In this live-action film, storybook character Harold (played by Zachary Levi) wields his magical purple crayon, which allows him to bring anything to life simply by drawing it. As he grows up, Harold draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world. However, real life proves to be odd and confusing for him. Alongside his friends Moose (Lil Rel Howery) and Porcupine (Tanya Reynolds), Harold embarks on a quest to find the missing narrator (voiced by Alfred Molina).

Harold and the Purple Crayon PARENTAL NOTES

Unnecessary Language

• One of the characters says’ Oh my God,” at least once.
• During a reading of his novel to a small group of children, an author goes into some detail about a character’s “masculine nipples.”

Whip’em out

• When comparing the size of two broken halves of the Purple Crayon, one character says, “Mine’s bigger,” and it is meant to be the obvious and crass joke that it is.

WOKE REPORT

Pride Goeth

• There is a fraction of a fraction of a moment in which a Pride Flag can be seen in the background. When I say “seen,” I mean that you would have to know exactly when and where to look to see it, and then you would most likely have to rewind several times to be sure that you saw what you think you saw.
  • It may be there on purpose, or it could have been something hanging from someone’s real home that the filmmakers did not catch. It could also be the case that they needed to get the shot, and the homeowners weren’t home to ask for its temporary removal, or they were there but refused to take it down. It’s so fleeting, out of focus, and obscured that it’s impossible to say if it is deliberately in the frame.
  • Before you yell at me, I can’t mark 100% of a movie as woke for a half-second moment that might not even be intentional. However, that doesn’t mean that you should let your children watch it.