But reality outside of cartoons isn't quite what Harold and his friends expected. They are faced with the prospect of actual pain when they meet young Mel (Benjamin Bottani) and his mother Terry ...

When we meet him, Harold is a cartoon boy with a purple crayon who can draw anything he wants, including his two best friends: Moose (a moose) and Porcupine (a porcupine). Together, they live in a ...

Even young viewers of “Harold and the Purple Crayon” may feel they’ve seen versions of most of these effects before. For what made the book special wasn’t just that Harold could draw anything.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is directed by Oscar nominee Carlos Saldanha, who has a long history of helming animated films including several from the Ice Age series, Rio, and Ferdinand. The film ...

The first few minutes of Harold and the Purple Crayon feature charming hand-drawn animation very much in the style of the 1955 classic children’s picture book by Crockett Johnson, making it easy ...

“Harold and the Purple Crayon” — 2 stars “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its r ...

The night before, oblivious to what the weekend would bring us, kiddo and I filed into the Children’s Theatre for opening night of Harold and the Purple Crayon. Having missed the flashy and (we were ...

This wonder will arrive through a tool of “pure imagination” (they really say that!). That is, Harold’s purple crayon, whose concoctions add some not-insubstantial visual interest to the ...

By itself, the opening 10-minute salvo of Harold and the Purple Crayon — Carlos Saldanha’s live-action feature debut — is a thing of rare beauty, a near-perfect stand-alone preface that ...

When we meet him, Harold is a cartoon boy with a purple crayon who can draw anything he wants, including his two best friends: Moose (a moose) and Porcupine (a porcupine). Together, they live in a ...