Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
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.
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Using a trope that audiences will already be familiar with – with Barbie (2023) most recently or, for example, Enchanted (2007) a few years back – Harold and the Purple Crayon allows its main character to leave the storybook world behind and explore the real one.
Using a trope that audiences will already be familiar with – with Barbie (2023) most recently or, for example, Enchanted (2007) a few years back – Harold and the Purple Crayon allows its main character to leave the storybook world behind and explore the real one. The narrative trope may not be necessarily new or original, but it still works very well, especially thanks to the visual aspect as Harold’s world looks and feels very different from the real one with its two-dimensional animation and lack of colours.