I saw some people not happy that they make Harold some awkward adult instead of a 4 year old like he is in the book. The books were about the imagination of a small child, this however is just weird.
It's almost like this should have stayed a cute animated movie because the thing people liked was the idea of a kid in a fun art style doing goofy kid things.
@@dracocrusherYeah, I looked at the old animated series after seeing the trailer, and it actually is creative and interesting with its animation, would've thought.
In 20 years there will be video essays about how without this film, the whole movie insustry would had died in 2025 or how this movie inspired a generation.
The problem is the IP is so old that mostly Gen X and some niche millennials know about the series. You'd think they'd try and revitalize the tv series(last instance being in 2001) before pushing a movie of a series that hasn't been relevant in over 50+ years. They don't even push the kids book anymore as far as I know as it wasn't even on my radar to get for my son.
It reminds me of how the 2006 Curious George movie took a book series from the 40s and made an entire new franchise from it because they were actually earnest about adapting it. Ironic since the 2D animation here looks heavily inspired by it
I watched a clip of the old TV series after watching the trailer, has infinitely more charm than this. Save your family the money everyone, buy the picture book for your kids, give them a story to fondly remember, don't take them to this.
1:09 Well I've seen back then when they showed a “Harold and the Purple Crayon” just given their show on HBO Family. It was a pretty creative kids' show and have Philly Collins singing throughout the episode and Sharon Stone narrated Harold's misadventures of being a purple art imagination. But this one….yup how the hell Sony making this new version of Harold. Oh boy, it will “The Smurfs” all over again.
Also, the song is not from Phil Collins. It was sung by Van Dyke Parks and the intro theme for the show was pretty enjoyable and it almost sounded like Collins.
I remember this buried gem from my kindergarten years. I loved the heck out of it. Can't help but think the movie would be at least 4 times better if it was all animated in that curious george esc 2d style (than they could focus more on refining faces so it don't look ugly)
I don't see even fans of the original IP enjoying it, I've never heard of this before but it's utterly divorced from the IP. Not animated, not about a kid, not featuring animal friend sidekicks, set in an entirely different reality... did someone just Ctrl+F the main characters name into another script?
This is one of those times where a cheaply made children's animated movie would have been more appropriate for the source material. You'd probably have better luck trying to make a live-action Curious George than Harold & The Purple Crayon.
Gimme a live action Curious George where George rips the Man in the Big Yellow Hat's face off and then the rest of the movie proceeds like a remake of Outbreak.
As much as I resent the existence of this film, I also totally resent Adum calling it a “baby show” lmao. This was probably my favorite book as a (very small) child. Sigh.
I'll never get why Hollywood makes fantasy properties into cheap live-action when full animation makes incorporating magic so much easier. Like when Nickelodeon attempted a live-action Fairly Odd Parents reboot, used the most basic sets and premises possible to save money, and then wondered why it looked like shit. How is a medium where you can literally DO ANYTHING, even with a lower budget, not the obvious answer lmao
I genuinely cannot believe they roped Jemaine “What We Do In The Shadows” Clement into this. Like bro’s a solid actor, he should not be doing “Harold and the Purple Crayon”
6:56 ooh someone likes Rio? When you’ll do the “Watch-Along” review? If he likes Rio because Jesse Eisenberg as a dorky Blu instead of being Lex Goofball Luthor in BVS, that could be fine.
The moment the Sony logo showed up, i groaned in disappointment. Will this movie be 70% advertisement and 30% actual story? (with a scene taking place in times square for extra ad space)
I would really like to know what video these highlights video was pulled from originally?? Was it a movie watchalong or a adumplaze video? Would be good if you could start including it in the description
Genuine question, why aren't all the things they draw bright purple? Because that's the entire color of the crayon? Like shouldn't that be the entire point??? Oh right, it's live action so the software works better with dark brown generic monster designs. Got it. Good choice, guys, you did it.
I'm sure it'll get explained in the movie but I'm so confused. Do Harold and the crayon and such actually exist and the books are nonfiction (somehow), or did they just come to life from the books because magic?
