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| The Peanuts Movie | |
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| Directed by | Steve Martino |
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| Cinematography | Renato Falcão |
| Edited by | Randy Trager |
| Music by | Christophe Beck |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100 million |
| Box office | $53.5 million |
The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries 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 and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively), and Cornelius Uliano, and stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock. It is the fifth full-length Peanuts film, and the first feature film in 35 years. It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas, and was released on November 6, 2015.
The film sees Charlie Brown trying to impress his odds and the Little Red-Haired Girl. Meanwhile, Snoopy writes a book about the Flying Ace, as he tries to save his love interest and pilot, Fifi, from the Red Baron and his army.
The Peanuts Movie received positive reviews from critics and has earned over $53 million from the box office.
Plot
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In the beginning, Snoopy and Woodstock both reconcile, while Charlie Brown tries to unsuccessfully fly a kite, which leads to anger between others. Frustrated with his bad luck, he goes to Lucy, whom he is given the advice to be more confident. Soon, the Little Red-Haired Girl moves in, whom Charlie Brown develops a crush on. Inspired by his interest, Snoopy and Woodstock find a typewriter and after many attempts, write about Snoopy's persona, the Flying Ace and his bird crew, the Beagle Scouts, who meets his love interest and pilot Fifi. Charlie Brown later tries out for the talent show with a magic act to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl, but due to his sister Sally's failing performance, spares his time to help her, to embarrassing results. He later signs up for the school dance due to the Little Red-Haired Girl's interest in dance, being taught by Snoopy. At the dance, he is praised until he slips and starts the sprinkler system causing the other students to evacuate unexpectedly.
Charlie Brown is partnered with the Little Red-Haired Girl to write a book report, though has to finish it due to her absence at her sick grandmother's residence. Against Marcie's advice, he writes his report on the collegiate War and Peace. His luck improves when he is the only student to get a perfect score on a test and is overflowed with popularity. Confident, Charlie Brown completes the book report just in time. He is awarded a medal at the assembly and presented his test but is horrified to discover that the test is Peppermint Patty's, having drawn a smiley face ironically. Dejected, Charlie Brown admits that the test wasn't his, but Patty's, and declines the medal, thereby losing popularity. He worsens after his book report is destroyed by Linus's model of the Red Baron's plane, who is Snoopy's character's enemy, and using Linus, admits his failure to the Little Red-Haired Girl.
Meanwhile, Fifi is captured by the Red Baron's army, and the Flying Ace crashes in enemy territory. Cautious, he sneaks into multiple regions, who he in real life, hilariously runs into Sally at the door, Franklin in the bathtub, Peppermint Patty at the window while speaking to Charlie Brown about his weird behavior, and others. In the end, the Flying Ace and his crew defeat the army and rescue Fifi, while sabotaging the Red Baron's plane.
Spring arrives, as Charlie Brown becomes depressed with his failures. He later encounters a boy struggling with a kite and reluctantly helps him succeed. Before school is done for the summer, Charlie Brown is surprised when the Little Red-Haired Girl chooses him for a pen pal. After deciding with Linus, Charlie Brown realizes that he needs to talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl, what he had attempted. Racing to her house, he discovers that she is about to leave on the bus for summer camp. He tries to get to the bus, but is slowed down by a carnival. Just as he gives up, Charlie Brown sees a kite fall from the Kite-Eating Tree. The kite string becomes entangled around his legs, causing the kite to pull Charlie Brown to the bus. Amazed at him flying a kite without failing, the other students follow.
Upon reaching the bus, Charlie Brown finally asks the Little Red-Haired Girl why she chose him in spite of his failures. The Little Red-Haired Girl explains she chose him for his selflessness and praises him as an honest, caring, and compassionate person. After the two promise to write one another, Charlie Brown watches the bus carrying the Little Red-Haired Girl drive away. The other students, including Snoopy and Woodstock, crowd around him, while Lucy steps up. She says that he is full of surprises and congratulates him. The students carry him as the camera freeze frames, and turns into a drawing as Charles M. Schulz's signature appears.
Cast
- Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews as Miss Othmar and Mrs. Little Red-Haired Girl. Andrews' trombone provided their "wah-wah" voices, along with the voices for other adult characters in the film.
- Rebecca Bloom as Marcie
- Anastasia Bredikhina as Patty
- Francesca Angelucci Capaldi as the Little Red-Haired Girl and Frieda
- Kristin Chenoweth as 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.
- Alex Garfin as Linus van Pelt and the narrator of Snoopy's Story.
- Noah Johnston as Schroeder
- Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock (from archival recordings). Woodstock and his bird friends are part of Snoopy's Beagle Scouts, who serve as the World War I Flying Ace's repair crew.
- Hadley Belle Miller as Lucy van Pelt
- Micah Revelli as Little Kid
- Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown
- Venus Omega Schultheis as Peppermint Patty
- Mariel Sheets as Sally Brown
- Madisyn Shipman as Violet Gray
- AJ Teece as Pig-Pen
- Marelik "Mar Mar" Walker as Franklin
- William "Alex" Wunsch as Shermy
Snoopy's siblings also make a cameo during the end credits.
Production
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 also produced. Craig, stating there is no one "more protective of the comic strip than myself," chose Martino as director because he showed faithfulness to literature 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 M. Schulz's 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)
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 would write and perform 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 was released on November 6, 2015 in the United States on 3,897 screens. The release commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. The film was originally scheduled for November 25, 2015, and in November 2012 was rescheduled to November 6, 2015. The film will be released as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie in the United Kingdom and Australia in late December 2015.
An Ice Age short film called Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe was shown prior to the screening in theaters, used to promote the Blue Sky's upcoming animated film, Ice Age: Collision Course.
Reception
Box office
As of November 10, 2015, The Peanuts Movie has grossed $49 million in North America and $4.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $53.5 million.
In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $12.1 million on its opening day, earning a total of $44 million for the weekend (with 27% of the gross coming from 3D screenings), finishing second at the box office behind Spectre ($70.4 million).
Outside North America, the film opened in the same week as the US and grossed $4.56 million from 12 markets. China ($2.76 million) and Italy ($1.16 million) delivered the biggest openings.
Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 86% approval rating with an average rating of 7.1/10, based on 92 reviews, making it the highest-rated film to date produced by Blue Sky Studios. The site's consensus states: "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." On Metacritic, the film has received a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
The Hollywood Reporter's Michael Rechtshaffen found the film to be especially praiseworthy, feeling that Charles Schulz would have been proud of the film, though criticized the use of Trainor's song in an otherwise good use of Guaraldi's themes with Beck's score. Peter Debruge 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 child 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." Neil Genzlinger from The New York Times named the film an NYT Critics' Pick, calling it "the most charming and the most daring experiment in human genetics ever conducted." However, he also showed concern for the modern children's audiences who may or may not only know the Peanuts gang from the holiday specials.
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 Charlie Brown failed in the film. Joe McGovern from Entertainment Weekly was also not as receptive, giving the film a grade of C+, and criticizing the animation, stating, "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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External links
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- Film scores by Christophe Beck
- Films directed by Steve Martino
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