The Croods

Unfortunately I have been unable to isolate the single part I would like to highlight of this film. The Croods was a big sensation of the year 2013, and I was lucky enough to go to the cinemas to go see it. Although I thought some of the gags in the film where very witty and the story of the film is very charming but the actual character design leaves them just less than likeable. The appeal of the characters is just so appalling it's actually quite upsetting that something so basic could let a piece down. You'd of thought for a feature length film from a studio so big something like this wouldn't of occurred. There is a solid point that appeal in a character is subjective. But at the end of the day, I know I'm not the only one who thinks this because it has formed many a discussion with other students on this course. After much thought the feature that I think is the main reason the characters are unsuccessful because of there shapes. I understand the reason why the shapes are a lot chunkier than they are supposed to be to, the are supposed to represent big rocks and cave like structures. But I think there silhouettes are too short and stumpy and therefore a bit too awkward. I think this is especially the case for Emma Stones character. Although this is probably the main feature of the style of the film it does prove to be quite distracting of the rest of the elements.

Although that isn't actually the part I wanted to feature, one of the main parts I really like of this film is during the title sequence and later on during the movie, their is an alternative animation style with cave like paintings. The style is very minimal with a severe simplicity with the use of finger and hand hand painting of reasons not to leave the cave and a family portrait. I think it's so successful because of it's simplicty and the way it contrasts the CG animation.