Harold was mostly known because of Chalk Zone, which people said was a ripoff of Harold and the purple crayon, but I’d never heard anyone mention it until chalk zone came out
Male mooses do have chin pelts though? Adum sometimes man...I gotta wonder, are you REALLY canadian and furry? How is it that I'm not a furry or a canadian but somehow know more about canadian animals than a canadian furry? XD
It would be a bold but probably successful marketing push if they got Zach Levy to go full grifter on the press tour. Throw him on the Joe Rogan Podcast where he'll praise Jordan Peterson for 3 hours. He already seems to believe that sort of thing. He'll get cancelled in the short term, but then the other side will praise this film as the homeschool kids movie that Hollywood doesn't want you to see. Regardless of its quality, that crowd would show up. Tap into that Sound of Freedom money.
9:11 "this movie ain't creating no furries is what I'm trying to say" - Adum Hmm, suspicious. Is Adum finally admitting his goal as part of the woke mob is to have it so movies converts everyone into furries? Something tells me this critic won't be giving this anti-woke movie a good score and not because it looks like dogshit! Sad!
The cgi looks terrible, I really don't like cgi, makes things look more fake than real but this is really bad. And how in the hell has someone not heard or know about Harold and the purple crayon!
This movie feels like a script that was written a decade ago and was only revived this year, especially with the fish-out-of-water/"cartoon character goes to the real world" cliché.
That’s because this movie has actually been in development at Sony since 2010 as an animated film with Will Smith producing and then went through development hell transitioning to a live action film, Will Smith left the project with John Davis replacing him as producer he also produced the live action Garfield movies and Fat Albert 2004 which this movie clearly takes a lot of elements from, the man must love the portal trope.
Exactly what I have been thinking. Probably the studios forcing directors to use certain lenses and cameras. Plus no more creative lighting because they can fix it in post.
I loved the book when I was a kid. I read it all the time. The way I was CRINGING the whole time while watching this trailer. It's unbelievable how embarrassing this entire movie feels just off the trailer.
Pretty sure Sony wins as the worst MAJOR MOVIE studio on the planet, even beating out LionsGate. They have the most bombs and critically panned movies than I think any other studio. WHICH is so baffling since their TV department is stacked with massive hits like Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, The Boys, and at least 40% of the Classic TV shows your, I guess now (grand)parents grew up with. So clearly their TV department can sniff out and locate hits, probably should consult them when buying MOVIE IPs.
Is it me or is the trope of “Cartoon/Main Character of IP stumbles into the real world and stuff happens.” Kinda feel like it’s run its course. I would prefer to see what the 2D animated world looked like since to me that looks way more interesting
Well I hate to break it to you but it looks like the Minecraft movie might be going down this path as well but it’s real people going into the Minecraft world.
If you want to see how this would look animated, the animated series from 2001 is all on RUclips. I only watched a few minutes of it, but it looked infinitely more creative than this.
A lot of silly comedies are doing this despite it being completely tonally wrong for the material, lately. I can sort of understand the "epic" attitude being stapled on to something like Ghostbusters, since those movies at least generally have earth-shattering stakes at the end, but Beetlejuice, for example, or this?? It's like if someone were to do an "epic" sequel to Caddyshack. (Oh god, please tell me Sony doesn't own Caddyshack.)
I must be completely jaded at this point but I don't understand why movies like this exist. Was it cheap? Do they expect it to make money? Do they care?
This is my current dilemma lmao. They skimp on the whole production to save money, then lose money anyway because it looks like ass and no one sees it. Like why even go through the trouble
It's the risk aversion. The companies are producing tons of flops, but something that appears to make money are films attached to existing IP. They never consider that this is due to them barely marketing original films, and not allowing creatives much room on said films. They also have become obsessed with micromanaging their movies - in a world of vfx and modern editing, and now even some AI, you can focus group your movie into a perfect* product. All this focus grouping, over reliance on cg, and just general bloat makes the movie more expensive to produce however - so you can't justify a small niche movie. Every movie has to have billion dollar blockbuster potential. So that's how we have gotten to now. Granted, to give one mercy to Hollywood, the demise of home video/dvd sales really destroyed a major piece of insurance against risk - a small comedy might not do great in theaters, but for $20 a dvd you could make tons of money in the home market. Now they have none of that, only streaming (which granted they've done a terrible job with too).
Harold and the Purple Crayon holds the same place in my memory as The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Tiny child me enjoyed the books, but I do not want movies from either
The people in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies have a really good time behind scenes _because_ they're playing straight the most ridiculous sh*t ever. Everybody understands the asignment in those films
Imagine if Spy Kids would've been released the last 5-10 years with Robert not being involved at all: full of 'wink wink' at the camera and constantly forced awful meta jokes. F*ck me I hate modern comedy.
