Just saw "The Croods" last night

[Bob Schroeck]

DHBirr wrote:

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And a comment John Krupp attached to that review:

The only reason I didn’t cry, is I kept telling myself, “There HAS to be a
way.  This is too feel good of a movie
for him to die.”
Not only that, they didn’t take the first three easy ways I thought of to
save him.

And best of all, it employs half a dozen Chekhov's Guns which you thought were just, well, things in the environment, and it happens in a way that explicitly echoes another character's description of moving forward into the future and destiny... "Just not very well."
When you discover that the original story, the one co-created by John Cleese, was originally going to be an odd-couple buddy flick between the two adult male leads (described as "an innovator and a luddite"), the "twist" doesn't seem like that much of a surprise.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.