‘The Croods: A New Age’ review: Overstuffed sequel has heart
twist!”The OK first movie, a whopping seven years ago, sought to answer the age-old question: “What if cavemen spoke English?”The fun sequel, with a smidge more ambition than its predecessor, tacks on, “What if cavemen met non-cavemen?”Answer: hijinks, and lots of ’em.This time around, the Croods, voiced by the strange ensemble of Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone, Cloris Leachman and Clark Duke, leave home and encounter the Bettermans, a posh and more recognizably human clan.The Bettermans (Peter Dinklage, Leslie Mann and Kelly Marie Tran) are a kind of hippie Swiss Family Robinson. They live in a treehouse in the middle of a walled-off Garden of Eden where they farm crops and keep groovy.