The Hero Of Color City [2014]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

So Kay was on vacation for three weeks and two of those three weeks it was Good Movie Night instead of Bad Movie Night. Last week the movie was "Jurassic Attack: The Final Battle" or "Rise of the Dinosaurs" (the box and the DVD were in direct conflict) which got a spoon rating of five. The movie was purchased at the dollar store, and we had three other dollar store finds to pick from today. We settled on "The Hero of Color City," a kids movie that is a pretty clear rip-off of "Toy Story" influenced by the popular children's book  "The Day The Crayons Quit" about how crayons and drawings come alive when a kid is asleep.

The premise is simple: two uncolored drawings of a king and bug go into a crayon box after hours to enter Color City and this somehow threatens the saturation of all the colors so they have to stop them or something. Literally the goal of the movie was explained by this annoying, mumbling crayon called Professor Heliotrope (although he was lavender) and we all managed to miss the point but not the stakes. The titular hero is Yellow, a very scared crayon who saves the day. The rest of the crew consists of Blue who's "cool", Green who's an organization freak, Red who's sassy, White who is sad about his lack of use, and Black who is monotone and lowkey emo (he's by far the funniest character). They all go on a really unexciting adventure that only lasts an hour and ten minutes and is padded with songs that do nothing for the story. There's really nothing more to explain except that there's this scene where they encounter a bunch of other unfinished drawings and color them in and there's something really horrifying about watching them pick each other up to color.

The best parts about the movie have nothing at all to do with the movie proper. When we first put in the DVD we were rivetted by the welcome screen where the uncolored king drawing keeps poking his head into the screen and groaning (because he doesn't have a mouth). We watched it for about ten minutes. After the movie, we watched cast interviews and they were wild. Christina Ricci played Yellow, and she is struggling to find something significant to say about this flimsy excuse for a movie while also waiting for her Ambien to kick in. Sean Austin played Bumblebee (literally the Bumblebee Tuna mascot because product placement) and he waxes poetic forever about who even knows what. Finally Craig Ferguson played the bug drawing and he basically jokes around the whole time, well aware of how poor the movie is but he's getting a paycheck damnit. 

Keith's Review: Color me confused.

Spoon Rating: 4