Noah Schnapp
Charlie Brown
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Nov 6, 2015 · With Trombone Shorty, Rebecca Bloom, Anastasia Bredikhina, Francesca Capaldi. Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their archnemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home to win the love of his life.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Steve Martino
- 2015-11-06
A 2015 animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film follows Charlie Brown's attempts to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl and Snoopy's adventures as a World War I Flying Ace.
Nov 6, 2015 · Watch Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Peanuts gang in a hilarious and heartwarming adventure on Disney+. Stream the film, enjoy over an hour of extras and shop for merchandise.
- Steve Martino
- Noah Schnapp
- Overview
- Plot
- Cast
- Differences from the strip and TV specials
- Home media
- Spin-offs
- Notes
- Goofs
(Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie in the United Kingdom and Australia) is a 2015 American computer-animated comedy film based on Peanuts that was released on November 6, 2015, around the sixty-fifth anniversary of the debut of the comic strip and the fiftieth anniversary of the first Peanuts television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Written and produced by Charles M. Schulz's son, Craig, his grandson, Bryan, and Cornelius Uliano, it was animated by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, and directed by Steve Martino, the director of Horton Hears a Who! and Ice Age: Continental Drift.
The teaser trailer for the movie was released on March 18, 2014, along with the official website and logo of the movie.
The full trailer was released online on November 18, 2014 and the trailer hit theatres on Thanksgiving Day 2014.
was rated G by the Motion Picture Association of America and U by the British Board of Film Classification.
Charlie Brown has grown fed up with losing constantly. Though his best friend Linus van Pelt and his dog Snoopy encourage him to continue, Lucy van Pelt and the rest of the neighborhood tell him to give up after Charlie Brown’s attempt to fly a kite across the skating pond goes awry. However, everything changes upon a new kid - the Little Red-Haired Girl - moves across the street from Charlie Brown, motivating him to impress her now that he has a clean slate.
While visiting Lucy at her psychiatric booth, she gives him a book on how to become a winner. Over a few days, Charlie Brown attempts to follow the book’s advice, only for his bad luck to interfere; he enters the school talent show after practicing his magic act relentlessly, only to give up his spot to help his little sister, Sally, after her act goes wrong. His next attempt is to practice dancing for the school’s Winter Dance, after seeing the Little Red-Haired Girl dance through her windows. At the dance, he is about to win the dance contest alongside the Little Red-Haired Girl, but a slip of his shoe causes it to fly off and hit the gym’s sprinkler system, ruining the dance and leaving Charlie Brown soaked and alone.
The next day, the class is assigned to do a book report with partners, and Charlie Brown is assigned to work with the Little Red-Haired Girl, who is out of town to take care of her sick grandmother. He then decides to write the book report for the two of them while she’s away. Suddenly, the results of a recent school test show that Charlie Brown got a perfect 100%, much to everyone’s disbelief and Lucy’s denial. This soon causes Charlie Brown’s popularity to skyrocket, with the children coming to him for advice, wanting his autograph, touring his home hosted by Sally, and even wearing matching outfits for his signature shirt. But Charlie Brown grows bothered by the popularity and focuses on reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace for his and the Little Red-Haired Girl’s report throughout the weekend, completing it the night before it is due.
The next morning, Charlie Brown is about to be awarded a pendant for his test score performance, but upon being handed back his test, realizes that his test was mixed up with his classmate, Peppermint Patty. In defeat, Charlie Brown announces to the whole school that there had been a mistake, and walks out of the auditorium in shame. Outside, Linus commends him for his honesty and attempts to cheer him up that things could get better once he turns in his book report, something the Little Red-Haired Girl overhears and asks about. However, an accident with the see-saw causes the report to launch in the air and become destroyed by a toy plane launched by Charlie Brown earlier in the film. With nothing left, Charlie Brown walks off with no motivation.
This depressed state continues until the spring when after helping a little boy with his kite successfully, Charlie Brown grows hopeful again. On the last day of school, the class is assigned a Summer Pen-Pal Project, where the Little Red-Haired Girl volunteers to be Charlie Brown’s pen-pal, much to Charlie Brown’s shock and confusion. Later on, Linus tells him that it may be time for him to consider that he is a good person and that people do like him, but he’ll never know if he doesn’t ask. Motivated, Charlie Brown rushes to the Little Red-Haired Girl’s house, only for her mother to answer and inform him that the Little Red-Haired Girl is at school, getting on a bus for summer camp.
Charlie Brown rushes through the school’s carnival, but obstacle after obstacle keeps blocking him from getting to the school bus. Moping near the Kite-Eating Tree, a kite falls, gets tangled around Charlie Brown, and causes him to fly above the carnival. Once landing on the ground, Charlie Brown finally gets the kite tamed. The neighborhood is shocked Charlie Brown has finally achieved the impossible and follows behind.
