Way back in 2013 (which almost feels like the stone age the way the years following it have dragged on), DreamWorks Animation released The Croods, about a stone-age family trying to adapt when their whole world changes. After a difficult development process (the film was cancelled at least once), sequel The Croods 2: A New Age is finally headed to screens. Hopefully... See the first trailer.
Reuniting the original voice cast of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman and Clark Duke, the film picks up the prehistoric pack as they face something that will shake their group to its core and make them reconsider everything they hold true: another family.
The Croods need a new place to live. So, the first prehistoric family sets off into the world in search of a safer place to call home. When they discover an idyllic walled-in paradise that meets all their needs, they think their problems are solved … except for one thing. Another family already lives there: the Bettermans.
The Bettermans (emphasis on the “better”) — with their elaborate tree house, amazing inventions and irrigated acres of fresh produce – are a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. When they take the Croods in as the world’s first houseguests, it isn’t long before tensions reach a breaking point.
Just when all seems lost, a new threat will propel both families on an epic adventure outside the safety of the wall, one that will force them to embrace their differences, draw strength from each other and forge a future together...
Leslie Mann, Peter Dinklage and Kelly Marie Tran are playing the Bettermans, and with Joel Crawford in the director's chair, the film is currently aiming at a 25 November cinema release in the US. We'll see if it holds on to that, especially with conspicuous use of the Peacock streaming service logo on the Stateside trailer. UK audiences currently have to wait until 21 February to see the movie.