Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Trombone Shorty | ... | Miss Othmar / Mrs. Little Red-Haired Girl (voice) (as Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews) | |
Rebecca Bloom | ... | Marcie (voice) | |
Anastasia Bredikhina | ... | Patty (voice) | |
Francesca Capaldi | ... | The Little Red-Haired Girl / Frieda (voice) (as Francesca Angelucci Capaldi) | |
Kristin Chenoweth | ... | Fifi (voice) | |
Alex Garfin | ... | Linus (voice) | |
Noah Johnston | ... | Schroeder (voice) | |
Bill Melendez | ... | Snoopy / Woodstock (voice) (archive sound) | |
Hadley Belle Miller | ... | Lucy (voice) | |
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Micah Revelli | ... | Little Kid (voice) |
Noah Schnapp | ... | Charlie Brown (voice) | |
Venus Schultheis | ... | Peppermint Patty (voice) (as Venus Omega Schultheis) | |
Mariel Sheets | ... | Sally (voice) | |
Madisyn Shipman | ... | Violet (voice) | |
A.J. Tecce | ... | Pigpen (voice) (as AJ Tecce) |
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole gang are back in a heartwarming story. A new girl with red hair moves in across the street, and Charlie Brown falls in love. Now he tries to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl to make her feel like he's a winner, but Charlie Brown just can't do anything right. At the same time, Snoopy is writing a love story about his continuing battles with The Red Baron. Then Charlie Brown has accomplished something never done before. He gets a perfect score on his standardized test, but there has been a mistake. Should he tell the truth and risk losing all of his newfound popularity? Can Charlie Brown get the girl to love him, or will he go back to being a nothing? Written by Adam Nunez
I loved the Peanuts half hour TV specials as a kid, particularly Halloween and Christmas. I make my kids watch them each year and they enjoy them. We have also watched at least one fuller length movie made some time ago (about a spelling bee?) that ran a little too long. Before the specials even existed I loved the Peanuts comic strips. This movie handled the characters great, no complaint there. I just got part way through and said okay where are we going with this and how much is left. So maybe the bottom line is Peanuts is more effective in small doses than in a full length movie. They seemed to realize that in having a short movie to start and keeping the running time down. Of the story lines the best (and the one that could be enjoyed the longest) was the Snoopy WWI theme. But the bottom line is that it may be hard to make this work for an hour or more no matter how you do it, even if you have stupendous graphics. In any event, nice to see a new generation of Schulz's carrying the torch.
P.S. In watching some of the older shows recently, I remembered that the best of the TV shows was where they basically just strung a bunch of the daily cartoons together, rather than tell a traditional story. Charles Schulz was a cartoon genius, and had a penchant for running a series of consecutive strips on the same subject, sort of a continual story with a daily punch line, which is directly transferable to the screen. Maybe they could go back to that format next time around?