Film critic Jonathan Sim's review of Harold and the Purple Crayon, a new fantasy comedy movie starring Zachary Levi.
Lil Rel Howery Moose Benjamin Bottani Mel and Zachary Levi Harold in Columbia Pictures HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYONIn a world where every piece of IP gets turned into a movie, one book dares to get a very strange adaptation.started out as a beloved children’s picture book from the 1950s. The movie starts out by retelling the story that many are familiar with.
This movie borrows heavily from Elf, particularly in the beginning. Scenes where Harold goes up to random elderly men and shouts after them under the belief they are his father are reminiscent of that scene in Elf where Buddy goes up to a man who looks like Santa and yells, “Santa! Santa! Not Santa.” It borrows so heavily from that movie that it even borrows. She is once again playing a woman with exceptional musical talent trapped in a mundane job she doesn’t enjoy.
Let’s talk about the comedy. What comedy? This is one of the least funny movies I’ve seen all year. There’s one mildly amusing bit when Harold and Moose find themselves crushed by the taxing weight of being adults with jobs. Besides that, the jokes are miss after miss. Many family movies have jokes that will make children laugh, but not adults. I can’t imagine children laughing at this movie, either.
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