About that "Rio, I Love You", has Adum not considered that maybe the Brazilian-sounding guy, besides directing a film titled "Rio", could have had something else to do with the subject matter? Like, being literally from Rio de Janeiro?
I grew up with Harold and the Purple Crayon so I'm somewhat familiar with it. If it came out 10 years ago, it probably would sell a lot better. A little late for its time...
Why can't we get a movie that starts out as the kids movie, then ends with the FBI assassinating Harold then studying and replicating the Crayon for Military use, cuz that is what would happen IRL
I would watch this if it were to start off as a silly family comedy, but then it abruptly becomes an action thriller like a more gratuitously-violent version of The Fugitive in the middle.
"Yeah, this is a fun animation style." Movie: "BUT... What IF......... What if this kids movie was real.....???" "... This is just so you can save money, isn't it?" Movie: "While firing all these ununionized CG artists before the film comes out before the financial quarter ends, yes. That is how this works now."
When I first saw the poster, I laughed so hard to where I couldn’t believe it was a real movie. I almost thought this looked like one of the fake movie trailers from Tropic Thunder.
Big/Little Joel should do his own faithful rendition of this classic kids book, as a palate cleanser after this trailer left a bad taste in viewers’ mouths
This feels to me like the people who made this wanted to make a kids movie. Which sadly, is more than I can say about most modern kids movies which just feel like nobody involved wanted to do anything more than make money. They went up to a film exec and said "we want to make a movie based off this existing property". And with the infinite wisdom of every film exec everywhere they thought about the nostalgia dollars existing properties drag in and said yes. While the property is so unknown that they basically can do whatever and there isnt gonna be any rabid fans jumping down their throats over the disregard for established Harold-Verse cannon. This movie looks weird and not exactly super high quality, but I am hesitantly hopeful for this movie to be more than a shameless revenue generation machine.
The original books as a kid were great and so imaginative and fun to look at and get lost in, but they were also hauntingly isolating and lonely; these purple line drawings existing in the vast white emptiness. Everything harold draws is just that, still a drawing. And even though he can climb on and through and around whatever he creates, all characters he draws are still just static images he has to imagine them alive and the conversations they have and the noises they make. At one point he wants to go home and draws an entire city, yet can't place his bedroom window among the thousands of ones he drew. This should have been an existential kind of 20min max silent short film, live action is just a terrible idea.
Something that frustrated me about these movies about being creative is that the designs they use are the most bland things imaginable. Like wow you could draw anything and make it real and you drew a plane?
This just baffles me on how they think this is gonna sell at all. Harold the purple crayon? In 2024??? I forgot the book much less a show even existed until I was basically yelled at by Columbia that it does
I remember the original show was decent for a baby show. Relaxing, nice designs, the crayon made it fun to watch. But into an entire live action movie is strange.
“This movie ain’t creating no furries is what I’m saying. They need to have better faces” If we’re going on faces alone, it’s putting me off actual humans as well.
While the intro animation was kinda bland and looked more like a commercial for dishsoap or something, its infinitely more charming than the uncanny CG live action slop that follows. I don't think anyone was asking for this movie, but I feel like it would translate so much better into animation rather than putting a grown man in a purple onesie.
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I saw some people not happy that they make Harold some awkward adult instead of a 4 year old like he is in the book. The books were about the imagination of a small child, this however is just weird.
It's almost like this should have stayed a cute animated movie because the thing people liked was the idea of a kid in a fun art style doing goofy kid things.
@@dracocrusherYeah, I looked at the old animated series after seeing the trailer, and it actually is creative and interesting with its animation, would've thought.
Exactly!!
I think it's funny that the guy from Shazam is in this. Imagine being typecast as a child in an adult body.
Imagine thinking Shazam was good enough to copy :/
I read this as "child in a human body" at first lmao
They should cast him as Elon Musk if there's a biopic based on Walter Isaacson's dumb book.
Like the opposite of my 12 year old gf
Why does he look so much like Jimmy Fallon
This is gonna be a cult classic movie that kids watch in their childhoods and then swear it was actually amazing.
In 20 years there will be video essays about how without this film, the whole movie insustry would had died in 2025 or how this movie inspired a generation.
