The Law of Physics in the Universe of The Croods

Introduction

A: Animated Feature Film: The Croods (98 Min)

B. Thesis: Dreamwork’s, The Croods, exceeds the laws of physics by allowing these sensitive, and thoughtful characters to be indestructible in times of life-threatening danger that is too magical to be real.

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I.  Exaggerated Paths of Action, Squash and Stretch, Exceeding Speed Limitations

-Mom: The elderly of the group runs faster than a woman of her age in the real world.

-Sandy: She is a little speedster who defies the speed limitation of a human child.

-Eep gets pulled in the air in a back-breaking attempt to keep the prize egg from getting taken away by little flying creatures.

-Eep picks up a very large boulder with ease. Even for a strong girl, this does not seem as if this could be as easily done in the real world.

- A contrast to the Croods family is Guy who appears to have the most believable real-life human experience and movement.

EX: Guy has subtle movement as a reaction to the Croods wildly behavior when they first meet, fear but in a non-exaggerated way.

II. Cheating an otherwise deadly fate

- Grug falls at extreme heights, gets hit many times in the face with rocks (SnapShots)

-Entire family falls a great distance onto the ground after escaping a threatening cat-like creature and survives.

-Mom gets thrown in the air for a heads and tails coin toss smacks very hard into the ground and does not shatter every bone in her body. An allegedly fragile body survives the force of gravity and the opposing force of the ground.

III. Unlikely Creatures and Environment: Proportions, Body Structures that would affect Balance.

- Grug has tiny legs in comparison to his large upper body. It would be unlikely that he could stand up on his two legs due to his center of gravity

- Creatures that appear to be inanimate objects move without and apparent force acting on an otherwise object/creature at rest.

EX: family grabs onto the trunk of a “tree” and the tree begins to move in the fashion of an Ostrich like creature but still maintains the look and feel of a tree.

IV. Conclusion:

The Croods does have traces of real-life movement and believability of balance an weight,  however, to convey the story and give the characters history, several laws of physics were deviated from to create such a world.