Croodarna2: En ny tid is a finely tuned animated quality film about the conditions of life for children and adults.
Haha, I was just kidding.
Croodarna 2 is a clear, violent and loud animated film about the conditions of life for children and adults.
It's also hysterically fun for that very reason.
The slapstick is so brutal that it crosses a line of what is hard and becomes fun again.
If I gnash my teeth when Tom and Jerry throw safes at each other's heads, I laugh out loud when these cavemen with improbably high pain thresholds fight against flying sharks and snipe monkeys.
In the first film
about the Neanderthal family Crood, the teenage daughter Ip got tired of being trapped in a cave and during a journey of discovery she met the lonely cromagnon guy Grabb. In the sequel, Ip and Grabb are ridiculously in love and force the whole family on a hike to "something better" than the godforsaken cave where they live. Guy has taught her to make fire and use tools in a smarter way and now she is hungry for more. The family still sleeps in a pile and wrestles casually with wild animals, as they reach a fenced paradise garden and meet another family, everything is put to an end.
Historical correctness can be forgotten, but Croodarna 2 is a funny fantasy about what it could have been like during the time when Cro Magnon and Neanderthals walked the earth at the same time. That the gender roles of love story are reversed, Ip is the raw caveman, is a nice update from an earlier story about the same prehistoric time: the kiosk thriller Grottbjörnen's people where Ayla appeared as a gorgeous amazon (blonde, sexy Daryl Hannah in the film) who needed to find "her people" .
This is
for the first time in a long time in an animated big movie so that the girl is physically bigger than the boy. In addition, the filmmakers nicely shy away from two stories that would have been annoying and obvious: about competition between women and about finding a home for like-minded people.
PappaBättreman is a victim of hyperindividualism and modernity, and the comfortable paradise he has created turns out to have ruined someone else's living conditions. Final resources are not the only topicality in the Croods, here there is also a joyful discussion about masculinity. "Mancave". It is, of course, the refined Bättreman who needs to seek his inner caveman.
While there
may be a bit too much of both love-tightness and overly contemporary references to screen-obsessed brothers and Jordan Peterson men in crisis, the whole film simmers with so much humor and cheerful humor that I actually ignore all sober objections. Croodarna 2: A new era is physical, bright, smart, violent and fun like a wrestling match.