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'''''The Peanuts Movie''''', also known as '''''Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie''''', is a 2015 American ] ] ] produced by ] and distributed by ] based on ]'s ] '']''. The film is directed by ] and written by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano, and features the voices of Noah Schnapp and ] (via archival recordings). It is the fifth full-length feature film to be based on the comic, and the first feature film based on the characters in 35 years. It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and 50th anniversary of the TV special '']'', and is scheduled to be released on November 6, 2015. The film sees ] go on a life-changing quest.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://screenrant.com/peanuts-movie-2015-voice-cast-posters/|title = 'The Peanuts Movie' Synopsis, Voice Cast and New Poster Revealed|date = |accessdate = December 20, 2014|website = Screenrant.com}}</ref> '''''The Peanuts Movie''''', also known as '''''Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie''''', is a 2015 American ] ] ] produced by ] and distributed by ] based on ]'s ] '']''. The film is directed by ] and written by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano, and features the voices of Noah Schnapp and ] (via archival recordings). It is the fifth full-length feature film to be based on the comic, and the first feature film based on the characters in 35 years. It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and 50th anniversary of the TV special '']'', and is scheduled to be released on November 6, 2015. The film sees ] go on a life-changing quest.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://screenrant.com/peanuts-movie-2015-voice-cast-posters/|title = 'The Peanuts Movie' Synopsis, Voice Cast and New Poster Revealed|date = |accessdate = December 20, 2014|website = Screenrant.com}}</ref>


==Premise== ==Plot==
On the first snow day of winter, all the Peanut kids, like messy ], soft-spoken, somewhat odd ], his aggressive sister ], ignorant ], and cute ], head out for a day of fun in the snow. Among the group of children is Sally's melancholy, hapless older brother, Charlie Brown, who wishes to be acknowledged as a big shot. Lucy advises him to try and change who he is. He tries to change his lucky by playing baseball with snowman set up by his dog, Snoopy, only for it to surprisingly backfire. The kids soon discover that a new kid is moving into their neighborhood and Charlie, upon daydreaming about his ambition to turn his life around, accidentally destroys the fence when leaning on it.
] goes up against his nemesis, the Red Baron, while ] tries to win the affection of the ], who has just moved to the neighborhood.<ref name="LATimesApr2015" />

Later, at school, the new kid is revealed to be a ], who Charlie becomes deeply infatuated with.<ref name="LATimesApr2015" />


==Cast and characters== ==Cast and characters==

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2015 American film
The Peanuts Movie
File:ThePeanutsMoviePoster.jpgTheatrical release poster
Directed bySteve Martino
Written by
  • Bryan Schulz
  • Craig Schulz
  • Cornelius Uliano
Produced by
  • Craig Schulz
  • Bryan Schulz
  • Cornelius Uliano
  • Paul Feig
  • Michael J. Travers
Starring
CinematographyRenato Falcão
Edited byRandy Trager
Music byChristophe Beck
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01) (New York City premiere)
  • November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06) (United States)
Running time93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100 million

The Peanuts Movie, also known as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie, is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. The film is directed by Steve Martino and written by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano, and features the voices of Noah Schnapp and Bill Melendez (via archival recordings). It is the fifth full-length feature film to be based on the comic, and the first feature film based on the characters in 35 years. It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas, and is scheduled to be released on November 6, 2015. The film sees Charlie Brown go on a life-changing quest.

Plot

On the first snow day of winter, all the Peanut kids, like messy Pig-Pen, soft-spoken, somewhat odd Linus van Pelt, his aggressive sister Lucy van Pelt, ignorant Peppermint Patty, and cute Sally Brown, head out for a day of fun in the snow. Among the group of children is Sally's melancholy, hapless older brother, Charlie Brown, who wishes to be acknowledged as a big shot. Lucy advises him to try and change who he is. He tries to change his lucky by playing baseball with snowman set up by his dog, Snoopy, only for it to surprisingly backfire. The kids soon discover that a new kid is moving into their neighborhood and Charlie, upon daydreaming about his ambition to turn his life around, accidentally destroys the fence when leaning on it.

Later, at school, the new kid is revealed to be a Little Red-Haired Girl, who Charlie becomes deeply infatuated with.

Cast and characters

Kristin Chenoweth, who won a Tony Award for her protrayal of Sally Brown in the 1999 Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, voices Fifi, Snoopy's love interest. Chenoweth created "a series of conversational-like sounds" to create Fifi's language, using Melendez's Snoopy recordings as a guide, and making his sounds more feminine. Trombone Shorty provides the "wah-wah" voices for Miss Othmar / Mrs. Little Red-Haired Girl, along with the other adult characters in the film.Other characters expected to appear include Snoopy's brother Olaf, and Frieda.

Production

Director Steve Martino presented the film in the work-in-progess session at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

In 2006, six years after the release of the last original Peanuts strip, as well as the death of creator Charles M. Schulz, his son Craig Schulz came up with an idea for a Peanuts film, which he showed to his screenwriter son Bryan Schulz. "I was happy to show my son," Craig said. "He showed me how to make it bigger—how to blow it up more—and he helped me put in structure." When presenting their film to studios, Craig stipulated that the film remain under Schulz control, saying, "We need to have absolute quality control and keep it under Dad’s legacy... You can’t bring people in from the outside and expect them to understand Peanuts." On October 9, 2012, it was announced that 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios were developing a 3D computer-animated feature film based on the strip, with Steve Martino directing from the screenplay by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano. Craig, Bryan, and Uliano are also producing. Craig, claiming there is no one "more protective of the comic strip than myself," chose Martino as director because he showed faithfulness to classics in his adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!.

