''The Hero of Color City'' (also known as ''The Hero of Colour City'' in the UK) is a 2014 computer-animated musical

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directed by Frank Gladstone and written by Jess Kedward, J.P. McCormick, Kirsty Peart, and Rich Raczelowski. The film stars the voice talents of Christina Ricci,

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, Rosie Perez,

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, Craig Ferguson,

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, and David Kaye. Original songs and score by Zoë Poledouris and Angel Roché Jr. The film follows Yellow, a yellow crayon and her gang of other crayons who find themselves living in a crayon box to save the unfinished drawings and her dinosaur-like trash can, The Great Waste. The Hero of Color City was released in a limited theatrical engagement on October 3, 2014 by

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, followed by releases on streaming and video platforms. This film was panned by critics.

Synopsis

Every night when Ben goes to bed, his crayons come to life and set out to Color City. Yellow, a timid crayon afraid of everything, accidentally summons two unfinished drawings known as King Scrawl and his sidekick Gnat. The crayons are forced to act quickly in order to save their town before their colors fade.

Cast

* Christina Ricci as

Yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In the ...

, a yellow crayon who loves to live in color city **

as Yellow's singing voice * Rosie Perez as

Red Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...

, a red crayon who also loves to live in color city * Jeremy Guskin as Professor Heliotrope/

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White o ...

Grey Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed o ...

Orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower *Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum * ...

Green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combi ...

, a green crayon who likes to draw stuff *

Blue Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when ...

, a blue crayon who also likes to draw stuff * Sophia Eraklis as

Purple Purple is any of a variety of colors with hue between red and blue. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purples are produced by mixing red and blue light. In the RYB color model historically used by painters, ...

, a purple crayon * Zoë Bright as Madame Pink, a pink crayon *

as Bumble Bee *

as Ricky, a fire-breathing dragon and the leader of the drawings. He is seen at the end of the film with Yellow and his assistant Duck. *

as Ben/Mom/Tutti Frutti/Neon Lime *

as Duck, a duck and Ricky's assistant * Craig Ferguson as Gnat, a gnat who is King Scrawl's advisor * David Kaye as

Black Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white ...

/King Scrawl *Robin Howard as

Tangerine The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color. Its scientific name varies. It has been treated as a separate species under the name ''Citrus tangerina'' or ''Citrus'' × ''tangerina'', or treated as a variety of ''Citrus retic ...

/ Periwinkle/ Aquamarine * John D. Eraklis as

Navy Blue Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with naval white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color ...

* Frank Gladstone as Refried Bean/Astronaut * Tom Lowell as

Brown Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors orange and black. In the RGB color model us ...

* Laura Lane as Horse * Zoe Bright as Opera Singer * Josh Gladstone as Cow

Reception

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, the film received a rating of 29%, based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 4.40/10. On

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, the film has a rating of 33 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Release

The Hero of Color City had a limited release on October 3, 2014. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 2, 2014.

References

External links

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