Peanuts: Search and Destroy

this film seems destined to satisfy noone

http://www.bbkingblues.com/inc/artists/606-3.jpg

He certainly looks satisfied.

Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter.

Hell, PN even looks like one of the new Peanuts.

I got some piece of spam about the movie that blurbed "the Peanuts gang in their FIRST big-screen outing" blah blah...

If it happened before Star Wars, it didn't happen.

If it's genuinely in the spirit of the strip and/or the original movies and animated specials, I'd give it a shot. I'm extremely wary, though (because, yes, potential for farts, and also Black Eyed Peas songs or whatever). And while I love Peanuts, I'm totally in agreement that owning the rights to a 50+ year old property doesn't mean that there's any real reason to adapt it to another medium at this point or that there's any real market for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2AS51xJ9iE

im not sure i trust the favorable reviews that have come out, but this is an interesting look at how they worked to keep the imagery in line with schultz's drawings as possible (keeping the motion lines, etc.) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/03/movies/08the-peanuts-movie-scene.html

I guess I should clarify: "If it's genuinely in the spirit of the strip and/or the pre-'80s original movies and animated specials, I'd give it a shot."

^^ WHY IS CHARLIE BROWN SMILING AT THE END OF THAT FOOTBALL CLIP?

Because he just farted, beat you all to it.

i would be stunned if they can even muster the spirit of the metlife commercials, but i've been wrong before

There's gonna be turf warfare with the Family Circus clan iirc

For people who get their newspaper comics fix online, comics.com now offers "Peanuts Begins," really early strips, separate from the more recent Peanuts strips.

Maybe I posted these before, but Schultz did some Peanuts ads for the Ford Falcon in the early '60s...

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fordad.jpg

https://triviahappy.com/images/articles/03182014charliead.jpg

http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1963-ford-falcon-peanuts-ad-charlie-brown-lucy.jpg

https://media2.wnyc.org/i/620/372/l/80/1/charlie_brown_and_lucy_ford_falcon.jpg

The Falcon campaign also boasted the first Peanuts animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHtX2FEVyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43ExlkXmQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58TMNiQ_5Y

Cool. I'm always interested in ancillary Peanuts stuff. Hopefully, since there's only one more Fantagraphics reprint still to be issued, they'll compile a book of extras to fill out a twelfth box set.

Okay, so it appears that two of Schulz's sons are the writers and Paul Feig is a producer and there's no obnoxious stunt voice casting from what I can tell. Aside from a Meghan Trainor song and a Flo Rida song (which I hope good sense will relegate to the end credits), nothing is jumping out as glaringly troublesome. Maybe this will be okay?

Speaking of the Fanta reprints, the 1995-1998 slipcase came out last week. I'm determined to complete the collection at this point, but this is, eh, not exactly top-shelf material. If it needs to be said.

i'm cautiously excited about this but sort of bracing myself bcz i'm not really 100 percent convinced that anyone but schulz can write peanuts dialogue.

^^ WHY IS CHARLIE BROWN SMILING AT THE END OF THAT FOOTBALL CLIP?

― pplains, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:48 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

I read an interview with Feig that sounded very promising.

Feig was on The Soup and was surprisingly hilarious

Pretty sure Peanuts is still huge, I have a 4-year-old niece who loves all the old specials and at one point recited the intro to "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown!" from memory.

Aside from a Meghan Trainor song and a Flo Rida song (which I hope good sense will relegate to the end credits), nothing is jumping out as glaringly troublesome.

this is a very big "aside from..."

http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/other-than-that-mrs-lincoln-how-did-you-enjoy-the-play-d74a2.png

xpost Oh, I most definitely agree. Based on the information I can glean from the credits, though, this looks like the one glaring concession the filmmakers made to the studio. Assuming Flo Rida isn't the director's cousin or something.

vince guaraldi ft. flo rida - "linus and lucy (got dem apple bottom jeans)"

The Meghan Trainor song is fine

3D animation looks horrible here.

I slept through most of it but as I recall none of the pop songs from the trailers appear in the actual movie.
Bilge Ebiri's review seems about right I think.

