{"id":51599,"date":"2015-06-23T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/movie-review-the-croods-2013.html"},"modified":"2015-06-23T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T05:10:17","slug":"movie-review-the-croods-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/movie-review-the-croods-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;The Croods&quot; (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the lessons taught about survival would probably actually kill any given neolithic clan, the message plays much more entertainingly (and usefully) for modern folk &#8212; and is likely to actually make you feel <i>emotions<\/i> as the stone age family in question seems to survive.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23fatherdaughtermovieweek\">#fatherdaughtermovieweek<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-croods'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/PRYB-TDkz8WCVPzSRBnj96Ozu_qKZRcPL7tGFHE8QZPSgR8cjo04c3Vw7ixAoJe7a467zBFKSLpzUm33CmX2IddzAWuzd9m5DgMdaqXvtrUUUEtiEKqu4cmkUzNhEolB4UkJsfiJdXbIof8faLUMBT14oeSiqW9MpPU-n2s=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-croods'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of The Croods (2013)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI was really prepared to dislike this movie, but, dammit, I can&#8217;t. But I can criticize it, thus: for subsistence-level hunter-gatherers, taking chances, pursuing dreams, eschewing what has worked to survive thus far, is all MADNESS. Taking chances is only for times of desperation or when you have the resources to recover if the gamble doesn&#8217;t pay off. The neolithic Crood clan doesn&#8217;t have that luxury, but the audience does, so we get treated to a&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/KS6FfV2mBMr'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the lessons taught about survival would probably actually kill any given neolithic clan, the message plays much more entertainingly (and usefully) for modern folk &#8212; and is likely to actually make you feel emotions as the stone age family in question seems to survive. #fatherdaughtermovieweek A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of The Croods (2013) I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/movie-review-the-croods-2013.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;The Croods&quot; (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[872],"class_list":["post-51599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-fatherdaughtermovieweek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127811,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/movie-review-penguins-of-madagascar-2014.html","url_meta":{"origin":51599,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Penguins of Madagascar&quot; (2014)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Aug-15 6:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Penguins work better in smaller doses, but if you just consider this movie as a string of those smaller doses stitched lightly together (which isn't too too difficult to do), it's an amusing way to pass an hour and a half. #fatherdaughtermovieweek A \u2605\u2605 review of Penguins of Madagascar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135385,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/19\/fatherdaughter-movie-week-reviews.html","url_meta":{"origin":51599,"position":1},"title":"Father\/Daughter Movie Week: The Reviews","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Nov-17 11:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off in California on a long business trip this past week, so +Kay Hill and I did a Father\/Daughter Movie Week ... which got interfered with mightily by both Dive Practice and NaNoWriMo. 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