6/10
My opinion of Peanuts - the movie is mixed like the strings of a puppet master.
11 February 2016
Warning: Spoilers
My opinions we're mixed when I started walking to the movie theater. My mother and the newspaper said that it is bad, while IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes and AniMat said it was good. And my opinion was a mixture of both.

The movie plot does not really seem like it's in the movie, and if it is there, it feels very thin. Charlie Brown goes making use of, a Self Help book, the help of Lucy's therapeutic advances and Snoopy, to get the attention of the small red-haired girl. And in between is Snoopy's adventures in the world of women trying to defeat the Red Baron at the same time. And between them is mandatory burden pop songs.

My opinion of Peanuts - the movie is mixed like the strings of a puppet master.The film has it's moments, for example, in one scene Charlie goes reading the about 1500 pages of War and Peace during a one weekend, which I thought was clever and amusing and I founded myself laughing at the normal slipping and falling as I usually do. But it still does not quite place movie mistakes, which is clichés, too small characters, who do not have a lot of meaning and ... and THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF THE FILM WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN! AARGHHH!!!!

The error is therefore the presenting of Charlie Brown's luck. All Peanuts-comic book fans (including me), probably were expecting something new or big surprises. And almost, almost as it happens. Charlie Brown succeeds! Properly! All though he succeeds at the end. (well get to that later), but the movie almost lets Charlie Brown to success, but pulls the rug under his feet at the last moment. I was, myself at least very very irritated.

The plot also stumbles a little, and did not really aim at anything. Snoopy's flight scenes are also quite unnecessary, and it is only an attempt to fill moments. Although Snoopy's scenes are beautiful and wonderful to look at, it is painfully boring. I found myself yawning and leaning on my fist during the scenes.

And now the end. At the end of the movie, CB takes finally the tip from Linus (which appeared way too little) and decides to go to the small red-haired girl's house (cliché). There, the sordino voice speaking adult tells him that the girl has gone to a summer camp (cliché) and the bus leaves soon (also a cliché).

Animation style has to be granted yes, although I like more the original Peanuts animations in simple style. This new one looks different, you get used to it easily and it helps to advance the movie. Sometimes there is also a cartoon-like visual effects, which comes with a nice feeling, as reading the original comic feels like. I still need to add: Why the film doesn't do things of the original comics? Charlie's and Lucy's football trick is performed once at the beginning and Charlie's baseball failures only at the beginning once. The film also raised Joe's self-esteem, It's supposed to be low!

At the end, The Peanuts movie is '' nice '', kind of pleasant, mainly for children, candy vomit colored, clichéd and yet again a mediocre film from Blue Sky, although having some nice moments.
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