Film: Harold and the Purple crayon
Cast: Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Alfred Molina, Zooey Deschanel, Ravi Patel
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 90 min

This film adaptation of the children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon, written by Crockett Johnson and published in 1955 has imaginative power but fails to make it all seem magical.

Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it with his magical purple crayon. After he grows up he draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world. Once he enters the real world he finds that his trusted magic drawing wand can do much more than what he imagined as a child. But then the real world is not as controlled as the literary one and Harold finds his crayon falling into the wrong hands and the chance of peril to himself and to the world he is in now, has intensified drastically. It takes all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own.