The Hero of Color City

G

Released Oct 3, 2014

1 hr. 17 min.

Kids & Family

Adventure

Animation

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29%

21 Reviews

Tomatometer

46%

250+ Ratings

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Crayons (Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson) team up to save the day when an unfinished drawing tries to steal all of the world's color.

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Evan G

The Hero of Color City was okay

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/22/23

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Cristina C

This movie is great, my 4 and 9 year old love it and have been watching it daily. It's different than the movies that people are used to watching however this movie is refreshing in the sense that it takes me back to the simplicity of wonder and reminds me of life before social media. Nothing in this movie is inappropriate.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/30/23

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Mason D

not bad movie yes a little obnauxiouse and for 2 year olds but plot is decent and it passed the time

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/18/22

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Justin J

Absolutely stunning! Loved watching this with my little ones on the week nights before school starts. Although it does get a little bit "feisty" at some times. I feel like being rated G is not right and it should at least be PG-13 at least. The crayons have a lying undertone of sexual interplay that I just feel doesn't belong there for a movie considered "G". Other than that, a beautiful masterpiece with great writing, sound, and design on characters and scenery.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/04/22

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Audience Member

this movie is not so good, these characters are going to stop these unfinished drawings guys to save the color city? Nah, this movie is a ripoff of Crayola, i don't like it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Only babies, and even they may get bored, will be entertained by this. It boasts colorful visuals, but... this is exactly the type of film you'd expect relying on a concept that's literally about colors. Nothing is original, and they rely on basic archetypes for the characters. Really, if I told you this film was generic, and you saw that it was about crayons coming alive, what immediately comes to mind? Ok, yeah, Toy Story, but that aside? Yeah, Yellow is cowardly (ironic giving it being a cheerful color), Blue is "Cool", Red is sassy, Green is oddly nerdy, and black is depressed. That's as far as their personalities go, and don't go much beyond that at all. It's painful to sit through, and the most infuriating part about it is (I don't care that it's for babies) that the writers of this didn't even TRY to do a something different. It's as if they enjoyed tropes and cliches from other films (because it borrows from more than just Toy Story), and slammed it into this Roseart-level of cheap entertainment. Oh and it's a musical too, and not a good one either. It also had no reason to be a musical because the songs don't add anything or drive the plot, and they're just as aggressively boring and uninspired as the entire movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Frank Gladstone

Director

Christina Ricci

Yellow

Rosie Perez

Red

Craig Ferguson

Nat

Wayne Brady

Blue

David Kaye

Black

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Chris Michael

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It should appeal to the little ones, but there's not much here for the over-sixes.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 30, 2015

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Charles Solomon

Los Angeles Times

The story and characterizations never get much deeper than "We're all special in our own way." At times, the five writers borrow a little too heavily from other properties.

Oct 3, 2014

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

Even if you allow for the the fact that the film is geared towards the 5-year-old set, it's still a pretty dreary experience, made even more so by screamingly vivid colors, uninspiring animation and grating songs.

Rated: 1.5/4

Oct 3, 2014

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

The visuals, the story and the characters keep moving and never stagnate. There is always an eye-popping visual, color blend, adventure or music to keep the attention of a fidgety kid... The Hero of Color City will be a hero to the younger set.

Dec 14, 2019

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

... might at best provide desperate parents with an electronic babysitter.

Dec 3, 2014

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Dustin Putman

TheFilmFile.com

"The Hero of Color City" was made for five-year-olds and is unashamedly derivative of "Toy Story."

Rated: 2/4

Dec 1, 2014

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Synopsis

Crayons (Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson) team up to save the day when an unfinished drawing tries to steal all of the world's color.

Director: Frank Gladstone
Screenwriter: Jess Kedward, J.P. McCormick, Kirsty Peart, Rich Raczelowski, Evan Spiliotopoulos
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Exodus Film Group, Toonz Entertainment
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 3, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 26, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.0K

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