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FilmPG2024
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life. From TMDB
167 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 23, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 family comedy adventure film, directed by Carlos Saldanha, starring Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery and Zooey Deschanel.
- 144 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Mar 13, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026
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60 of 167 · most liked firstOh shit this isn't gonna go over well. Biden just announced he's issuing a pardon to the makers of the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Therapist: Stop focusing on studios making an action adventure Harold and the Purple Crayon movie starring Zachary Levi. It's not real. It can't be real. Please tell me it's not real. Is there no God? What hell hath we wrought.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Harold and the Purple Crayon Someone needs to study the downfall of Zachary Levi as this is as bad as others have made it out to be. Immediately when the animation intro ends, it just turns into the standard awful family movie and you can see the pain within some actors eyes
negative · AI labelView post →dang the right's just rackin up celebrities, they got grown up Harold from the movie that you could call 'a movie that was made', Harold and the Purple Crayon
neutral · AI labelView post →2025 Razzie Award Winners: Madame Web, Megalopolis, Joker 2, Unfrosted. # Worst Picture - Borderlands - Joker: Folie à Deux - **Madame Web (WINNER)** - Megelopoljs - Reagan # Worst Actor - Jack Black / *Dear Santa* - Zachary Levi / *Harold and the Purple Crayon* - Joaquin Phoenix / *Joker: Folie à Deux* - Dennis Quaid / *Reagan* - **Jerry Seinfeld / *Unfrosted* (WINNER)** # Worst Actress - Cate Blanchett / *Borderlands* - Lady Gaga / *Joker: Folie à Deux* - Bryce Dallas Howard / *Argylle* -…
neutral · AI labelView post →I hope this HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON movie bombs so hard that Chuck posts a video of himself just openly weeping, realizing nobody gives a shit about his movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon: The children's book character comes to the real world as Zachary Levi and causes mayhem, in this family film so bad it feels like it came out 2 decades ago; a frantic collection of (clumsy) CG setpieces. Jermaine Clement and Zooey Deschanel phone it in with contempt.
neutral · AI labelView post →The plot of the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie is that the character leaves his book and turns into Zachary Levi because the narrator stopped keeping the story on track and he learns this is because the author, Crockett Johnson, is dead. So the grave he's rolling over in is part of the plot.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dude, you were in that Harold and the Purple Crayon movie. You don't get to talk shit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon is technically a movie I think.
neutral · AI labelView post →This Ryan’s World movie preview makes Harold and the Purple Crayon look like Lawrence of Arabia.
neutral · AI labelView post →Excuse me, that is Harold from the smash hit movie Harold and the Purple Crayon.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon will be the final straw that breaks the modern movie business. strong 1967 Doctor Dolittle emanations coming from this project
neutral · AI labelView post →wow that HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON trailer is an excellent parody, it almost had me fooled this was a real film
neutral · AI labelView post →kids wanted to watch Harold and the Purple Crayon on Netflix, and if I had nickel for every time I’d seen a movie where Zooey Deschanel starred opposite a boyish man child who talked about the importance of believing, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s still strange it happened twice
neutral · AI labelView post →How much money did that Harold and the Purple Crayon movie make
neutral · AI labelView post →hey I got a question did you know that the Zachary Levi Harold and the Purple Crayon movie ends with a fight between Zachary Levi and Jermaine Clement, who has somehow gained evil purple crayon powers
neutral · AI labelView post →Why is Harold in the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie played by an adult man
neutral · AI labelView post →Zachary Levi has gone from playing a teenager in the Shazam movies, to playing a four year old in Harold and the Purple Crayon. The only place left for his career to go is to play a fetus in the creepiest pro life movie the world has ever seen
neutral · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon, a movie that not only managed to be awful, but was three awful movies in one: a shitty Elf remake, a shitty fantasy movie, and a shitty rumination on death and religion
negative · AI labelView post →It's far down on the list of bad things happening right now, but apparently people in the 2nd grader's class are saying that the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie is good.
neutral · AI labelView post →There are worse things a movie can be than "unimaginative," unless the entire movie is about the infinite possibilities of imagination. My review of the middling and derivative "adaptation" of HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON is The Wrap! 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →the existence of that Harold and the Purple Crayon movie is like actually offensive
negative · AI labelView post →Never told any of you this, but me and my friends like to call that awful Harold and the Purple Crayon movie “Harold and the Cliched Real World Adventure”
negative · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon has turned into a legendary flop. The only films it passed to squeak into the top ten are a Kevin Sorbo Christian persecution movie made by Epoch Times, a limited Fathom Events rerelease of Ponyo, and month-old horror movies still on a few screens.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Harold and the Purple Crayon live action movie is real?!? I thought that was a gag.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway don’t bring that Harold and The Purple Crayon movie to my attention, it’s not being done by UPA or animated, and stars the weirdo that ruined Shazam, don’t need it don’t want it, get it gone
negative · AI labelView post →About to watch Harold and the Purple Crayon on Hulu and give myself a residual nickel!!! 📽🎭🎬 I really like this film. It's good fun. Old school film making. Like the movies I grew up on.