On the film's plot, Martino said: "Here's where I lean thematically. I want to go through this journey... Charlie Brown is that guy who, in the face of repeated failure, picks himself back up and tries again. That's no small task. I have kids who aspire to be something big and great... a star football player or on Broadway. I think what Charlie Brown is—what I hope to show in this film—is the everyday qualities of perseverance... to pick yourself back up with a positive attitude—that's every bit as heroic... as having a star on the Walk of Fame or being a star on Broadway. That's the core. This is a feature film story that has a strong dramatic drive, and takes its core ideas from the strip." Martino and his animators spent over a year looking at Charles Schulz' original drawing style to help translate the "hand-drawn warmth... into the cool pixel-precision of CGI" without the fear of something getting lost in translation, such as "how the dot of an eye joy or sorrow so efficiently". In addition to receiving the rights to use Bill Melendez's voice for Snoopy and Woodstock, Martino was also able to get the rights to archive music from previous Peanuts specials. Classic locations are featured, such as Charlie Brown's skating pond, his house, "the wall" and Lucy's psychiatrist booth, each retaining their "eternal look of the strip." Additionally, despite being outdated technology, rotary phones and typewriters are seen, as well as Lucy's psychiatrist booth still costing a nickel. Adult characters "wah-wah" voices are represented by a trombone with a plunger mute, as in previous Peanuts media, courtesy of New Orleans jazz musician Trombone Shorty. Because of the robust number of existing Peanuts characters, the film does not introduce any new characters.

On January 8, 2013, Leigh Anne Brodsky became the managing director of Peanuts Worldwide and was set to control all the global deals for the film. In April 2013, Fox announced that the film would be released in 3D. In October 2013, it was announced that Paul Feig would also produce. By April 2015, 75% of the animation was complete, with some footage scheduled to debut at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

Music

Main article: The Peanuts Movie (soundtrack)
David Benoit, the jazz musician who is best known for his own rendition of Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy", contributed to the score done by Christophe Beck.

In October 2014, it was revealed that Christophe Beck would score the film. Beck stated, "With the Peanuts movies, I grew up on those specials from the '60s and '70s, that, of course, rerun to this day. I'm very fond of all that Vince Guaraldi music, so what we did was try to find spots in the film where we could sort of touch down and remind people who were watching the film that it's still a Peanuts movie, and there's still a place for that music in the film. There's a bunch of spots where we quote the Guaraldi music, or we actually re-record his pieces quite faithfully." He also added that the score would be more orchestral than Guaraldi's previous scores, which were mainly a small jazz combo. Jazz pianist David Benoit contributed to Beck's score.

On July 28, 2015, it was announced that pop artist Meghan Trainor was writing and performing a song for the film, entitled "Better When I'm Dancin'". Epic Records released the soundtrack album on October 23, 2015. The 20-track album features Trainor's "Better When I'm Dancin", Flo Rida's "That's What I Like" featuring Fitz, "Linus and Lucy", "Skating" and "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi from the A Charlie Brown Christmas album, and 15 of Beck's original score for the film. An exclusive edition of the soundtrack released at Target features a second Trainor track, "Good to Be Alive".

Release

The Peanuts Movie held its premiere in New York City on November 1, 2015, and is scheduled to be released on November 6, 2015 on 3,890 screens. The release commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas and was originally scheduled for November 25, 2015, before being rescheduled to November 6, 2015 in November 2012. The film will be released as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie in the United Kingdom and Australia in late December 2015.

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, the film is projected to gross $40–44 million, with some estimates projecting higher.

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 86% approval rating with an average rating of 7/10 based on 21 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has received a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The Hollywood Reporter's Michael Rechtshaffen found the film to be especially praiseworthy, feeling that Charles Schulz would have been proud of this film, though criticized the use of Trainor's song in an otherwise good use of Guaraldi's themes with Beck's score. Peter Debrige of Variety gave similar sentiments, especially praising the animation of the film. Alonso Duralde of TheWrap felt the film made a nice transition to 3D, saying, while the film might not reach "the melancholy of earlier films... it nonetheless respects the importance of failure and disappointment that Schulz always included in his storytelling." He did, however, feel that Peanuts purists would take issue with a few things in the film, such as seeing and hearing so much of the Little Red-Haired Girl, who was always off panel in the comic strips, and Peppermint Patty acknowledging that Snoopy is a dog and not just a kid with a big nose (even though, unbeknownst to him, Marcie told her that Snoopy was a beagle in the latter years of the strip). Pete Hammond from Deadline.com admitted his trepidation about translating the characters from 2D to 3D, but enjoyed the film overall, only criticizing the amount of fantasy sequences involving Snoopy. Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film three out of four stars, proclaiming the film "is all about simplicity, and what the plot lacks in nuance and complexity is made up for with relatable characters whom people have spent a lifetime watching. The movie is a testament to Charlie Brown’s place in pop culture and a showcase for a new generation bound to fall in love with its perennially insecure star."

Scott Mendelson from Forbes was more critical of the film, saying there was "nothing objectively wrong with The Peanuts Movie" but as he personally was not a fan of the Peanuts comic strip, that made him "anti-Charlie Brown", loathing each time he failed in the film. Joe McGovern from Entertainment Weekly was also not as receptive, giving the film a grade of C+, criticizing the animation, claiming, "Even if you assume that Schulz always wanted his frozen pond reflecting lustrous light and Snoopy frolicking in a lavish Hayao Miyazaki world, the animation steroids injected into the aesthetic here nonetheless shrivel the great melancholy that’s so key to the comic’s endurance."

Video game

A video game based on the film, titled The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure, was released on November 3, 2015 for Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 and published by Activision.

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