The night before the screening of The Croods, the marvelous animated film about a caveman family overcoming their fear of the world, a friend of mine said, “It’s just going to be a bunch of old jokes stolen from The Flintstones.” I can definitely understand that fear, and I don’t think I could be paid to watch an episode of that show or, shudder, either of the live action films from the 1990s. But the only similarities between The Flintstones and The Croods are the cavemen and a few, small jokes about paleo versions of contemporary appliances. Unlike The Flintstones, which is about a very typical mid-century modern family that happens to live in the Stone Age, The Croods is actually about cavemen: They live in a cave, they’re always hungry, and they’re terrified of everything. Continue…