Now will they make a Dog Sees God movie?

so this was alright?

this was actually quite lovely and sweet, i was pleasantly surprised.

none of the fears expressed here and elsewhere came to pass, the voices sound right and the dialogue is authentically peanuts-ish and they didn't tack on any grand quest story. (and no, no crude jokes.) i was basically the target audience to be disappointed or infuriated by this movie and i wasn't, at all. unless you really hate the way the cgi looks, there's nothing here that any peanuts fan is going to hate.

Having a trombone instead of a trumpet for the voices of the adults was a little off, felt like an excuse to feature Trombone Shorty in the credits. Not exactly a BFD though.

Was there an adult in one of the later cartoons who had a voice that was nothing but percussion? Or am I imagining that.

I think adult voices have always been a trombone with a mute.

It was like a coach yelling at Pigpen or something - one of those voices that actually caused the character to lift up off the ground with his mouth wide open, grasping at his chest with his little hands.

Like I said, might've imagined it.

think i'll take my daughter to this, since she is peanuts-obsessed right now. i've got low expectations, but the reviews i've read make it sound like i won't be outraged or anything.
this was a good piece: www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/the-existential-beauty-of-peanuts

I think adult voices have always been a trombone with a mute.

― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Monday, November 9, 2015 2:11 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this.

i guess i should see this movie. maybe next weekend.

HERE is the Charlotte Braun letter.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/charlotte-braun-death-of-a-peanuts-character#.ktjajOr8g

I'll definitely see this, even at 38 I still love Peanuts fare.

did anyone see this movie?

wish i had a scanner, but this peanuts I actually had to cut out and save:

Panel 1:
Charlie Brown, awake in bed, staring at ceiling, snoopy sleeping draped over CB's feet: "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, can my generation look to the future with hope?"

Panel 2:
Charlie Brown, lying on side with very worried expression, and snoopy is now awake with identical furrowed brow:
"Then, out of the dark, a voice comes to me that says, 'Why, sure... well, I mean... that is... it sort of depends... I mean... if... when... who... we... and..."

October 23, 1995

most of them were bad, but every once in a while... pow.

― (Jon L), Friday, September 26, 2003 11:05 PM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is actually a LOT of gold in the later peanuts.

i saw it:

this was actually quite lovely and sweet, i was pleasantly surprised.

none of the fears expressed here and elsewhere came to pass, the voices sound right and the dialogue is authentically peanuts-ish and they didn't tack on any grand quest story. (and no, no crude jokes.) i was basically the target audience to be disappointed or infuriated by this movie and i wasn't, at all. unless you really hate the way the cgi looks, there's nothing here that any peanuts fan is going to hate.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, November 9, 2015 6:44 PM (3 days ago)

it seems worth remembering that expectations were not high for the first major peanuts adaptation either:

A Charlie Brown Christmas was completed just ten days shy of its national broadcast premiere. All involved believed the special would be an unmitigated disaster. (Bill) Melendez first saw the completed animation at a showing in a theater in the days before its premiere, turning to his crew of animators and remarking, "My golly, we've killed it." Melendez was embarrassed, but one of the animators, Ed Levitt, was more positive regarding the special, telling him it was "the best special (he'll) ever make (...) This show is going to run for a hundred years." (Lee) Mendelson was similar in his assumptions of the show's quality, and when he showed the film to network executives in New York, their opinions were also negative. Their complaints included the show's slow pace, the music not fitting, and the animation too simple. "I really believed, if it hadn't been scheduled for the following week, there's no way they were gonna broadcast that show," Mendelson later said.

http://i.imgur.com/vkp8ZC8.png

The movie completely embodied the peanuts strips: the characters we love, the exact same situations and quotes, jokes that make us smile but not laugh, and a comforting aura of fluff that is completely foreign to any child that likes to move it move It. Likewise, my excitement subsided by the end of the movie.

B-

Esp loved the part where Charlie and Linus get iinto a heated debate over whether fuel can melt steel

11/16/52

https://twitter.com/Hoganmag/status/666256171444150272

saw this w/ my six year old over the weekend. i didn't find it offensive or anything... too much slapstick-y kinda stuff ultimately, but it was mostly a pleasure to look at, and found an OK middle ground between the TV specials and the strip itself. six year old loved it.