I wouldn't say that I was a massive - or even a big - fan of Snoopy or the whole Peanuts gang (meaning that I don't know everything about them), but that's not to say that I don't enjoy watching Charlie Brown and the gang every now and then and the sentimentality & nostalgia it all brings from reading the comic strips when I was a kid.
This is probably the first full length movie I've seen of Snoopy & Co. and I have to admit that I ended up thoroughly enjoying it. I kind of wondered how they would make a 90+ minute feature length movie of the comic strip, but the makers done an excellent job of giving it a good, yet simple, story line of Charlie Brown trying to impress a new girl in the neighbourhood with all of the original scenario's thrown in (Lucy the psychiatrist; Snoopy's Red Baron scenes; Lucy holding the football (and pulling it away as usual)). They've also done a really good job with the animation by giving it a modern feel & look but still keeping in with the old style of animation that the Charles Schulz comic strips had.
After about the first 10-20 minutes of the movie I actually thought that I would be bored to tears because even though the film was sticking to all the original themes, I felt that it wasn't going to go anywhere and was just going to be like a bunch of Peanuts comic strips patched together. However, I was glad that the opposite happened and the film actually got better, more enjoyable, and funnier as it went on. It wasn't "bust a gut" type of humour, but the humour came at you pretty constantly in the usual Peanuts slap-stick way.
I'm sure the majority of kids will enjoy this film, and we adults who grew up in the Peanuts age will appreciate it just as much (if not more) even if it's just for the nostalgia aspect.
Whether the audience member is 7 or 70, The Peanuts Movie is definitely a film for all.
This is probably the first full length movie I've seen of Snoopy & Co. and I have to admit that I ended up thoroughly enjoying it. I kind of wondered how they would make a 90+ minute feature length movie of the comic strip, but the makers done an excellent job of giving it a good, yet simple, story line of Charlie Brown trying to impress a new girl in the neighbourhood with all of the original scenario's thrown in (Lucy the psychiatrist; Snoopy's Red Baron scenes; Lucy holding the football (and pulling it away as usual)). They've also done a really good job with the animation by giving it a modern feel & look but still keeping in with the old style of animation that the Charles Schulz comic strips had.
After about the first 10-20 minutes of the movie I actually thought that I would be bored to tears because even though the film was sticking to all the original themes, I felt that it wasn't going to go anywhere and was just going to be like a bunch of Peanuts comic strips patched together. However, I was glad that the opposite happened and the film actually got better, more enjoyable, and funnier as it went on. It wasn't "bust a gut" type of humour, but the humour came at you pretty constantly in the usual Peanuts slap-stick way.
I'm sure the majority of kids will enjoy this film, and we adults who grew up in the Peanuts age will appreciate it just as much (if not more) even if it's just for the nostalgia aspect.
Whether the audience member is 7 or 70, The Peanuts Movie is definitely a film for all.