On their return trip through France, Charlie Brown and the gang visit various memorials to the World Wars.On their return trip through France, Charlie Brown and the gang visit various memorials to the World Wars.On their return trip through France, Charlie Brown and the gang visit various memorials to the World Wars.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
- Charlie Brown
- (voice)
- Marcie
- (voice)
- French Madam
- (voice)
- Snoopy
- (voice)
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- TriviaThis TV special was the epilogue for the fourth Peanuts theatrical film, Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) (1980).
- GoofsWhen Charlie Brown gets in the car after he first injures his hand while cranking the Car at the Rent a car place, Linus is in the back seat, but when they leave the Rent A Car Place and Run into the French Girl on the bike, Linus is in the Front seat
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Charlie Brown: Remember when Linus and Marcy and Peppermint Patty and I went to France as exchange students?
Sally Brown: And your dog, how did he get to go along?
Charlie Brown: Who knows? Who knows how he does anything he does?
Sally Brown: You never told me what happened, I mean after the fire at the Chateau, you never told me how you got home. And did you learn anything? What did you learn?
Charlie Brown: What did we learn? That reminds me of something that Linus said.
- ConnectionsFeatured in It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1985)
As far as the movie goes, any plot is clearly secondary to the point of the movie which is to educate youngsters about the Allied invasion of France and to a lesser extent the World War I events at Ypres and Flanders. The film is most successful in this respect with, (as usual) Linus as the champion. The images shown during his descriptions of the D-Day invasion are powerful and interestingly very atypical of the usual Peanuts animation style. Actual combat photography is used, although it is transformed into two-tone color images. The use of the red imagery is powerful in the battle scenes (it seems odd discussing battle scenes in a review of a Charlie Brown movie).The film does a solid job of educating and instilling awe, sorrow and compassion for the men who fought the battles discussed.
Seriousness aside, the other parts of the film are typical Peanuts fare: Charlie Brown gets hurt a lot, Snoopy is in charge and gets into trouble, Linus is the scholar, etc. These parts made my 4-year old son laugh. But more important, it made him start asking questions about what the gang was doing, who the bad guys were and if any good guys got killed. These questions mark the beginning of an understanding of magnitude of the effects of World War II and the lives forever altered and ended by that conflict. In this respect, the movie is a resounding success and deserves the ten stars I gave it.
- sbertolino
- Sep 27, 2001
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