positive · AI labelView post →Two-thirds through my three-film marathon this afternoon at Queensgate. Unmoved by BAD GUYS 2 but really liked SKETCH: a kids horror fantasy that’s like if HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON was directed by John Carpenter. THE LONG WALK is next.
neutral · AI labelView post →I went on a "family get-together weekend" last month, and the films selected on movie night were HERE and HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON, which means this is the most up to date on the @flophousepodcast.bsky.social selections I've been in quite some time.
neutral · AI labelView post →I can imagine a kids movie about Harold and the Purple Crayon where an old-man Harold helps nurture the imagination of a child or something, in the old school What of Children Had Adventures type of movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't realize the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie came out and is already a tremendous flop
neutral · AI labelView post →Lets hope the public rejects him harder than they did the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie
neutral · AI labelView post →oh christ I saw an ad for Harold and the Purple Crayon the movie brb going to find a gun to suck on
neutral · AI labelView post →This is JudgeJessica's reaction to Harold and the Purple Crayon the Movie 2019
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe? That recent Firestarter? That was more of a non-event. I thought the Zemeckis Witches movie started strong and careened off the rails pretty hard… Would Harold and the Purple Crayon even count?
neutral · AI labelView post →Why did Zachary Levi agreed to do that live action Harold and the Purple Crayon movie again?
neutral · AI labelView post →my dumbass thought that this was about the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie until I read the comments
neutral · AI labelView post →This guy thought he could permanent burpy voice his way into stardom. That Harold and the Purple Crayon movie looked like a money laundering scheme.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon is a bit of a fucking shit film.
negative · AI labelView post →Worst Film: Harold and the Purple Crayon What could've been an interesting fun film ended up being an annoyance. Old Man deserves better. (That's a joke in a Discord server I'm in.)
negative · AI labelView post →It has a similar “fake movie” energy to Harold and the Purple Crayon. I could imagine this being a fake trailer before Tropic Thunder.
neutral · AI labelView post →Vote which movies better: Hitpig vs Harold and the Purple Crayon Comment 🖍️ for Harold Comment 🐷 for Hitpig #hitpig #haroldandthepurplecrayon #movie #animation
neutral · AI labelView post →My aunt-in-law just suggested the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie to my kid. After she left, my child turned to my wife and goes "I'm not gonna watch it." To be short, my kid is already pulling the "the book was better" move at the age of 4.
neutral · AI labelView post →The “Harold and the Purple Crayon” movie wasn’t half bad. My 6yo loved it. She is now drawing in her sketchbook with a purple crayon.
positive · AI labelView post →There’s a Harold and the Purple Crayon movie? With all due respect to a classic, what’s there to make a movie about? Next thing you know there’ll be an epic Goodnight, Moon trilogy.
neutral · AI labelView post →THERE’S A MOVIE BASED (very loosely) ON HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON!?!?!?!?!?!?
neutral · AI labelView post →The best character in Harold and the Purple Crayon is “a deserving porcupine,” who appears in exactly one image. All I need to know about the new live-action movie is that a deserving porcupine becomes a punk human, and also has a mid-00s DreamWorks face even in the cartoon world.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Harold and the Purple Crayon movie almost had a scene where Harold attempted suicide I may be exaggerating but I am also not joking
neutral · AI labelView post →Harold and the Purple Crayon, the movie…. Wow! It’s good!
positive · AI labelView post →My #kidlit heart is gushing as I watch the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie with my kids. The author leaves Harold a note to read after he's gone, just so he knows why he created him😭😭😭😭😭😭 What would your note say?
positive · AI labelView post →My kid is watching the Harold and the Purple Crayon movie and it's one of the flattest, cheapest looking things I've ever seen
negative · AI labelView post →watched HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON letterboxd.com/purkka/film/...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Our next film stars Zackary Levi as Harold in 'Harold and the Purple Crayon 2'. Let's watch a clip." "With this crayon, ANYTHING is possible!" "Harold, you're 43. Move out." "Now, let's check the Shermometer to see which circle of Hell I'd rather be in than watch this... OOH! Lucky number 7!"
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie of Harold and the Purple Crayon has a fantasy author who writes the gloriously-titled "The Glaive of G’Garaur."
neutral · AI labelView post →The last movie I remember him being in was Harold and the Purple Crayon. youtu.be/mDxbRnjqeEA?...
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched a movie on the boat. My ★★ review of Harold and the Purple Crayon on Letterboxd boxd.it/aMtKfV
negative · AI labelView post →there’s a live action Harold and the Purple Crayon movie on netflix, and I tweeted jokingly like a decade ago that someone should make just such a thing, so I’d like to imagine I’m responsible for this
neutral · AI labelView post →I would rather listen to the gang talk about a movie I've seen over something, obviously worse, like Harold and the Purple Crayon.
neutral · AI labelView post →8. Harold and the Purple Crayon Levi made this movie and decided to lose his mind. 2/10
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