Sunday 15 November 2015

Anthony's movie review: The Peanuts movie



Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review. Have you guys remembered a comic strip called "Peanuts"?

Ah yes, this comic strip was first came out in 1950 in the dailies newspapers and created by the late Charles M. Schulz. It features with a lot of memorable characters, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder and of course, Snoopy and Woodstock. When the comic became popular, it going to make a cartoon special with the Peanuts gang on Television such as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". Which they both were nominated from Emmy awards.

I remembered read the books in library when i was like 6 year old. The only comic i remembered is a comic strip with Snoopy and Woodstock. Right before was focused on Garfield when i grew to 9. Oh well, i like them both in my childhood.

However, Charles passed away with his age of 77, the population of Peanuts is tone down after 50 years. But then, i saw a teaser of "The Peanuts movie" and it was done by an animation studio called "Blue Sky". When i saw it, i was anticipated to bring back the nostalgia. And this film came out for a 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas".

So, does this film will make a good tribute for Charles M. Schulz, or is this film make me wanna go "Good grief..."?

Lets find out.

The Story.
After i looked at all kinds of epic stories with fantasies, actions, or superheroes. It was time to go with a quiet and simple story. It tells about a lovable loser, Charlie Brown, going out to hang with his friends in park or in school. Suddenly, he sees a little red-haired girl in his class, he was fall in love and pretty nervous to meet her. So Charlie is gonna find the way to be in good luck to stop being a bad luck to meet up a girl with a help of his pet dog Snoopy. and also a confident help from Lucy (sorta).
I gotta say, the story was simple and quiet interesting. Even though its nice that i take a break of epic story. However, there might be a flaws of this movie. Which there's a subplot involve of Snoopy going on the fight against The Red Baron to save his love-interest pilot name Fifi. It was good one, but does this have to do with the main plot? Nothing. I think its because they're trying to bring back the nostalgia about the dogfight with Snoopy and The Red Baron, but who cares, because its Peanuts.

The animation.
The animation itself looks pretty cool. its colorful and great. blue Sky did a great job for the animation 2D style of the characters, to make similar from the TV special, but with CGI. Plus, it uses a hand-draw animation from a few parts, which its nice to bring them back, but it showed for some part like a seconds. Even though some part used a 3D animation part (including a Dogfight sequence), which i though it would be cool like in the cartoon, but again, it was done in computer graphic images.
Overall, the animation is was great for the 2D style of the characters (Especially they add an extra quality for their design like hairs and fur).

The characters
Im pretty you're always familiar of the characters. Charlie Brown is an unlucky kid, Snoopy is Charlie's pet dog for a help, he's also pilot and Woodstock's best friend, Lucy is a bossy and crabby girl, Linus is Lucy's brother and Charlie's best friend, Schroeder is a piano-player and admirer of Beethoven, Peppermint Patty is a tomboy girl, Marcie is a bookish girl and Patty's best friend, Pig-Pen the dirty kid , Franklin, an African-American kid who's also Charlie's friend and Frieda, a girl who loves her own curly hair. These characters are great and legendary if you ever looked in the comic strip.

There's a little red-haired girl, who's supposed to be Charlie's love-interest. The downside about her is that she has no personality until the end (Btw, it won't tell it, because of spoiler). Btw, is it just me is this girl looks like Peggy Jean?

Finally, there's Fifi, Snoopy's love-interest and also a pilot. though i have to admit, she looks pretty cute for a love-interest of Snoopy. Even though she's the only character who never appear from the book. Its kinda shame, but im ok for her.

Plus, the voice acting of of the kids is great. Those kids did a great job for a the role of the characters. For me, i'd say Noah Schnapp fits very good for Charlie's role. they also use a voice footage of Bill Melendez's role of Snoopy and Woodstock. I guess its because they use an archive voice to dedicated on Bill. Which i think they brought the voice archive to bring back the nostalgia in cartoon specials.

And now for my final opinion of the film.

Overall, The Peanuts movie is great to be back from the childhood with great characters, good work of animation and interesting story. Though it has a flaws with a subplot that has nothing to do with the main story and some characters have a missing personality.

Plus, it has a short film called "Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe", with Scrat in a UFO for some reason. Which apparently, it was a promotion of Ice Age: Collision Course. Even though i remembered the first and two ice age, they're funny and great. But when the later films came out, i felt that its getting old and boring. All i gotta say for the short film: Just skip it, im getting tired of boring jokes... T_T (0/10)

Anyway, this movie will earn 8.5/10. I recommend to watch the movie if you love Peanuts. If you probably never heard of, give a try to watch a movie or maybe read a comic strip.

So this ends of my review, if you guys have a suggestion or your opinion, send a comments bellow that i would like to read.

Thanks for reading and im Anthony, signing out. ;)

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