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Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

The Peanuts gang goes to summer camp, and they participate in a river-raft race against some cheating bullies.

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Complete credited cast:
Duncan Watson ...
Charlie Brown (voice)
Greg Felton ...
Schroeder (voice)
Stuart Brotman ...
Gail Davis ...
Sally Brown (voice)
Liam Martin ...
Linus Van Pelt (voice)
Kirk Jue ...
Bully (voice)
Jordan Warren ...
Another Bully (voice)
Jimmy Ahrens ...
Marcie (voice)
Melanie Kohn ...
Lucy Van Pelt (voice)
Tom Muller ...
Another Bully (voice)
Bill Melendez ...
Snoopy / Woodstock / Additional Voices (voice)
Fred Van Amburg ...
Radio Announcer (voice)
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The Peanuts gang, including Snoopy and Woodstock, have gone off to summer camp. After a few days of the usual summer-camp activities, they all take part in a rafting race. Battling treacherous rapids, wild animals, and bullies from a rival camp, the teams make their way downriver to the finish line. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

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It's my new wilderness adventure! The entire "Peanuts" gang faces everything from bullies to rampaging rapids. "Good grief", will you have fun!


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24 August 1977 (USA)  »

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1.85 : 1
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Trivia

To do research for this film, Charles M. Schulz went river rafting on the Rogue River in Oregon. See more »

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Snoopy blows up his raft and it's clearly a rubber ring with no base. Later he drops things into it and it shows a base, then it's in the water and water is splashing through the middle of it. See more »

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[while traveling on a bus, Sally waves to a boy and girl outside, but the girl sticks her tongue out at her]
Sally Brown: Did you see that? She stuck her tongue out at me! I waved at that little kid and she stuck her tongue out at me! Boy, if I could get off this bus, I'd go back there and punch her lights out!
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The Paramount Pictures logo appears over a blue background, after its usual mountain background dissolves. See more »

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Follows There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown (1973) See more »

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Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
Written by Ed Bogas
Performed by Larry Finlayson
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The Brightest of the Peanuts Movies
20 April 2000 | by (Los Angeles) – See all my reviews

If there were common themes uniting the four Peanuts movies, I would most readily point out two of them: a going-against-the-odds theme and an adventurous spirit. For the other three movies, those themes were accompanied by a theme of darkness. In fact, one couldn't help but feel lonely as Charlie Brown spent the night studying in a big city in "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"; as Snoopy got kicked out of place after place in "Snoopy Come Home"; or as Charlie Brown and Linus encountered a dark, daunting chateau in "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown."

And so it was great to see that for this movie, they decided to lighten it up. The result is bright and delightful! Part of the way the mood is set in the other movies is the use night and isolation; that can create the scene for adventure, but there is always a scary side there. Although there is a little of that in this movie, one remembers it more for the scenes of the Peanuts gang interacting and encountering fun/peril on the rapids or making the best of a bad situation while lost in the woods. This one has more comedy and action than any of the other Peanuts movies, and it all makes for an enjoyable ride.

Perhaps the best part of the movie is that fact that you finally get to see all the major members of the Peanuts gang play off of each other (the other movies each concentrated on a few of the characters). They antagonize a lot, and then learn to stick it out together in the spirit of teamwork. Few things are as fun as taking a group of extreme and different personalities, forcing them together, and watching them go. Some of the funniest scenes are when the girls' team wrangle over the strategies involved in the raft race. It's hilarious!

This is easily my favorite of the Peanuts movies, and, for me, one of the great examples of what kinds of great comedic/dramatic situations one can draw from a diverse cast of characters. Not nearly as dark in mood as the others, Race For Your Life is punctuated with gags and back-dropped against the sun and nature. Perhaps one of the only major drawbacks of the movie is the evident proof of Schulz's own claim that he can't draw cats!


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