What age is The Croods: A New Age appropriate for?

The Croods: A New Age is rated PG and PopcornCheck recommends it for ages 6+, based on reading the actual screenplay. The monster pursuit sequence through an underground cavern with multiple near-death moments, the group being trapped and facing sacrifice at the full moon, and the punch monkey capture sequence are all likely to scare children under 6, though the consistently cartoon tone and swift resolutions keep the overall experience manageable for most children aged 6 and up.

Does The Croods: A New Age have swearing or bad language?

The Croods: A New Age has Very Mild language. Characters say: 'hell' (×1), 'ass' used partially as 'a--' (×1), 'dumb' (×3), 'stupid' (×3), 'idiots' (×1), 'bonehead' (×1), 'gross' (×1).

Is The Croods: A New Age violent?

The Croods: A New Age has Mild violence. Kangadillos chase the entire Crood family through a canyon in a chaotic, exaggerated sequence; Sandy the death cat growls and fights back — all played for comedy with no injury shown.

Is The Croods: A New Age scary for children?

The Croods: A New Age has Mild scary scenes. Phil reveals that a monster has hunted beyond the wall for 100 moons — a tense expository scene that establishes the creature as a real, sustained threat rather than a one-off encounter.

Is The Croods: A New Age OK for Kids?

Name: The Croods: A New Age
Director: Joel Crawford
Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
Released: 2020
Duration: 95 min
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman

AnimationFamilyAdventureFantasyComedy

PG⭐ 6.9 / 102020 · 1h 35m

Joel Crawford

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What's In It

Based on the actual screenplay

🗡️Violence

Mild▼

Moments in the script, mildest → most intense

Cartoon / Comedic

Action & Peril

Injuries & Death Shown

Graphic & Disturbing

Kangadillos chase the entire Crood family through a canyon in a chaotic, exaggerated sequence; Sandy the death cat growls and fights back — all played for comedy with no injury shown.
The Croods jab at the Bettermans with weapons after mistaking them for predators — brief and farcical, resolved immediately when identities become clear.
Punch monkeys attack and capture the men in a rapid-fire combat sequence described as 'kick monkeys, headbutt monkeys, headbutt monkeys, bite monkeys, ab-tight monkeys' — the most action-heavy violence in the film, though no blood or serious injury is shown.
Phil Betterman deliberately weaponises the punch monkeys by teaching them fire and combat techniques — framed as a villainous act that escalates the third-act conflict.
The Thunder Sisters battle sequence involves the women riding wolf spiders and executing coordinated combat moves to rescue the captured men — exciting and empowering in tone rather than brutal.
Grug and Phil trade physical blows and insults during their personal confrontation — comedic in execution, no lasting harm depicted.
No characters die on screen and no weapons cause visible wounds; all violence is consequence-free and cartoonish in presentation throughout.

💬Language

Mild▼

Moments in the script, mildest → most intense

Mild Words

(damn, hell)

Moderate

(ass, b**ch)

Strong

(sh*t)

Extreme

(f**k)

Characters say: 'hell' (×1), 'a**' used partially as 'a--' (×1), 'dumb' (×3), 'stupid' (×3), 'idiots' (×1), 'bonehead' (×1), 'gross' (×1).
No f-words, c-words, s-words, or b-words of any kind detected.
Insults are limited to playground-level name-calling such as 'bonehead,' 'idiots,' 'dumb,' and 'stupid' — nothing a school-aged child is unlikely to have heard already.

👻Scary Scenes

Moderate▼

Moments in the script, mildest → most intense

Mildly Tense

Startling Moments

Genuinely Scary

Deeply Disturbing

Phil reveals that a monster has hunted beyond the wall for 100 moons — a tense expository scene that establishes the creature as a real, sustained threat rather than a one-off encounter.
The punch monkeys launch a sudden, violent capture attack on the men — a startling sequence with rapid movement and noise that functions as a de facto jump scare.
The monster pursues the group through an underground cavern in the film's longest scary sequence — the creature is large, roars loudly, and corners characters in an enclosed space.
The group is trapped and explicitly faces sacrifice to the monster at the full moon — a tense, stakes-raising scene that may feel genuinely threatening to younger viewers.
Eep and Guy nearly fall to their deaths during the monster escape, tumbling while the creature pursues them — the film's most physically perilous moment for the central characters.
All scary sequences are resolved without character death and the monster is ultimately understood rather than destroyed, softening the threat in retrospect.

