The Croods: Family Tree

I sat through one and a half minutes and this is utter garbage. The pacing was TRASH, the characters were choppily animated, the lighting was inconsistent, and the characters were bland. I get that this series is made for all ages but this show seems made for literal 6 year olds. Now I'm only a teen but even I know quality. Wow. This. Sucked.

The first season was a real chore to watch but, after getting into season two there is a dramatic shift. Perhaps they just needed to get comfortable with the writing for the characters, or they got a hired someone different, but whatever happened, I'm glad I stayed the course.

I had a longer review on here that was fairly critical based of season one, but after the above experience, I felt inclined to update my review.

Definitely give this a watch if you can, but try to muscle through season one, its worth it.

(You don't have to read this part of the review since I am just trying to use enough characters, but you probably read this anyways, and this)

Barely a blip of change from the movies noticed. The quality graphics, brilliant colors, new beasts, plants and storylines are top-notch and fully consistent with the hilarious and fun movies.

Bravo, and I'm ready for more!

I vaguely remember seeing this was in production a while ago and just watched the first episode. They did a decent job of replacing the voice actors.

The big thing about the Croods is the gorgeous, imaginative animation and design.

Those are gone. They dialed back the animation to a bare bones degree. Trollhunters set a high bar for what they can do and even the much earlier Dragonriders Race for the Edge was better animated. The characters are stiff and the backgrounds nowhere near as lush. Yes, this is 'tv' quality, but it seems on the cheap end. There are better shows with higher quality in writing and animation. I guess Hulu doesn't pay as well as Netflix.

I've watched this several times and although I love the croods from the movies to the cartoon series on Netflix and now the series on Stan, I really didn't like Guy in The Family Tree series. The actor that does the voice over put too much emphasis on the S's which made it really annoying and his character is a little too weak, it was almost like he's a different "Guy" and ao I took one star off for that otherwise it would have gotten all star rating from me. Everything else and everyone else that did voice overs were amazing and really made the characters relatable to the movie characters. If I didn't love the croods so much I actually wouldn't watch this at all because of Guy's character. He just really annoys me in this series and so does the actor.