The Reel Rejects - THE CROODS: A NEW AGE (2020) IS WILD!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching! Nicolas Cage

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:42 in the description box and pin comment. Hope to see you there. This video is brought to you by Acorns and Liquid Ivy. More on them in just a bit. Now Oookabuga, let's roll the movie. well done dude that was legitimate and betterments for life yes must say that was a delight gang that was pretty light that that might have dare I say rocked but but before we get into
Starting point is 00:02:20 you are a better man than me oh look out now Robbie Williams I still want to see that movie same uh hey gang listen up if you made it this far in the video Uga-Buga and leave us five rocks on, you know, whatever cave wall you are listening to this ricochet off of as well if you want to get yourself a fresh pelt. We got teas like these and sweaters. Aaron, my dude's got like hella new designs out. There's a fantastic four. Inspired one. Richard's Rose. Go get it. I always get first viewings. That's right. Aaron models them for Andrew at their house where they live at. He does.
Starting point is 00:02:59 He does. Oh my God. You guys are, you probably in your own way had to, you know, live the life that we just saw on screen here, you know, moving into some kind of Shangri-R-Law together and, you know. Aaron does have the one rule at home, no banana eating. No bananas. You know what? But he didn't tell me why until it was too late.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Just like this movie. Because he's allergic to potassium. I wouldn't give him a reason. Anyway, you know, that's on you. And it's going to lead to some very fun character developments over the next year. so I can already tell, but, uh, Andrew, you started us off last time. So Aaron, what did you think? I thought this was so much fun.
Starting point is 00:03:38 I think I enjoyed this one more than the first one, actually. I would agree. Yeah, surprisingly. I liked the first one, but this one definitely kicked it up a notch. No. Kicked it up a hell of a lot, hell of a notch's, uh, but yeah, I thought, you know, at first I was a little concerned. I'm like, okay, are we just retreading stuff from the first movie?
Starting point is 00:03:56 but they changed it up in interesting ways, unexpected ways. There's a lot more colorful. I thought it was a lot funnier. And yeah, I really like the messaging, you know, of embracing change
Starting point is 00:04:07 and like miscommunication and love and being able to work together under different circumstances and a whole array of things that I'm sure you guys will get into. I don't want to take all the points. Take them all. I really,
Starting point is 00:04:20 really liked it. I'm surprised because I've heard of the crudes, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone to talk about the second crudes. Sure. And that's kind of surprising. Granted, I have to imagine this came out during, like, the heat of COVID. So maybe that's why I kind of got, like, swept under the rug because this one came out in 2020. But, yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed this, guys.
Starting point is 00:04:38 How are you guys feeling? Andrew, what do you think? I was in a pleasant mood before. Now I'm in an extremely pleasant mood. And, yeah, no, I really like this, too. I would echo a lot of your sentiments about embracing change. I think, you know, I was at first afraid it was going to retread. I also realized, too, if it did, I was kind of in the mood to embrace it just because of the
Starting point is 00:05:01 timeline that we are in with this film, like, everything is changed for them. Like, everything is kind of new for them that, you know, that they're already not doing. So I would have been okay with that, but I do like that they, it kind of subverted a little bit of my expectations. I did like the theme, too, of letting go when it came to Grug and his daughter, which was a very prevalent theme and storyline character wise from the first film. Um, and, um, and all, also just like having this jealousy sentiment towards guy of stealing his daughter away and his family, I mean, but more so in this one towards taking his daughter, which I get that. I'm sure that's a thing. I mean, I don't have children of my own, but I can imagine that's a very scary thought for
Starting point is 00:05:42 parents, like letting their, whether it's their son or their daughter, like when they go off and grow up. And I'm sure that's a very scary, you know, thing. So I think that this film tackled some adult things and had some really sadistically dark humor which I appreciated um but yeah and also too I really like seeing the contrast between the two families how their styles really clashed I think my favorite which was hysterical to see because like seeing uh the brute force nature of the the cave styles that they that the the the crudes live in versus the evolutionized style that the better men's live in they're comfortable mundane uh, you know, um, nurtured lifestyle. Again, the clash was hysterical. But I like that the embrace
Starting point is 00:06:30 that once they like, uh, learn that they need each other and that like, hey, your way isn't the right way, but both our ways can be the proper way to, uh, you know, in the time that we live in, uh, you know, in the time that we live in. John Cleese got that special thanks again. He had a story credit on the first one. It's crazy. Sweet. I think I, yeah, I like that. I like the arcs that we got to. I like how they at first like, again, I wouldn't want to call them the villains. I guess we could just say the antagonist. Antagonist. Thank you, Aaron. I think we could just say the antagonist, how they were saying them up and, you know, with the whole storyline with setting up guide to, to be, you know, with their
