Even admirers of 2013’s “The Croods” quite possibly never thought about it again until the announcement of “The Croods: A New Age,” opening in theaters for Thanksgiving and coming soon to streaming platforms. And while this latest adventure doesn’t meet the highest standards of DreamWorks Animation sequels — the second “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Kung Fu Panda” films outshone the first — this prehistoric saga maintains the clockwork-crafted comedy in a wildly colorful bygone era.
The titular Stone Age family faces new mashup species of predators (including wolf spiders, land sharks, otter-narwhal hybrids, and monkeys that communicate via slaps and punches), but they must also fend off the threat of snobby homo erectus gentrifiers.