Overall, this cartoon is quite interesting and I recommend watching it.
From the perspective of perception, the imagination and color of the picture are very rich, and the visual experience is very good. The big farm inside Phil's house even looks a bit like an Avatar fantasy at first glance. The big cat mount also has the feeling of Hayao Miyazaki's animation. Of course, other characters are still very American Disney.
At the beginning, I viewed this cartoon as a cartoon recorded by prehistoric human beings. For example, I thought that Eep met Guy as a dot to reflect the legendary marriage between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in history. . Maybe, but not long after the beginning, I found out that this film does not follow this route. It is more like borrowing from the past to describe the present, and under the framework of the story of primitive people, it tells several modern values.
For example, what the Phil family fears is the fist monkey, and the fear behind the fist monkey is a giant monkey that relies on the strength brought by its huge body to eat for nothing. The giant monkey here is the biggest villain in the world created by this cartoon. He is like the source of all contradictions. This is a high simplification of the reasons for the contradictions. Too simplistic - just eliminate the only ultimate evil.
The Phil family's simple obedience to the unknown power with bananas as offerings, and therefore the simplistic act of admonishing the Grug family not to eat bananas, makes people think that what they want to express is a manifestation of primitive people's superstitious worship of mysterious power, but At this point, it may inadvertently reflect the state of mind of some primitive people.
The traditional big family style represented by the Grug family reflected in the whole film is more like the contradiction between the two lifestyles that the Phil family pays attention to individual privacy and more advanced productivity without the need for large families to gather together. Reflects the contrast between the three generations of the previous generation and the more small family units in our country. But now most families in the United States have completed the process of converting large family gatherings to small family division units many years ago. Therefore, this film is more like a reflection of the changes in family forms and concepts in our country in the past 20 years.
Therefore, this point, as the content of this cartoon almost throughout, is actually the core of the conflict, retention and change that appears in the process of changing modern values with primitive people as the shell.
In the end, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens achieved a marriage. People not only have the privacy of small families or individuals, but also have entertainment such as Eep and her brother's TV. It also reflects the fact that Phil took Guy to the sauna to meet his partner. The evasion of this irony, as well as the calculations shown by Homo sapiens, the power of the matriarchal clan reflected by Eep’s grandmother, and the fact that water conservancy construction cannot destroy the environment, human beings transition from migration, hunting and picking to settlement and agricultural production, the independence of small families As a unit, it still maintains a proper distance and connection with the big family - this is actually a very perfect state - a perfect state of not far from physical distance and ideological and economic independence without interference. The entire cartoon seems more like a big platter, with seemingly original events, value output and a little bit of preaching.
But after watching it, you will not feel that you have watched it in vain. It is not an excellent cartoon but it is not a bad movie. And it's still pretty.
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