The problem is the IP is so old that mostly Gen X and some niche millennials know about the series. You'd think they'd try and revitalize the tv series(last instance being in 2001) before pushing a movie of a series that hasn't been relevant in over 50+ years. They don't even push the kids book anymore as far as I know as it wasn't even on my radar to get for my son.
It reminds me of how the 2006 Curious George movie took a book series from the 40s and made an entire new franchise from it because they were actually earnest about adapting it. Ironic since the 2D animation here looks heavily inspired by it
I watched a clip of the old TV series after watching the trailer, has infinitely more charm than this.
Save your family the money everyone, buy the picture book for your kids, give them a story to fondly remember, don't take them to this.
I'm gen z and I read Harold and the Purple Crayon so idk
Gen Z Purple Crayon hype.
The book was my favorite as a child but I was never even aware that there was a series. This looks like a disaster.
Adum: They should've gotten the Rock to be in this movie, then it would sell
Producer of the movie watching this: FUCK!
Also Zachary Levi: FUCK!
1:09 Well I've seen back then when they showed a “Harold and the Purple Crayon” just given their show on HBO Family. It was a pretty creative kids' show and have Philly Collins singing throughout the episode and Sharon Stone narrated Harold's misadventures of being a purple art imagination.
But this one….yup how the hell Sony making this new version of Harold. Oh boy, it will “The Smurfs” all over again.
Also, the song is not from Phil Collins. It was sung by Van Dyke Parks and the intro theme for the show was pretty enjoyable and it almost sounded like Collins.
This entire situation screams "RUclipsr was given a little bit of money to do a thing" levels of production. It's wild.
I remember this buried gem from my kindergarten years. I loved the heck out of it. Can't help but think the movie would be at least 4 times better if it was all animated in that curious george esc 2d style (than they could focus more on refining faces so it don't look ugly)
I don't see even fans of the original IP enjoying it, I've never heard of this before but it's utterly divorced from the IP. Not animated, not about a kid, not featuring animal friend sidekicks, set in an entirely different reality... did someone just Ctrl+F the main characters name into another script?
This feels like a fake movie that plays in the background of another movie or TV show or whatever
Does that make sense?
This does feel like a trailer played at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
@@michaelstrong5383 Never go full Let's Get It Started.
Smurfs 3 is looking tight!
This is one of those times where a cheaply made children's animated movie would have been more appropriate for the source material. You'd probably have better luck trying to make a live-action Curious George than Harold & The Purple Crayon.
Gimme a live action Curious George where George rips the Man in the Big Yellow Hat's face off and then the rest of the movie proceeds like a remake of Outbreak.
the fucking faces adum imitates, im dying
You can only give the power to give life to drawings to children, adults would immediately replace society with waifus.
As much as I resent the existence of this film, I also totally resent Adum calling it a “baby show” lmao. This was probably my favorite book as a (very small) child. Sigh.
Oh god, I thought that was Michael Knowles in the thumbnail.
I'll never get why Hollywood makes fantasy properties into cheap live-action when full animation makes incorporating magic so much easier. Like when Nickelodeon attempted a live-action Fairly Odd Parents reboot, used the most basic sets and premises possible to save money, and then wondered why it looked like shit. How is a medium where you can literally DO ANYTHING, even with a lower budget, not the obvious answer lmao
I genuinely cannot believe they roped Jemaine “What We Do In The Shadows” Clement into this. Like bro’s a solid actor, he should not be doing “Harold and the Purple Crayon”
When will we get a cool cat vs dirty dog review
6:56 ooh someone likes Rio? When you’ll do the “Watch-Along” review? If he likes Rio because Jesse Eisenberg as a dorky Blu instead of being Lex Goofball Luthor in BVS, that could be fine.
The moment the Sony logo showed up, i groaned in disappointment. Will this movie be 70% advertisement and 30% actual story? (with a scene taking place in times square for extra ad space)
Where porcupine girl go? They replaced her with a kid?
Here's the plot twist: this is actually Shazam! 3 because this is what Billy Batson experienced while he was dead in Shazam! 2
You know it works!! 😂
4:06 it's Lil Rey Howley, the dude from Bad Trip and Get Out?
The animated version of him looks just like the man in the yellow hat from Curious George.
Maybe it wasnt in Canada but there was a book and a cartoon when I wld watch as a toddler...kinda
I would really like to know what video these highlights video was pulled from originally?? Was it a movie watchalong or a adumplaze video? Would be good if you could start including it in the description
Wow dude, purple crayon boi!
