The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their archnemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home to win the love of his life.

Director:

Steve Martino

Writers:

Craig Schulz (screenplay by), Bryan Schulz (screenplay by)

Stars:

Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez, Hadley Belle Miller

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 47 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Trombone Shorty	...	Miss Othmar / Mrs. Little Red-Haired Girl (voice) (as Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews)
Rebecca Bloom	...	Marcie (voice)
Anastasia Bredikhina	...	Patty (voice)
Francesca Capaldi	...	The Little Red-Haired Girl / Frieda (voice) (as Francesca Angelucci Capaldi)
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Fifi (voice)
Alex Garfin	...	Linus (voice)
Noah Johnston	...	Schroeder (voice)
Bill Melendez	...	Snoopy / Woodstock (voice) (archive sound)
Hadley Belle Miller	...	Lucy (voice)
Micah Revelli	...	Little Kid (voice)
Noah Schnapp	...	Charlie Brown (voice)
Venus Schultheis	...	Peppermint Patty (voice) (as Venus Omega Schultheis)
Mariel Sheets	...	Sally (voice)
Madisyn Shipman	...	Violet (voice)
A.J. Tecce	...	Pigpen (voice) (as AJ Tecce)

Storyline

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole gang are back in a heartwarming story. A new girl with red hair moves in across the street, and Charlie Brown falls in love. Now he tries to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl to make her feel like he's a winner, but Charlie Brown just can't do anything right. At the same time, Snoopy is writing a love story about his continuing battles with The Red Baron. Then Charlie Brown has accomplished something never done before. He gets a perfect score on his standardized test, but there has been a mistake. Should he tell the truth and risk losing all of his newfound popularity? Can Charlie Brown get the girl to love him, or will he go back to being a nothing?

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Plot Keywords:

peanuts | popularity | school | imagination | beagle | 

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Taglines:

Franklin: Mr. Ice. Guy.

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family

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Certificate:

G

Did You Know?

Trivia

The last Blue Sky Studios film to be rated G by the MPAA.

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Goofs

During the dance scene where no one was dancing, Peppermint Patty was among the group of girls, then when Charlie Brown opened the door, she reappears along with Marcie, holding the fruit punch.

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Quotes

[first lines]
[Symphony No. 5 Allegro con brio plays on Schroeder's piano clock, he wakes up to turn it off, but doesn't]
Schroeder: Ah, Beethoven.

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Crazy Credits

There is a scene in the closing credits: Snoopy, Fifi, Woodstock, the Beagle Scouts, and Snoopy's siblings celebrate Snoopy's victory over the Red Baron with root beer, then the Red Baron shows up and buzzes the party to splash the root beer into Snoopy's face.

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Alternate Versions

On the Disney+ version of the film, during the end credits, the names of the child actors who performed the characters voices are completely missing. Other than Miss Othmar and Fifi (Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Kristin Chenoweth respectively), we only see the names of the characters themselves almost as though it were just a 'curtain call' making who voiced them a mystery.

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Connections

Follows It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000)

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Soundtracks

Better When I'm Dancin'
Written by Meghan Trainor and Thaddeus Dixon
Performed by Meghan Trainor
Produced by Thaddeus Dixon and Meghan Trainor
Meghan Trainor performs courtesy of Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

User Reviews

I don't know what to say

I loved the Peanuts half hour TV specials as a kid, particularly Halloween and Christmas. I make my kids watch them each year and they enjoy them. We have also watched at least one fuller length movie made some time ago (about a spelling bee?) that ran a little too long. Before the specials even existed I loved the Peanuts comic strips. This movie handled the characters great, no complaint there. I just got part way through and said okay where are we going with this and how much is left. So maybe the bottom line is Peanuts is more effective in small doses than in a full length movie. They seemed to realize that in having a short movie to start and keeping the running time down. Of the story lines the best (and the one that could be enjoyed the longest) was the Snoopy WWI theme. But the bottom line is that it may be hard to make this work for an hour or more no matter how you do it, even if you have stupendous graphics. In any event, nice to see a new generation of Schulz's carrying the torch.

P.S. In watching some of the older shows recently, I remembered that the best of the TV shows was where they basically just strung a bunch of the daily cartoons together, rather than tell a traditional story. Charles Schulz was a cartoon genius, and had a penchant for running a series of consecutive strips on the same subject, sort of a continual story with a daily punch line, which is directly transferable to the screen. Maybe they could go back to that format next time around?

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 November 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Blue Sky Studios Peanuts by Schulz

Box Office

Budget:

$99,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$44,213,073, 8 November 2015

Gross USA:

$130,178,411

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$246,233,113

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios, Feigco Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Surround 7.1 Dolby Digital Dolby Atmos SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1