•Noah Schnapp – Charlie Brown, the main protagonist. Sick of his constant failures, he strives to become a winner to win the Little Red-Haired Girl's heart.
•Hadley Belle Miller – Lucy, the meanest girl in the neighborhood, Charlie Brown's foil, and Linus' older sister. She advises Charlie Brown on how to become a winner, though she's extremely doubtful and ridicules his attempts.
•Mariel Sheets – Sally, Charlie Brown's little sister. She pines for Linus, who she calls "Sweet Babboo", much to his embarrassment. She refers to Charlie Brown as "Big Brother".
•Alexander Garfin – Linus, Charlie Brown's best friend, and Lucy's little brother. He encourages Charlie Brown's success and advice that his happiness shouldn't be derived from success.
•Bill Melendez and Frank Welker – Snoopy - Charlie Brown's faithful yet mischievous beagle - and Woodstock (archival recordings) - a yellow bird and Snoopy's best friend. When Snoopy is not at Charlie Brown's aid, he sits on top of his doghouse alongside Woodstock, writing his story of battling the Red Baron in the Great War.
•Francesca Angelucci Capaldi – the Little Red-Haired Girl - the new girl in Charlie Brown's class, Charlie Brown's neighbor/crush - and Frieda - the vain girl of the neighborhood. The Little Red-Haired Girl's affection is Charlie Brown's goal, who wants to impress her by succeeding. Frieda is constantly making sure her "naturally curly hair" stays in check.
•As of this movie, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Franklin are in the same class as the rest of the gang while in the strip they attend a different school.
•In the film, at the children's school, there is a cafeteria, while in the comic strip the school does not have one built, so the children eat outside.
•Characters that became prominent in the strip during later years, such as Rerun, Lucy and Linus' little brother, Eudora, Sally's best friend, and Lydia, Linus' talkative classmate, are absent. (Although one of the comic strip panels during the credits features Rerun)
•Fifi has never appeared in the comic strip, rather than appearing in the 1980 television special, Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown (in the special, she is a fully white poodle with a pink collar and bow, while in the movie she is redesigned to look similar to Snoopy, with pink clusters of curls on top of her head and one each on the end of her ears, light pink freckles, purple kerchief, and a purple scarf).
•The Little Red-Haired Girl makes a physical appearance while she never appears outside of a silhouette in 1998 in the comic strip.
•Some of the characters' outfits have been updated from the specials:
Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film were released on March 8, 2016. The film was also made available for digital streaming.
Special Features include:
•Six Snoopy Snippets
•"Better When I'm Dancin'" Meghan Trainor music and lyric videos
•You Never Grow Up Charlie Brown (three behind the scenes features)
•Snoopy's Sibling Salute
A video game based on the film, The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure, was announced on July 8, 2015, and was released on November 3, 2015, just three days before the movie was released.
The book The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie (ISBN 1783293241) was published by Titan Books on October 27, 2015.
•This is the first Peanuts production to be CGI.
•This is the first Peanuts animation to not have either Charlie Brown or Snoopy in the title.
•After over 60 years of misery and failure, Charlie Brown finally gets a well-deserved victory. His dream, from the first movie, to prove he is a winner has come true.
•Archival recordings of Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock are used in the film.
•This is the Little Red-Haired Girl's first speaking role.
•This is the first theatrical full-length Peanuts film since 1980's Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!).
•At the summer fair, Charlie Brown gets in the way of Violet in one of the games. She remarks in Lucy's voice.
•When Charlie Brown is learning to dance using the foot markers laid down by Snoopy, he counts; "1, 2, 3, 4" but as he says "4" he puts his left foot down on the marker that says "3". Of course this is what we'd expect from Charlie Brown ...
•During the dance scene where no one was dancing, Peppermint Patty was among the group of girls, then when Charlie Brown opened the door, she reappears along with Marcie, holding the fruit punch.
•Charlie's hands get covered in ink while writing his book report. He then wipes his hands on his shirt creating the characteristic zig-zag pattern. However, in all subsequent shots, the pattern disappears and his shirt is again a solid color with no pattern.
•When Charlie Brown goes to bed after writing his book report, while he is getting into bed we can see some notes beside his window sill. However, when Sally comes in and wakes him a few seconds later, the notes have vanished.
•When the Little Red-Haired Girl's pencil falls on the floor it rolls in a straight line between the desks towards the back of the room. As it has a wider section on the end, it should roll in a curve.
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The Peanuts Movie offers a colorful gateway into the world of its classic characters and a sweetly nostalgic -- if relatively unambitious -- treat for the adults who grew up with them. Read...
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- Steve Martino
- G
- Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
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