Genuine question, why aren't all the things they draw bright purple? Because that's the entire color of the crayon? Like shouldn't that be the entire point???
Oh right, it's live action so the software works better with dark brown generic monster designs. Got it. Good choice, guys, you did it.
I'm sure it'll get explained in the movie but I'm so confused. Do Harold and the crayon and such actually exist and the books are nonfiction (somehow), or did they just come to life from the books because magic?
Thryre really out here destorying everyones childhoods
Harold was mostly known because of Chalk Zone, which people said was a ripoff of Harold and the purple crayon, but I’d never heard anyone mention it until chalk zone came out
I’ve never heard of chalk zone
As someone who grew up said baby show I haven't heard of it since I was like 5. I have no idea why they think people remember this.
I really thought we'd evolved past the need for this kind of movie
This feels weirdly uncomfortable... like, I don't know how to explain to my parents what I was watching if they walked in on me
So they're doing Smurfs again but with a property that this storyline works even less in... greeeeeeeaaaaaat.......
Chalk zone?
Male mooses do have chin pelts though? Adum sometimes man...I gotta wonder, are you REALLY canadian and furry? How is it that I'm not a furry or a canadian but somehow know more about canadian animals than a canadian furry? XD
You just haven't realized you're a furry yet. Also, your parents are secret Canadians. I'm sorry I had to tell you this way.
It would be a bold but probably successful marketing push if they got Zach Levy to go full grifter on the press tour. Throw him on the Joe Rogan Podcast where he'll praise Jordan Peterson for 3 hours. He already seems to believe that sort of thing. He'll get cancelled in the short term, but then the other side will praise this film as the homeschool kids movie that Hollywood doesn't want you to see. Regardless of its quality, that crowd would show up. Tap into that Sound of Freedom money.
DUUUDE PRIDE ROCK!!!!!
Man how far Chuck has fallen. Used to be my favorite actor. Do people still like Yvonne Strahovski?
This is such a odd choice for a film it just feels like grasping at Barbie’s success
I absolutely adored the book as a kid and seeing the trailer be so goddawfully cringy just kills me
Excuse me is this a TF MOVIE
4k wont help the script
adumb hates art and fun and joy
9:11 "this movie ain't creating no furries is what I'm trying to say" - Adum
Hmm, suspicious. Is Adum finally admitting his goal as part of the woke mob is to have it so movies converts everyone into furries? Something tells me this critic won't be giving this anti-woke movie a good score and not because it looks like dogshit! Sad!
The cgi looks terrible, I really don't like cgi, makes things look more fake than real but this is really bad. And how in the hell has someone not heard or know about Harold and the purple crayon!
Enough with the extremely dramatic trailers for the silly, goofy comedy movies! JFC!!
2:41 What do you think? It will be the next “Madame Web” of dumb poorly bad goofing movies?
Yikes not another cheese Sony dumb movie.
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This movie feels like a script that was written a decade ago and was only revived this year, especially with the fish-out-of-water/"cartoon character goes to the real world" cliché.
Yeah this feels like a film made for early 2010s. Don't know who thought anyone would be excited for this now.
Right? It feels like they gave an old school DCOM a theatrical budget
Those Sonic movies are basically that. It's still going it seems. It's Hollywood formula #41
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a script from 2004 that they drug up to make a budget flick.
That’s because this movie has actually been in development at Sony since 2010 as an animated film with Will Smith producing and then went through development hell transitioning to a live action film, Will Smith left the project with John Davis replacing him as producer he also produced the live action Garfield movies and Fat Albert 2004 which this movie clearly takes a lot of elements from, the man must love the portal trope.
Why does every movie look like a super bowl commercial now
Exactly what I have been thinking. Probably the studios forcing directors to use certain lenses and cameras. Plus no more creative lighting because they can fix it in post.
I loved the book when I was a kid. I read it all the time. The way I was CRINGING the whole time while watching this trailer. It's unbelievable how embarrassing this entire movie feels just off the trailer.
this will make a haroldbillion dollars at the box office
Don't.
First ever movie to make purpletrillion dollars on opening weekend
Maybe they should just draw wads of cash
purpillion
Every generation needs its own “Finding Rem Lazar.”
