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2D animation just isn’t cool enough for today’s youths, which is why we now have a 3D animated Peanuts movie from Fox and Blue Sky Animation and producer Paul Feig, set for release November 2015, from Ice Age: Continental Drift and Horton Hears A Who co-director Steve Martino. Not surprisingly, it seems to focus a lot on Snoopy and Woodstock, and very little on Peppermint Patty and Marcy, or Lucy’s Psychology Booth.
For the first time ever, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz’s timeless “Peanuts” comic strip will be making their big-screen debut; like they’ve never been seen before in a CG-Animated Feature film in 3D.
Every once in a while, I’ll hear older folks talk about Charles Schulz and how subversive and brilliant Peanuts was in its prime, and it will be sad, because my first thought will be, “Wait, you mean the insurance mascot cartoons?”
Anyway, it’s sort of funny to hear people complain about “what they’ve done” to Peanuts in this new movie, when most of my generation has only ever experienced Peanuts as this copy of a copy of a copy cautionary tale about selling out in the first place.
That theme song is still awesome though.
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For whatever reason, this is in my cynicism blind spot. I genuinely want to see it.
I know right… it actually looks GOOD.
“…when most of my generation has only ever experienced Peanuts as this copy of a copy of a copy cautionary tale about selling out…”
Hilarious.
/uproxx
A Charlie Brown Christmas = best Christmas movie. * hides behind twig Christmas “tree” *
I wonder if Woodstock and crew will try and become the new “Minions”, since they’re all the rage these days.
When I was a kid visiting my grandmother’s house, there were only two good things about being there.
First, she had ALL the old Peanuts books, and they were amazing. I think I got an old Pogo book from her house too. I don’t know how much of that amazement was age.
Second, because she lived in Pleasanton, CA, she had more TV channels, and there were some weird Japanese TV shows on a couple of the channels. Spectreman and some thing with a giant golden robot with antennas and his wife that was I think silver and there was a baby giant robot too.
Anyway, I know you don’t ever read books, Vince, but if you ever wanted to understand Peanuts, that’s what you’d probably have to do. Cheers.
I’m not criticizing anyone for liking it or disagreeing that it might have been great once, I just never felt a pressing desire to delve into the canon of something that’s been a nostalgia generation machine/life insurance mascot since the time I was still pooping my pants. And by that I mean junior high.
I was always a bit put off and the extremes that Charles Schulz marketed Peanuts, but this might be going too far.
If I didn’t read Peanuts reruns in the comics section I would have thought Charlie Brown, Snoopy etc were specifically Hallmark merchandise.
Do you think the $400 I pay every six months in the envelope with Snoopy and Woodstock on it will get me a free ticket? I’ve never gotten in an accident.
Snoopy having rage issues and jamming Woodstock into a live current and laughing as he got electrocuted repeatedly was an interesting choice.