💕Romance

Moderate▼

Moments in the script, mildest → most intense

Crushes & Holding Hands

Kissing & Dating

Suggestive

Sexual Content

Eep and Guy's romance is central to the plot: they exchange lingering 'hey' greetings, Eep draws hearts and experiences described 'butterflies,' and Guy declares 'You are my Tomorrow' in a climactic emotional moment.
Eep and Guy kiss twice on screen — once during the 'I Think I Love You' action-song sequence and once while falling during the monster escape — both brief and age-appropriate.
Guy tells Eep that privacy means 'you only smell the feet you wanna smell' — the film's sole suggestive line, delivered as a prehistoric metaphor and unlikely to register as adult content for young children.
The film ends with Eep and Guy establishing their own home together, signalling a committed relationship, though nothing physical beyond kissing is shown or implied.
No sexual content, nudity, or adult intimacy of any kind is present.

🍺Substances

Moderate▼

Moments in the script, mildest → most intense

Mentioned in Passing

Shown Casually

Featured Prominently

Glorified or Abused

Bananas are the film's central MacGuffin — Phil obsessively hoards them as tribute to appease the monster, making them a plot-driving object rather than a substance of concern.
Grug and the Crood family eat all of Phil's forbidden bananas — played as comedic rule-breaking and gluttony, not substance use.
Shark milk is briefly mentioned as a beverage served in the man cave — a throwaway prehistoric gag with no real-world substance parallel.
Dawn suffers a bee sting reaction after Eep takes her outside — mentioned as a consequence of venturing beyond the wall rather than any substance-related context.
No alcohol, drugs, smoking, or glorified substance use of any kind is present in the film.

⚡Stimulation

Extreme▼

Moments in the script, mildest → most intense

Gently Engaging

Exciting

Intense

Overwhelming

The film maintains a consistently fast, energetic pace with action sequences arriving in close succession — the Kangadillo chase, punch monkey attack, Thunder Sisters battle, and monster pursuit all occur within the second and third acts.
The monster pursuit through the underground cavern is the most overwhelming sequence: multiple near-death moments, rapid editing, loud roaring, and sustained threat with no narrative breathing room.
Extended action sequences are set to rock music with aerial stunts and rapid-fire physical comedy — exciting for most children but potentially overstimulating for sensory-sensitive viewers.
The film is not recommended for sensory-sensitive children under 7 without a preview; the back-to-back intensity of the final act in particular may be too much for younger or easily overwhelmed viewers.
Outside of action sequences the pacing relaxes into family comedy and dialogue-driven scenes, providing some recovery time between intense moments.

The Croods: A New Age — Heads Up for Parents

The film includes a scene where the group is explicitly told they will be sacrificed to a monster at the full moon — it is presented matter-of-factly as an established ritual and may land harder with sensitive children than the rating implies, particularly because it follows a capture sequence and underground pursuit that have already built genuine dread.

About The Croods: A New Age

The Croods: A New Age follows the prehistoric Crood family as they discover a walled paradise owned by the more 'civilised' Betterman family, whose polished lifestyle clashes with the Croods' wild, survival-first instincts. The central tension splits between Grug and Phil's clash of parenting styles, Eep and Guy's deepening romance, and a lurking monster beyond the wall that eventually forces both families to unite. The tone is broad, fast-paced animated comedy with a genuine emotional heart about family, belonging, and acceptance.

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Best watched together

Children under 7 are likely to find the monster pursuit cavern sequence and the sacrifice trap genuinely frightening; watching together lets parents gauge reactions in real time and reframe the threat, and the parental-control-versus-love theme in key scenes (Grug and Phil's manipulation plot, Eep's break with Guy) is rich enough that a brief conversation during or after adds real value for children aged 6–9.

Family Takeaways from The Croods: A New Age

What it gets right

✓The film handles the tension between parental protection and a child's growing independence with real honesty — Grug and Phil's scheme to separate Eep and Guy is not played as harmless; it has consequences that both fathers must genuinely apologise for.
✓Cross-cultural acceptance is made concrete rather than abstract: the Bettermans' 'civilised' superiority is shown to be fear-driven snobbery, and the Croods' 'primitive' ways repeatedly prove more adaptable and community-minded under pressure.

The Croods: A New Age Cultural & Values Guide

Cultural & Values Guide

Values & Themes

●Traditional family values

The entire narrative centers on two families learning to overcome differences and unite, with themes of protecting family, intergenerational wisdom, and family loyalty driving the plot. The Croods' journey emphasizes how family bonds and working together are essential for survival and happiness.

Community Notes

Some critics noted that the 'Betterman' family's dynamic — a walled compound, hoarded resources, and a belief in their own superiority over the 'cave people' — reads as a pointed satire of class privilege and gatekeeping that may prompt questions parents of younger children are not expecting.

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