Pretty sure Sony wins as the worst MAJOR MOVIE studio on the planet, even beating out LionsGate. They have the most bombs and critically panned movies than I think any other studio. WHICH is so baffling since their TV department is stacked with massive hits like Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, The Boys, and at least 40% of the Classic TV shows your, I guess now (grand)parents grew up with. So clearly their TV department can sniff out and locate hits, probably should consult them when buying MOVIE IPs.
Is it me or is the trope of “Cartoon/Main Character of IP stumbles into the real world and stuff happens.” Kinda feel like it’s run its course. I would prefer to see what the 2D animated world looked like since to me that looks way more interesting
Well I hate to break it to you but it looks like the Minecraft movie might be going down this path as well but it’s real people going into the Minecraft world.
Also, what a hellish implication that Harold is fictional but still grew up and was aware that he's fictional...like what?
@@VidtopiaEntertainment I do enjoy ordinary characters going to an extra-ordinary world rather than vice versa.
Apparently this movie has been in development hell since 2010, which explains the extremely outdated premise
If you want to see how this would look animated, the animated series from 2001 is all on RUclips. I only watched a few minutes of it, but it looked infinitely more creative than this.
Why did they staple the Marvel 'Epic Music' onto this?
A lot of silly comedies are doing this despite it being completely tonally wrong for the material, lately. I can sort of understand the "epic" attitude being stapled on to something like Ghostbusters, since those movies at least generally have earth-shattering stakes at the end, but Beetlejuice, for example, or this??
It's like if someone were to do an "epic" sequel to Caddyshack.
(Oh god, please tell me Sony doesn't own Caddyshack.)
@@TerrenceNowicki dont give them ideas
I must be completely jaded at this point but I don't understand why movies like this exist. Was it cheap? Do they expect it to make money? Do they care?
This is my current dilemma lmao. They skimp on the whole production to save money, then lose money anyway because it looks like ass and no one sees it. Like why even go through the trouble
It's the risk aversion. The companies are producing tons of flops, but something that appears to make money are films attached to existing IP.
They never consider that this is due to them barely marketing original films, and not allowing creatives much room on said films.
They also have become obsessed with micromanaging their movies - in a world of vfx and modern editing, and now even some AI, you can focus group your movie into a perfect* product.
All this focus grouping, over reliance on cg, and just general bloat makes the movie more expensive to produce however - so you can't justify a small niche movie. Every movie has to have billion dollar blockbuster potential.
So that's how we have gotten to now. Granted, to give one mercy to Hollywood, the demise of home video/dvd sales really destroyed a major piece of insurance against risk - a small comedy might not do great in theaters, but for $20 a dvd you could make tons of money in the home market.
Now they have none of that, only streaming (which granted they've done a terrible job with too).
Harold and the Purple Crayon holds the same place in my memory as The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Tiny child me enjoyed the books, but I do not want movies from either
The people in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies have a really good time behind scenes _because_ they're playing straight the most ridiculous sh*t ever. Everybody understands the asignment in those films
Imagine if Spy Kids would've been released the last 5-10 years with Robert not being involved at all: full of 'wink wink' at the camera and constantly forced awful meta jokes. F*ck me I hate modern comedy.
About that "Rio, I Love You", has Adum not considered that maybe the Brazilian-sounding guy, besides directing a film titled "Rio", could have had something else to do with the subject matter? Like, being literally from Rio de Janeiro?
Having him as an adult is like that weird pinnicio movie that came out starring some 40 yr old french dude
Roberto Beningni and yeah, that was pretty weird, but he would star in another Pinocchio film that people liked appearently.
Okay, this was the LAST thing I was expecting to get a live action adaptation 😭
Rudy’s got the chalk
Use the chalk, Rudy!
Chalk! Chalk! Chalk! Chalk Zone!
@@oldoutlet6946Rudy, you gotta draw something!
DUDE.
PURPLE CRAYON.
If this is where Harold and his crayon are headed, county out.
I grew up with Harold and the Purple Crayon so I'm somewhat familiar with it. If it came out 10 years ago, it probably would sell a lot better. A little late for its time...
Why can't we get a movie that starts out as the kids movie, then ends with the FBI assassinating Harold then studying and replicating the Crayon for Military use, cuz that is what would happen IRL
I would watch this if it were to start off as a silly family comedy, but then it abruptly becomes an action thriller like a more gratuitously-violent version of The Fugitive in the middle.
