The Croods 2 - Plot Structure
- Q1/💔FALLEN: Croods as a pack in the wild
- Hook: Guy’s family-issues
- E1/🛌: Roaming for Tomorrow
- Inciting Incident: Eep’s proposal, witnessed by Grug
- E2/❤️🔥: Tomorrowland desirable, but not for pack-cave-people
- 1QP: Individual rooms
- Q2/🔮DREAM: Croods vs Bettermans
- E3/🚪STUMBLE: Eep and Grug can’t adapt/Guy adapts without Eep
- 1PP: “Tomorrow is just another cave”/Guy’s individual Tomorrow
- E4/🌈ADAPT: Characters scheme and get their way; Cave parents protect pack
- MP: Dinner blowup — Guy becomes like Phil. Punch Monkeys threat, changing genre.
- Q3/💪ADULTING: Dynamics in the wild
- E5/🏆PURPOSE: Couple reevaluates
- 2PP: Giant monkey, Hope trapped, Guy’s dream
- E6/💸PURCHASE: Dawn saves spider-wolves
- LQP: Eep deciding on Guy, Hope’s sleep-pile, men see themselves in each other
- Q4/⚔️WAR:
- E7/🪞MIRROR: women prepare to fight, men accept themselves in each other
- CMP: Fight begins
- E8/🦋CHANGE: they work together to escape giant monkey
- CLMX: couple use their differences to spark a fire to defeat monke
- RESO: Couple moves into their own house, within Tomorrowland