Perhaps one of the biggest film flops of the year, Harold and the Purple Crayon takes a beloved children’s story and turns into a desperate attempt at making Zachary Levi likable. Like the film, the attempt failed spectacularly. I struggle to find even a single redeeming quality about this film. Honestly the best I can say is that the visuals were not terrible. The special effects team did great. The rest of the film however, is not worth the watch. This is a film not to waste your time, or your kids time on.
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I give this film a very aggressive 3/10. The 3 is being really generous. I don’t think this film has any real redeeming qualities. The act structure is loose at best. The actual narrative is nothing and there is no emotion at all until the third act of the film. There is a weird subplot that goes nowhere and means nothing. The last 30 minutes of the film are probably where the story should have started. And of course it’s biggest flaw was casting a very grown Zachary Levi. Kids movies centered around an adult just feels lazy and not very well thought out. There were 100 ways to do this movie and they chose the only wrong one.
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