You can't defeat the purple crayon tho
"Yeah, this is a fun animation style."
Movie: "BUT... What IF......... What if this kids movie was real.....???"
"... This is just so you can save money, isn't it?"
Movie: "While firing all these ununionized CG artists before the film comes out before the financial quarter ends, yes. That is how this works now."
When I first saw the poster, I laughed so hard to where I couldn’t believe it was a real movie. I almost thought this looked like one of the fake movie trailers from Tropic Thunder.
Big/Little Joel should do his own faithful rendition of this classic kids book, as a palate cleanser after this trailer left a bad taste in viewers’ mouths
This feels to me like the people who made this wanted to make a kids movie. Which sadly, is more than I can say about most modern kids movies which just feel like nobody involved wanted to do anything more than make money.
They went up to a film exec and said "we want to make a movie based off this existing property". And with the infinite wisdom of every film exec everywhere they thought about the nostalgia dollars existing properties drag in and said yes.
While the property is so unknown that they basically can do whatever and there isnt gonna be any rabid fans jumping down their throats over the disregard for established Harold-Verse cannon.
This movie looks weird and not exactly super high quality, but I am hesitantly hopeful for this movie to be more than a shameless revenue generation machine.
This looks okay but Cool Cat Borrows Harold's Purple Crayon, now that's a masterpiece
I love Zachary Levi in Chuck. Not a great show, but it's a huge comfort watch for me. Genuine guilty pleasure.
The original books as a kid were great and so imaginative and fun to look at and get lost in, but they were also hauntingly isolating and lonely; these purple line drawings existing in the vast white emptiness. Everything harold draws is just that, still a drawing. And even though he can climb on and through and around whatever he creates, all characters he draws are still just static images he has to imagine them alive and the conversations they have and the noises they make. At one point he wants to go home and draws an entire city, yet can't place his bedroom window among the thousands of ones he drew. This should have been an existential kind of 20min max silent short film, live action is just a terrible idea.
Adam praising Sharkboy and Lavagirl? I think this man would love Spy Kids.
Something that frustrated me about these movies about being creative is that the designs they use are the most bland things imaginable. Like wow you could draw anything and make it real and you drew a plane?
The kid’s eyes at 5:23 tell me this movie will have terrible direction
"It's not an aesthetically pleasing moose."
Adam really has a talent for describing normal observations in the weirdest way possible.
I am so horrifically sick of this trailer drum-spam trend, like is a dude drawing with a crayon fucking chill, I beg you
This just baffles me on how they think this is gonna sell at all. Harold the purple crayon? In 2024??? I forgot the book much less a show even existed until I was basically yelled at by Columbia that it does
Okay it was just a joke of Levi being a child in a man's body. Now it's just sad.
I loved the book as a kid but this movie has nothing to do with it :/
I remember the original show was decent for a baby show. Relaxing, nice designs, the crayon made it fun to watch. But into an entire live action movie is strange.
in german its called "harold and the magic chalk"
Disgusting. I had the book when I was a small child. It was a small-scale, thoughtful little story about imagination. This is a disgrace.
It’s like how the climax of the film Enemy Mine is a mine
literally chalk zone
The Harold and the Purple Crayon book released in 1955, well before Chalk Zone existed.
@@YMSHighlights is time for a 5 hour kimba-like video explaining why chalk zone stole from purple crayon
That moose is NOT furry material.
Feels like the type of film a big budget studio wanted to release just to make a few bucks.
“This movie ain’t creating no furries is what I’m saying. They need to have better faces” If we’re going on faces alone, it’s putting me off actual humans as well.
I watched the show as a kid (I'm 26 now) and this whole trailer is hot garbage. Adult Harold, no one asked for this.
The fucking nostalgia trough is running so dry man
I thought most hate on Zachary are mostly from salty DCEU fans.......... 😕😕😕😕😕😕
While the intro animation was kinda bland and looked more like a commercial for dishsoap or something, its infinitely more charming than the uncanny CG live action slop that follows. I don't think anyone was asking for this movie, but I feel like it would translate so much better into animation rather than putting a grown man in a purple onesie.
Read the original children’s book or watch the 7 minute Animated short film from 1959.
This movie is the most desperate IP digging i have ever seen
How dare they touch harold, and his purple crayon!
bad touch
A furry dragon? not in my christian childrens book movie