Starting point is 00:07:04 daughter. And I like that there was an emotional beat, you know, in terms of like he's known them for since, because they were friends with his parents and all that. So I think that, you know, adds some emotional depth there because he's got a history with them. And, you know, but also I really, like I said, I think my favorite relationship, even though I love them. they were all fun to watch because you have a lot of different relationships with all these different characters but i think my favorite one was epe and dawn i just love the sense of adventure like again she's been domesticated pretty much her whole life and not allowed to leave this beautiful uh shangri law yeah exactly but i like that she seeked adventure kind of like eat
Starting point is 00:07:45 from the first movie she was kind of domesticated to the cave for the most part and she seeked adventure, so Eep really understood. She had that spirit of adventure the whole time despite all the safety assurances around her. For sure, but I mean, I think like Eep really understood where she was coming from and like, yeah, and also too,
Starting point is 00:08:04 I'm glad that they didn't go the route of, I want a guy and I'm going to steal them away. I think that would have been very lazy and I'm glad that they went this route. They leave that ball more and guy on the parents court than anything, which is kind of a nice choice. Yeah, I really thought too. I kind of I was kind of pretty much off on basically every prediction I made in this video, which is fine.
Starting point is 00:08:24 I like being, I like not, I like not expecting things or things that happen that I don't expect, but it's done in a satisfying way. But I really thought they were going to have a scene as well where Don kind of embraces like what's happening. But at the same time, she argues with her parents about changing up the ways like when they're trying to get her to be with a guy and just like totally lashing out against, you know, the crudes rather. And I thought we were going to get that argument. It's fine that we didn't because of everything that led up to their arcs from the mom and the dad on the betterman's. So I didn't mind that it wasn't there. I just I was expecting and thought it was going to happen. I thought it would have been a powerful moment in terms of for the character of Don.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Having said that, I still love the relationship between Eap and Don. I thought it was really fun. And again, I'm glad that she finally got to get that lifestyle that she'd been seeking her whole life. Because, I mean, the first scene we get, she's in that panic box or whatever. Yeah. So, but yeah, this is, I would agree. This was a lot of fun. The visuals, incredible, the cinematography. They really kicked it up another notch. Like, that in itself was a lot of fun to watch, how they were able to do a lot of track in close-up shots and just, there was that one sideways shot that they were able to do. I mean, there's, I mean, they really up the game on this film. I, I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah, I would agree. How did you feel, by the way? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, this definitely took all the things that I found charming about the first one, round of the out and just added, I think, a burst of flavor to every different capacity. Because, like, I enjoyed the first crudes. And again, like, I find this world appealing, this sort of primeval, you know, caveman vibe is something that I find fun and would be interested in any way. And yeah, it's like
Starting point is 00:10:07 the first movie charmed me with the ensemble and with just the imagination of the world and the fun of all that discovery. But here it certainly felt like they especially learned from like how the, you know, in the first movie, I feel like we touched on the idea that, like, it starts out feeling, oh, this is an epe movie. And then it's like, oh, maybe it's a grug movie. It's mostly kind of a grug movie, but it's also like an ensemble, I guess. And this movie definitely committed to being an ensemble, but also really proportionally spotlit most everybody, I thought. I agree with that. Yeah. And so you were able to have this familiar dynamic of like, oh, it's the culture clash of two totally different groups of people, you know, getting together. And yes, the betterments have
Starting point is 00:10:49 their own ulterior motives and whatnot. But yeah, I thought they did a nice job to, I like that they ultimately made it a story. Like they sold enough of the conflict at first to where I was like, I don't know if they're going to resolve this in any way or if they're just going to learn that, you know, it's not always greener on the other side and what looks perfect and people who look like they're living this blessed ideal life aren't actually that way. And that's there. But I liked what they went for ultimately better, which is like, yeah, they all, even in
Starting point is 00:11:18 separating off into these. these groups. And even when the bettermans are like clearly trying to, uh, put them down or cast them off or persuade them away, you know, again, to their own selfish ends, you can still see how like the bonding moment in the cave could kind of create along the way that begrudging against sense of commonality and bonding because, you know, Grug and, uh, Peter Dinklage, you know, Mr. Betterman, uh, are both, you know, Phil. Phil, there you go. They both, you know, are for their difference in temperament, like they both want to be a good dad one way or the other.
