Harold e o Lápis Mágico

Even if the book's story has been told and the movie's format has been done before, a movie that reminds us to be imaginative -- and that delivers some imaginative visuals to boot -- can't really get old.

It's hard not to wish that in the future, Harold will stick to the cartoon world where he belongs.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is too wedded to formulas it didn't need to tap your nostalgia.

Functionally a movie but without too much of that pesky depth or entertainment getting in the way.

Saldanha and his writers had the entire world at their disposal, and they ended up drawing a total blank.

The film's effects-first, story-last strategy is a dismal failure. The charming, gentle simplicity of the book, with its childlike art, has been displaced by a mania for digital images and frantic attempts to be funny.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a tiresome display of a near-complete absence of imagination.

A formulaic, unfunny bore, with all the spark of Johnson's original creation turned into a lifeless, charmless viewing experience.

The movie plods around awkwardly, trying to leech whatever charm it can from the remaining elements of the original

If this had been made in the 90s, Levi's character would almost certainly have been played by Robin Williams, akin to his roles in Jack or Flubber. The film probably would've been a lot more fun, too.

Zachary Levi is the perfect person to inhabit Harold with vigor and a childlike presence that resonates on all levels. After, all with a little imagination you can make you life whatever you want it to be.

'Harold And The Purple Crayon' doesn't quite provoke the blues that one might expect from such a crass-sounding adaptation, but neither does it paint the town red with its modest ambitions. We're left mixed, as purple as the crayon.

A film that pays lip service to the importance of creativity without ever displaying a demonstrable shred of it during its seemingly interminable run time.

This adaptation fails to use Harold's magic crayon to impart lessons about individuality, reality, or social norms.

There's something deeply strange about [Levi's] performance here, grinning and mugging with childlike wonder in a way that can only be read as disingenuous.

Levi relies on the same shtick he used in two "Shazam!" movies, playing the clueless man-child with incredible powers, but the routine is getting old.

Harold and the Purple Crayon makes the classic Hollywood mistake of taking a story that was lovely because of its concision and simplicity and turns it into a movie that is overly long and complicated for no good reason.

It's a movie promoting the power of imagination that's not very imaginative.

For a movie about the power of imagination, it's disappointing how little of it this film has to offer.

Unapologetically made just for the smallest of children, and offers nary a laugh for anyone older than, say, 5 years old