The Peanuts Movie Reviews

I never grow up with the peanuts comics, but i know very well beacuse for Snoopy. When i heard about this movie, i wasn't intresting but then i saw in the cinema and it wasn't dissipointed. Blue Sky really proves they can made a great adaption for Peanuts that better to do another anoying and stupid Ice Age sequel. The movie really shows to be very escencial to the comics, and it is. The animation is great, from the backgrounds and the disengs of the characters are really great. The comedy they use is slasptick and is really funny. Even the characters are really funny and it know who they are. Also, the story even is not so original, is really good. The subplot of Snoopy chasing the Red Baron to save Fifi it was Ok. And the ending scene whit Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the gang it was beautiful. And whit the honesty of the Little Red Haried Girl makes the scene really touching and charming. It i had one problem with the movie may be the emoctional scenes. I mean they not bad, but they could be a little bit more long to feel sorry for Charlie Brown. But what can i say about this movie, is just really funny, charming and great. The Peanuts Movie is defently one of the greatest movie of the animation. To bad to don't get the Oscar nomination, but i had a great time to watch this movie. So yeah, your CGI Movie is really great, Charlie Brown :)

It’s only when it makes concessions to modernity that The Peanuts Movie really stumbles. Other than these few moments, it’s a sweet, innocent blast of nostalgia, never withholding from the melancholy and defeat that permeates the comic strips. It won’t rival any of the now classic TV specials, but it’s a welcome return from Charlie Brown and the gang.

 

The plot is a loosely interconnected series of episodes regarding Charlie Brown trying to gain the attention of the Little Red-Haired Girl. The Peanuts Movie reassembles the greatest hits of the comics and specials, mainly that Charlie Brown can’t win at life, and Snoopy has a rich imaginative life. The stakes are demonstrably low, and that’s almost refreshing in a way. There’s no fate of the world in the balance, just trying to survive a year of elementary school.

 

The trade-off then is that we must now witness Charlie Brown and company in 3D computer animation, which captures the essence of Charles Schulz’s drawings, but forsakes some of the heart and spirit that the hand-drawn animation provided. This becomes a major problem in the extended Red Baron sequences, which play very large and broad in comparison to the smallness of the main story. These Red Baron sequences play like Porco Rosso intruding upon the tender moments of character connection.

 

Even worse are the presence of modern pop songs from Meghan Trainor and Flo Rida. These pop songs feel like arm-shrugging efforts to appeal to younger audiences of today. The Peanuts gang belong out-of-time, and scored to Vince Guaraldi. Much better is the general music score by Christophe Beck, which finds a way to incorporate pieces of Guaraldi’s famous pieces while expanding off into his own textures and sounds.

 

Much like the comics, The Peanuts Movie excels when it narrows it focus on the various characters interacting and learning from each other. A talent show performance by Sally is saved by the intervention of Charlie, and it’s uplifting in its depiction of sibling togetherness and love. Or Snoopy helping Charlie Brown learn how to dance in an effort to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl. These moments are sweet, empathetic, and tinged with real expressions of friendship and support.

 

And many of them are cut down by Charlie Brown’s inevitable defeats, yet he still manages to stay his courageous self. For all of the knocks Charlie takes throughout this, and for all of his neurosis, he still manages to get back up and try again. The climatic meeting between him and the Little Red-Haired Girl is a well-earned and hard fought bit of happy ending fulfillment in which she tells him that she respects him for being selfless, caring, and honest. A credits sequences has Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, but it can’t sour our hero’s innate goodness. The Peanuts Movie may lack for ambition, but it places its emphasis on the heart, character, and bittersweet snapshots of our perennial neurotic Charlie Brown.

I've always liked Charlie Brown stuff. Snoopy is just awesome. The one gripe I have though is I don't really like the animation. I prefer the classic cartoon style. Anyways I still wanted to see this adventure unfold. Steve Martino is a pretty good cartoon director with Ice Age: Continental Drift (along with the Scrat shorts) and Horton Hears a Who. I think it's awesome as well that Schulz's family wrote some of this. This seems to be the only work by the other writer Cornelius Uliano though. I think it's awesome that they didn't replace Bill Melendez as it's unnecessary. I appreciated the logo opening with Schroeder playing the piano. Kites plus winter don't really add up lol. That fence was pointless anyways. Aww poor Snoopy. Kids are silly. Woodstock is probably how most kids would have felt about that haha. That face is the face of nightmares. Okay maybe not, but yeah it doesn't make you comfortable. Okay the gags throughout are pretty amusing. I haven't seen that dance in so many years! It's interesting that they don't really show the girls face even though I'm pretty sure she looks like just about all the girls. Oh how some mistakes can create legends lol. "Following in the footsteps of greatness." Lol that line was too funny. The right thing doesn't always make a good impression. Good grief that's some bad luck. That's gotta be pretty awkward. Haha oh that was a nice little reference. Yeah that was pretty much what I expected. It has a few scenes during the credits and one after them too. It's a cute movie with a lot of homage to the original works, but it adds it's own little quirkiness as well. It wasn't really anything spectacular though. It's nostalgic and that's really what makes it enjoyable in my opinion.