Starting point is 00:11:56 Totally. And I like the contrast of like, Phil really wants some space because he's in this place. It's like perfect all the time. And like there is, you know, a different dynamic that happens when you are just living this idyllic day and day out kind of repetitive,
Starting point is 00:12:09 safe life. And so, yeah, having their contrast was fun, having Guy be like a sort of middle ground between the two of them made for good, you know, argument, tension of like, ah, you know, I want to get rid of
Starting point is 00:12:22 guy for this reason and I want him to stay here to be with my daughter. And, you know, the conflict between the moms and stuff like that and all the stuff with Gran and the Thunder Sisters and everything. And continuing Yeah, continuing on just the joy of
Starting point is 00:12:38 all the interesting plant life and foliage and flora and fauna and creatures and, you know, making set pieces out of all that stuff. They had a really good sense of scope and scale. They had a really great just bunch of textures and whatnot. I remember the first movie had some of those shots where it's like,
Starting point is 00:12:53 whoa, this looks like a nature documentary with like the way the focal length is and the particulate in the air and the dirt and all that stuff. But yeah, here, I thought they upped kind of everything that much more and that includes the visual presentation just like the shots were always very
Starting point is 00:13:11 rhythmic and composed and whatnot and, you know, its energy was always sort of locked into what was happening on screen in a completely what felt like a completely sort of simpatico kind of way. Like the first movie would wasn't quite as dialed up in that sense and I guess you could argue
Starting point is 00:13:28 that like oh maybe it's a little bit short attention span but I didn't really find that here. I felt like it was just yeah like a true rising of the energy to match everything else and then yeah having I feel like the ultimate resolutions that we get to was nicely earned and forcing everyone
Starting point is 00:13:44 into this adventure together to go save Grug and Phil and Guy, you know, made for, you know, a nice, you know, fracture to have two, you know, storylines split off and then converge again. And a brood. Yeah, just like all the different, uh, they did a nice job of like setting these things up that you know will pay off somewhere, but like also letting things play and breathe in such a way that you would kind of forget. Because like, yeah, there's always like, don't eat the bananas.
Starting point is 00:14:11 And I'm like, why? But also I'm focused on all these other stuff. So when the reveal kind of finally comes around, you're like, oh but of course and then there are twists on top of that and then you get the fun of the slap the punch monkeys and all that stuff um so yeah i mean all that's word salad to say that you know this took everything i liked about the first crudes and just added on top of it and too like i thought the mannerisms in this were really nice and i thought the voice performances were that much more plugged into the characters and and like we read that fact in the first one about
Starting point is 00:14:42 like oh man this character was designed for nicholas cage and i've got a kick out of it the first time but this movie I was like this feels like this was complete synergy like yes Nick Cage informed this character but it's also fully committed to the character the rest of the voices are on point like and you know it's a fun kind of contrast to be like oh the betterman's you know carrying on that idea of like oh you know the evolution of you know cave people into you know the more modern man human folk like you know making that one step sillier and making them like new age yuppies like could be too much but i thought here is just like a kind of fun bit for the parents like for the kids they're just kind of goofy characters that
Starting point is 00:15:27 are yeah in high contrast from the crudes but also you know i mean as as much as it is something of a low-hanging fruit it was very charming and you know using that contrast of you have this family who's used to the life of venture who's used to being on the road who's used to living in a tighter space and a different lifestyle altogether comes upon this place where, yeah, they're used to everything being pristine and everything being spaced out and being very tranquil and like they both in a natural way without having to go, oh, our way of life is also applicable
Starting point is 00:16:00 to your way of life and vice versa. They do that anyway and they earn that too. And so when you get it at the end, you're like, yeah, this is cool. Like I believe in the happily ever after of this that they have this lovely place to live, but that they've also opened it up now there's a greater sense of adventure and it builds upon what the first movie had in that, you know, oh, anything new, anything, you know, in the horizon is dangerous and should be, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:25 shunned or or steered clear of. And here it was like, yeah, I mean, they traveled to this place that is safe and guy makes that comment about, yeah, I went to this place. My parents wanted me to go and I found it, but it's not like the end game of everything. And there is a way in which they confront that like you love adventure. No, I love. I love. not dying. Things are different now, but they're not fully different, and we ultimately resolve in a nice place for that, where it's like, yeah, we want
