Peanuts: Search and Destroy

I'm guilty of buying some merch for sure. I just love the look of the characters too much.

Jonathan Rosenabaum into to Sunday '52-55 strips (compares Schulz to Ozu, natch):

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2013/11/peanuts-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-tk/

can't believe the Ozu comparison never occurred to me before

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1621914_10152330196536518_729753250_n.jpg

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/18/peanuts_movie_teaser_our_first_look_at_charlie_brown_and_snoopy_in_the_cgi.html

Doom.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/03/17/little-red-haired-girl-fifi-peanuts-charlie-brown/6384109/

While Charlie Brown has pined for the red-haired girl her from afar at school lunch periods, she has rarely been depicted, appearing only briefly in TV specials. Now she'll truly step out in the film.

"She looks wonderful, but people will have to wait a year and a half to see her," says producer Craig Schulz, a son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. "We handle it very respectfully. We knew we wanted this movie to be bigger than any kind of TV special. To do that, we had to kind of go to the boundaries of where I would ever let anyone go in the Peanuts world."

They're going to show the redheaded girl? Really? _Really_?

Just hope this turns out to be as good as good as the Sherman and Mr. Peabody movie.

linus builds a universal translator to decode wah-wah-wah-wah. but the military steals it!

We handle it very respectfully. We knew we wanted this movie to be bigger than any kind of TV special.

^^^ horrible, sickening doublethink, these two sentences together. God help us.

I don't have high hopes for this, but after re-watching some of those 1970s "spelling bee" era Peanuts TV specials, I know there's already plenty of precedence for shitty adaptations.

The TV specials aren't all great, but wanting to be "bigger" than them is some serious point-missing IMO.

Yeah, aside from the x-mas special, and maybe one or two others, Peanuts TV specials are pretty awful.

Yeah I'd rather just read the strips but we got some gold like this

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

I'm pretty much down with the original specials up through the late seventies or so, and the four theatrical movies all had their charms. (The special that was the addendum to their European trip was also nice too.) It's almost lizard brain nostalgia -- I tie that up with a lot of good memories in my past.

'a boy named charlie brown' is pretty incredible, not least because it doesn't soften the blow the way most of the specials do: it's pure undiluted schulz. charlie brown loses the spelling bee, the kids treat him horribly, and it all ends badly. but then there's this wonderful moment at the very end, when charlie brown is moping and feeling sorry for himself, and linus says: 'but did you notice something, charlie brown? the world didn't come to an end.'

This looks decent enough. Nice faux stop-motion effect they have there. The voices are pretty spot-on as well!

sounds like they're just reusing existing recordings of bill melendez's snoopy voice, which was prob the smartest thing to do.

Paul Feig should be ashamed of himself

glad they're finally sprucing up this turd of a comic with some epic computer f/x and action scenes

Next thing you know they will be hawking Charlie Brown and Snoopy dolls!

https://www.metlife.com/brandcenter/visual/snoopy/index.html

“Snoopy will not be rapping, no one will be twerking, we're in good hands.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdGaO1w0eQ

Would've assumed this would be awful, but the animation in the trailer is really charming imo

this looks repulsive

i hear cgi charlie brown turns into a robot in this, just like in the comics

Sorry, ilx, forgot to add /jackie_harvey j/k after my last post

repulsive how sic

It really is a shame they're going to force all adults to watch this just like Ninja Turtles and Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks, so it's important we all have opinions on a peanuts movie in 2014

Never create your own PEANUTS comic strip.

Oh, to have known the insurance salesman who forced the hand of MetLife's legal team on this one.

ninja turtles (post-comics) and smurfs and chipmunks are all pretty explicitly kid-targeted franchises, which peanuts isn't.

repulsive how sic

Plastic-looking modelling, greasy imagery that makes my eyes slide right off it into a puddle of CGI at the bottom of the screenshots. (Luckily the video didn’t load in my browser.) The idea that this is in any way valuable in a year when HUGELY more of Schulz’ actual work is in print and readily available than at any other time in history.

Do not depict characters with alcoholic beverages. Snoopy likes root beer.

ha ha

PEANUTS is some str8 garbage and if you can't admit it then you are lying to yourself and to god

i know you eventually recant but thats one of my favorite thread titles

ninja turtles (post-comics) and smurfs and chipmunks are all pretty explicitly kid-targeted franchises, which peanuts isn't.
--(The Other) J.D. (J.D.)

Peanuts has been a kid targeted franchise since like the 70s

i know you eventually recant but thats one of my favorite thread titles

― slam dunk, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:07 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

only a semi-recant, i still hate all the peanuts ive seen except a couple strips

Plastic-looking modelling, greasy imagery that makes my eyes slide right off it into a puddle of CGI at the bottom of the screenshots. (Luckily the video didn’t load in my browser.)

"I wasn't able to watch the trailer but I know that it's awful"

I actually think this teaser looked okay - I was braced for the worst but the animation actually seemed quite charming. I probs won't see it until my daughter is old enough to want to, and I'm a little skeevy at the thought of actually seeing the little red haired girl, but...

Peanuts has been a kid targeted franchise since like the 70s

― open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten)

No you're thinking of the plushies, not the actual strip. Although I've most frequently seen Snoopy on adult underwear in H&M.

I'm talking about the images, stevie!

schulz museum posted this on twitter today:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjG0ClBCcAAM5xD.jpg

the trailer isn't too bad sic!

Except for when Snoopy breakdances to Smash Mouth.

"hey dog / you're a rockstar..."

this looks repulsive

― Charles, hatless (sic), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:09 PM (Yesterday)

^^^

They're going to show the redheaded girl? Really? _Really_?

― abcfsk, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

characters from throughout the Peanuts universe will appear, including the Little Red-Haired Girl (who was never seen in the strips, but did appear in one TV special).

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C5MkqLIuL._SY300_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWxzKwic0c

There is btw nothing in this teaser at all that would lead to any of the histrionic pre-condemnation people are making here. Literally nothing.

I do get that it's sort of less offensive that the animation has a friendly, homemade, almost quasi 1950s stop-motion feel that is true-ish to the world/mind from which the characters come. But... it doesn't do any of that better than the cheap crummy TV animation of forty years ago, and in the meantime it acquires a really dubious sheen. The opening Strauss gag is cute, but it's "cute" in the exact way Peanuts isn't, and in a way from which I can't see Charlie Brown benefiting, or getting more human or relatable. In the world of winking meta-gags, it's very mild, but the world of winking meta-gags isn't really Peanuts to begin with. It makes me wonder whether the handlers really 'get' the kind of funny that the strip did so well at its best.

It doesn't look like it's going to be a 'rapping Snoopy' Dreamworks/Fox type animated movie - but why does it need to exist at all? I'm reminded of the Jim Carrey Grinch movie - even if it hadn't been godawful, it would still be a redundant cash-in.

Why does any of pop culture exist at all? Why are we wasting our time w this when we could be curing cancer/exploring space/finding god in our fellow man.