Co-writers and -directors of new DreamWorks Animation 3D film, "The Croods," Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco, are sitting in their cluttered offices at the company's Glendale campus littered with unopened boxes, posters of their movie, a pile of too-cute-to-resist furry brown plush toys of one of the film’s most kid-friendly characters, a sloth called Belt. "We look like hoarders, we haven’t really had much time to tidy up," laughs De Micco.
Not surprising, as the two filmmakers have been traveling the country for the past two months promoting their new animated feature about a prehistoric family coming to terms with a changing and dangerous world. This is no Flintstones family with stone-age mod cons, but a brutish first family surviving in a hostile environment of large predators and tectonic shifts headed by family patriarch Grug (voiced by Nicholas Cage) who lives by the motto, “Fear is good; change is bad.”
