Adapting this Crockett Johnson classic from 1955 therefore involves taking all sorts of liberties, and only a handful of them ...

Director Carlos Saldanha, an animation veteran who helmed the Ice Age franchise and the Rio movies, keeps the story moving with light humor and fun visuals sprinkled throughout. The imaginative ...

The director, Carlos Saldanha, a veteran of animation (“Rio,” the “Ice Age” films), ... “Harold and the Purple Crayon” is too wedded to formulas it didn’t need to tap your nostalgia.

M aybe it’s unfair to call out a bizarre, ugly, unlikable live-action rendition of a beloved children’s book like Harold and the Purple Crayon, for being illogical. It is, after all, a visual ...