They can’t get out by fighting. Every time Dawn tries a plan (tie vines, count steps, remain calm), Sandy chews the vines, eats the counting rocks, and screams. Every time Sandy tries a plan (headbutt the wall, headbutt Dawn, headbutt the wall again), Dawn has a meltdown about noise pollution.
Meanwhile, above ground, the families are at war. Grug wants to punch the hole wider. Phil Betterman wants to build a pulley system with a safety waiver. Thunder claps. A herd of stampedes overhead, shaking the cave. the croods 2 a new age
As the chair crumbles, so does the cliffside beneath the dining pavilion. The ground opens with a roar. In the chaos of falling figs and rolling woolly mammoths, two figures tumble into a newly formed sinkhole: (feral, four years old, bites first and never asks questions) and Dawn Betterman (fluffy, sweet, has never touched dirt without a gardening glove). They can’t get out by fighting