Starting point is 00:16:52 someplace to lay our roots down and to enjoy not having to just survive, but also we need a little spice life in there, and I thought this, yeah, resolved nicely there. All right, I'll admit it, and maybe you guys have noticed during the holidays, I let myself
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Starting point is 00:20:39 ACOR1 compensation provided investing involves risk. Acorns advisor, LLC, and SEC, register, investment advisor. View, important disclosures, acorns. Thank you again, acorns for sponsoring this video. So, uh, this was super neat. And to your point, too, you know, you mentioned how this was even more of an ensemble piece than the first one. Like, even, for instance, Mama crude, uh, I, I really enjoyed her in the first one and thought Catherine Keener gave a great performance as she did in this one, but like, just her character, for instance, like, I felt like in the first one,
Starting point is 00:21:03 she was kind of more like the middleman between her grug and guy and all that and obviously epe as well and she had her own storyline but in this film I thought she had a lot more to do like just going up against Leslie Mann's character and I like how she stood up for her family had that going on so it was definitely like again just like you were saying I'm glad that they were able to give the characters more to do and I actually I know it wasn't a ton but I still I like the whole commentary on like TV rotting your brain even though he's just looking out the window That was a fun little thing. And then with the grandma, with the whole Thunder sister story,
Starting point is 00:21:38 I really felt like they gave the other characters a lot more to do in this film, which I appreciated because I really like it when characters, again, it's tough when you have ensemble pieces because as writers, you go, okay, what do we do now with all the other characters? We got our main characters, what they need to do with their arcs? Now, what do we do with the other characters? Because we got to give them, you know, their light and the limelight, or if you will, their time to shine.
Starting point is 00:22:03 So what do we do? And I thought they did an even better job in this film doing that. So I appreciated that more. And distinctifying that, like, I really believed Guy in the center of these two different flavors of people that are also fighting in amongst themselves, you know. And I did like to, just last thing I want to say, I did like to at the very beginning just showing how much,
Starting point is 00:22:25 how comfortable they've all, aside from the sleeping part and that guy wanted some privacy, I did like that opening sequence with the title, like seeing how comfortable they've all come even when there's conflict and and like they're in survival mode there's with guy around them they are literally one big family and i see them in their new element yeah it's nice yeah yeah it's not fully different from the old element but they have embraced adventure but also yeah we've been together so long i need a little space yeah all that stuff's very natural yeah and even like there's a there's even like a light commentary in this movie about um coming to a new land it's like the common combination of like coming to a new land and taking
Starting point is 00:23:02 the resources of the original people but also a commentary on you know accepting immigrants to your new land and integration and yeah yeah and at least like it doesn't yeah stop the movie to go like hey it's not trying to be a message movie but it's in there but yeah the whole thing about like oh I rerouted the water to make this beautiful oh oh that's the cost of doing that and that's just like one of those yeah real pearls where you're like oh yeah you can make something beautiful but you also have to look at what effect your building that has had on the surrounding ecosystem
Starting point is 00:23:36 and yeah, it's just like a thing to acknowledge that was, yeah, it was like a nice little sophisticated nugget they threw in here that I wouldn't have necessarily expected. I liked it. I thought it was a very fun movie overall. I thoroughly enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. I would love for them to make a third one. I would be done. It's a great
Starting point is 00:23:54 franchise. The first one I was like, yeah, sure, I'll watch another cruise. That was fun. And then this one I was like, I please make a three. Please make part three. I would be happy to return. All right. What do you guys want? Box office or Rotten Tomatoes first?
Starting point is 00:24:06 Rotten tomatoes. All right. Rotten tomatoes. John, critics first. Go. Oh, 83% critics. Just stay on critics first. 83.
