cage reprised the role in the 2020 sequel.
Who voices Eep, Grug's rebellious teenage daughter?
Eep is the eldest child and the one most willing to try anything new.
Who voices Guy, the inventive modern human the Croods meet?
Guy arrives with a torch, a pet sloth and a warning about the end of the world.
What is the name of Guy's pet sloth?
Co-director Chris Sanders provides the sloth's voice himself.
Who voices Ugga, Grug's wife?
The planned sequel was originally meant to focus on Ugga and motherhood.
Who voices Gran, the ferocious grandmother?
Gran is Ugga's mother and Grug's long-suffering mother-in-law.
Who voices Thunk, the dim but good-hearted middle child?
Thunk adopts a 'Crocopup' named Douglas.
What is the name of Thunk's pet 'Crocopup'?
He returns in the sequel alongside Belt and Chunky.
Who provided the growls and bites of baby Sandy in the first film?
The sound designer built her voice from creature noises; Kailey Crawford took over in the sequel.
The film is set in a fictional prehistoric era called what?
It is loosely placed in the Pliocene and roamed by hybrid animals.
What does Gran name the Macawnivore that chases the family?
The saber-toothed cat turns out to be scared of the dark and ends up Grug's companion.
The 'piranhakeets' in the film are a portmanteau of piranha and what?
They devour a ground whale in seconds, and Grug later uses them to power his airship.
Guy leaves Eep what object to summon him if she needs help?
Grug and the others smash it out of fear of anything 'new'.
What does Grug do with Guy after learning he can make fire?
Guy is eventually trusted enough to be let out during the journey.
What is Guy's name for the land of light where curiosity is not feared?
It is the destination the family eventually reaches after crossing the chasm.
What 'invention' does Grug share with Eep before throwing her across the chasm?
Eep returns it when he finally flies across to rejoin the family.
Guy reveals he lost his own family to what?
He tells Grug while the two are stuck in tar themselves.
How does Grug finally cross the chasm to rejoin his family?
He builds it from tar, fire, a whale ribcage and piranhakeets.
Who directed The Croods?
Sanders had made Lilo & Stitch for Disney and paused Crood Awakening to direct How to Train Your Dragon.
What was the film's working title when announced in 2005?
The final title was revealed in May 2009.
Which stop-motion studio was originally going to make The Croods?
After the deal ended, Aardman kept tinkering with a Stone Age idea that became Early Man.
Which Monty Python member co-wrote early drafts of the script with DeMicco?
The pair had been developing a Roald Dahl adaptation, The Twits, that never got made.
Which stop-motion film's underperformance ended the original studio deal in 2007?
The rights to the project reverted to DreamWorks in January 2007.
Sanders put the Croods project on hold in 2008 to take over which film?
That pushed the planned release back a year, to March 2012 at first.
The Croods had its world premiere at which film festival?
It screened out of competition at the 63rd edition in February 2013.
Which studio distributed The Croods in the US in 2013?
It was the first DreamWorks Animation film released under the Fox deal.
The Croods was the first feature shown in which immersive theater format?
The Budapest screening featured moving seats, wind, fog and scent effects.
Roughly how much did The Croods gross worldwide?
That made it the second-highest-grossing original DreamWorks film, behind Kung Fu Panda.
Which country was The Croods' biggest single market outside North America?
Its $63.3 million there made it the highest-grossing original animated film in China at the time.
The Croods earned an Academy Award nomination in which category?
It lost to Frozen but also picked up a Golden Globe nomination.
What grade did CinemaScore audiences give The Croods?
The sequel later earned exactly the same grade.
Who composed the score for the first Croods film?
He had worked with Chris Sanders on Lilo & Stitch.
Owl City and Yuna performed which original song for The Croods?
The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical on CD.
Which Angry Birds maker released a Croods village-building mobile game?
A separate party-game tie-in for Nintendo consoles was poorly reviewed.
Which Australian prime minister compared easing COVID rules to the film's plot?
His 'we can't stay in the cave' line was widely mocked online in 2021.
What is the title of the 2020 sequel?
It is also marketed simply as The Croods 2.
Who directed the sequel, in his feature directorial debut?
Sanders had left to direct the live-action The Call of the Wild.
In the sequel, the rival family lives behind what?
Grug leads the family over it into a paradise owned by the Bettermans.
Who voices Phil Betterman?
He joined the cast in October 2018, after the project was revived.
Who voices Hope Betterman?
She was cast back in 2015, before the film was cancelled and revived.
Kelly Marie Tran replaced which actress as Dawn Betterman?
The recasting was announced in October 2019.
Which creatures capture Grug, Phil and Guy in the sequel?
They are angry about missing their daily offering of bananas.
What name do the women of both families adopt in the sequel?
HAIM's single for the film was called 'Feel the Thunder'.
Which band performed 'Feel the Thunder' for the sequel?
Mark Mothersbaugh replaced Alan Silvestri as composer.
In November 2016, what happened to the sequel?
Universal and DreamWorks put it back into production in September 2017.
Which studio released The Croods: A New Age in theaters?
Fox had dropped it from its schedule ahead of Comcast's purchase of DreamWorks.
What was the budget of The Croods: A New Age?
It grossed about $216 million during the pandemic.
The 2015 prequel series Dawn of the Croods streamed on which service?
None of the film's voice cast returned; Dan Milano voiced Grug.
The Croods: Family Tree (2021) was released simultaneously on Hulu and what?
Kelly Marie Tran reprised Dawn, and A.J. LoCascio returned as Thunk from the earlier series.
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