oscaralbert Review of The Peanuts Movie

The Peanuts Movie (2015)

This flick reveals that the key to "acing" standardized tests . . .

[7/10 · 10 November 2015]

. . . is to sign the answer sheet of the person (here, Peppermint Patty) who correctly guesses which connect-the-dots animal represents a perfect score on that day's fill-in-the-bubble sheet. As THE PEANUTS MOVIE implicitly documents, test graders obviously are much too busy to scan scores of individual answers on hundreds of bubble answer sheets one-by-one, especially if there is no visual pattern formed by correct answers. If a 100% perfect test effort neatly depicts a zebra or a giraffe, this makes it much easier for graders to detect genius at a single glance (obtained serendipitously by Charlie Brown through his test sheet Switcheroo). This also makes it possible for a well-trained test proctor to eyeball an imperfect score sheet, and assign it a "ballpark" final score depending upon how much it deviates from that day's "lucky" platypus or wallaby, as the case might be. Again, this method of coming up with standardized test results is far superior to unrealistically expecting scorers to stay awake and alert while checking thousands upon thousands of randomly filled-in "bubbles," which have no geometrically intrinsic reason to be either "right" or "wrong."