Starting point is 00:24:16 I'm going to say 77. 76. Oh, mother freak. All right. You were closer. Audience. You go first. For audience, I'm going to say 89.
Starting point is 00:24:29 Well, now. I have to change it. You're going to say 89? I was going to say a tight 90. You still go 90. Oh, let's stick with 90. 94. All right.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Wow. Okay. We got the under and the over. All right. Box office. Let's just go worldwide. $600 million. That you're final.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Yes. Question. What month did it come out? Uh, let me see. Hold on. Because that plays a fact in my answer. I will get that.
Starting point is 00:24:56 Hold on. Came out Christmas Day. Damn. Came out in 2020. But when's the release. exactly because it came up before March that's different oh that's true after March this couldn't have been a January I will get damn I got to take it back my answer like ten dollars November air you can take back your answer November 25th 2020
Starting point is 00:25:13 ooh okay so I'm gonna say so that's about six months six and a half months after COVID or seven into COVID yeah um I'm gonna say 150 million dollars 150 worldwide that's what I that's the correct answer? No, he's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna redo it. Fine, I'll still go higher. I'll say 250. 2.15. Damn, okay. All right. All right. Let's do some, let's do some, let's do some trivia. Yeah, enlighten us. There's gotta be some interesting fact toys. Oh, so this is Nick Cage's 100th film acting credit. Holy crap. My man. I love Nick. As you mentioned, this is the last feature film of Cloris Leachman. There you go. Damn. That she voice acted for. Rest in peace.
Starting point is 00:25:58 The box op. A veteran. Big. Big. box office opening since COVID-19 pandemic started was this film. Wow. Saving the cinema. Initially was canceled per request of universal pictures in November 2016 based on its production problems
Starting point is 00:26:14 but was put back into production in September 2017. Someone gave them their bananas back. What was the production problems? I wonder. The longest wait for a sequel to a DreamWorks animation film to date released seven and a half years after the first film exceeding the five-year gap between
Starting point is 00:26:30 Kung Fu Panda 2 and Kung Fu Panda 3. Dang. Okay. Kat Dennings was previously cast as dawned before Kelly Marie Tran. Okay. Oh, interesting. That would have been a different flavor. This was the first animated sequel for Nicholas Cage. That's right. Hopefully not the last. When Grandma says today is a good day to die,
Starting point is 00:26:50 this is a reference to when Klingons and Star Trek prepare for battle, they say the exact same thing. Look out now. Trekkies out there screaming at us. I bet they are. didn't see the sorry. But I should have got it.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Let's go to spoilers here. There's only one. Great. And also got the crazy Jack Black song package. We were talking to it in the credits. There's a whole other
Starting point is 00:27:12 Jack Black song just out of nowhere. I'm like, you didn't, you just got these for the end? So the DreamWorks called in a favorite. Last one. The Bettermans represent water
Starting point is 00:27:23 in contrast to the crudes and their experience with fire. The family wears aqua blue clothing. The Betterman's residents contains a cave of geysers. Hope gets the Thunder sister title of Bogwater.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Phil used water to create his land which he stole from the punch monkeys. Look out. That's a good motif. That's a nice little visual cue there. Thank you, Phil. It's the way, a crude's way of water. And we just watched, and then James Cameron
Starting point is 00:27:51 will direct the third one. Crew guitars. I'm excited. Hey, imagine. And then the fourth one, ash and water. Yes, whatever we got next. Ash and fire. Ether. Aetheather.
Starting point is 00:28:02 Yeah, I want James Cameron's Crudes. I want to see that. It would be amazing. Holy crap. I would love to see James Cameron with Nicholas Cage. But if you guys want to see any of this stuff, leave it in the comments down below. Thank you for joining us for this film.
Starting point is 00:28:20 I think it's filled us each with a lot of joy and enthusiasm. And I hope it's done the same for y'all. Yeah, stick around. And we'll catch you on the next one. Yeah, much love. And, hey, you know, Nicholas Cage. I didn't think of anything to say at this part. So I'm just going to stop the video.
Starting point is 00:28:38 The real roomies, the banana bros, the Thunder sisters. We are banana bros and Thunder sisters all of us. Oogabuga gang.

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