The Peanuts Movie

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The Peanuts Movie
Peanuts 2015.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Steve Martino
Screenplay by
Based on Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz
Produced by
  • Craig Schulz
  • Bryan Schulz
  • Cornelius Uliano
  • Paul Feig
  • Michael J. Travers [1]
Starring
CinematographyRenato Falcão [2]
Edited byRandy Trager [1]
Music by Christophe Beck
Production
companies
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01)(New York City premiere)
  • November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)(United States)
Running time
88 minutes [5]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$99 million [6]
Box office$246.2 million [6]

The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie [7] ) is a 2015 American animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts , produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the fifth full-length Peanuts film and the first in 35 years. [1] The film was directed by Steve Martino from a screenplay by Cornelius Uliano and Craig and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively). Uliano and the Schulzes also serve as producers alongside Paul Feig and Michael J. Travers. The film stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock, alongside the ensemble voices of Hadley Belle Miller, Mariel Sheets, Alex Garfin, Francesca Angelucci Capaldi, Venus Omega Schultheis, Rebecca Bloom, Marelik "Mar Mar" Walker, Noah Johnston, Anastasia Bredikhina, Madisyn Shipman, AJ Teece, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, and Kristin Chenoweth. The film sees Charlie Brown trying to improve his odds with his love interest, the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy writes a book where he is a World War I Flying Ace trying to save his fellow pilot and love interest, Fifi, from the Red Baron and his flying circus.

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Development of the film began in 2006, six years after the death of Charles Schulz and the final release of the last Peanuts comic strip. Craig Schulz, the son of Charles, pitched a film idea to his son, Bryan Schulz. 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios announced development of a computer-animated film in October 2012, with Martino directing, due to his faithfulness to the style of Dr. Seuss in the film, Horton Hears a Who! (2008), also produced by Blue Sky. [2] [8] Numerous elements from the comic strip were featured in the film, such as Charlie Brown's skating pond, his house, "the wall" and Lucy's psychiatrist booth, as well as the Snoopy and Woodstock voice tracks from Bill Melendez. [9] The score was composed by Christophe Beck, with additional soundtrack contributions by Meghan Trainor and David Benoit. [10] [11]

The Peanuts Movie premiered in New York City on November 1, 2015, [12] and was released in the United States five days later on November 6. It grossed $246 million worldwide against a $99 million budget to become the 7th highest-grossing animated film of 2015. The film was met with generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the animation, voice acting, and faithfulness to the source material, but received minor criticism for its lack of ambition. It received nominations for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, and was the first Blue Sky Studios film to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to Inside Out .

Plot

When the Little Red-Haired Girl moves into the neighborhood and later joins his class, Charlie Brown becomes infatuated with her, though worries his long-running streak of misfortunes and bad luck will prevent her from noticing him. After Lucy tells him he should try being more confident, Charlie Brown decides to embark upon a series of new activities in hope of finding one that will get the Little Red-Haired Girl to notice him.

Helped by Snoopy and Woodstock, he performs a magic show act in the school's talent show; unfortunately, however, he is forced to drop his act in order to help his sister Sally with hers, causing him to be abusively humiliated. Charlie Brown then signs up for the school dance and gets Snoopy to teach him all his dancing skills. At the dance, Charlie Brown attracts praise for his skills, but he slips during his performance. This sets one of his shoes to hit the sprinkler, causing the dance to be cut short and the students to selfishly look down upon him once more.

Charlie Brown is partnered with the Little Red-Haired Girl to write a book report. When she is called away for a week to deal with a family illness, Charlie Brown decides to write the report alone, on the collegiate-level novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, to which he writes a comprehensive report. At the same time, Charlie Brown finds he is the only student to get a perfect score on a standardized test taken earlier that school year. His friends and the other students congratulate him, and his popularity begins to climb.

However, when he goes to accept a medal at a school assembly, he learns the test papers were accidentally mixed up, and that Peppermint Patty was actually the one who got the perfect score. Saddened that his sudden popularity was all for nothing, Charlie Brown reveals the mistake and declines the medal, thus becoming unpopular again, and, once again, aggressively put down by everyone else. To make matters worse, his book report is accidentally shredded by Linus' model Red Baron tri-plane, causing him to admit to the Little Red-Haired Girl that he has caused them both to fail the assignment.

Meanwhile, Snoopy writes a novel about his World War I Flying Ace persona trying to save Fifi from the Red Baron with help from Woodstock and his friends, using the key events and situations surrounding Charlie Brown as inspiration to develop his story. He acts out his adventure physically and coming across Charlie Brown and the gang several times along the way. Snoopy, in the end, manages to defeat the Red Baron by kamikaze and save Fifi.

Before leaving school for the summer, Charlie Brown is surprised when the Little Red-Haired Girl chooses him for a pen pal (as part of a school project during the summer). Linus convinces Charlie Brown he needs to tell the Little Red-Haired Girl how he feels about her before she leaves for the summer. Racing to her house, he instead encounters her mother, who informs him she is about to leave on a bus for summer camp. Charlie Brown tries to chase the bus but is prevented from reaching it by the other kids. Just as he is about to give up, he sees a kite fall from the Kite-Eating Tree. The string becomes entangled around his waist and sails away with him, thus pulling him along with it. Amazed to see Charlie Brown finally flying a kite, the other kids follow. Upon reaching the bus, Charlie Brown finally asks the Little Red-Haired Girl why she has chosen him in spite of his previous failed attempts to try and impress her. The Little Red-Haired Girl explains to him that she admires his selflessness and determination, calling him an honest, kind, caring, and compassionate person. The other kids congratulate him and praises Charlie Brown, thus, finally both making it up to him for all their previous acts of selfishness and rude and aggressive behavior towards him, and accepting him as a true friend.

In a mid-credit scene, Lucy promises Charlie Brown that this time, she will not actually pull the football away from him, though she does anyway for a seemingly convoluted reason. And in another, Snoopy, as the flying ace, celebrates his victory with his friends, his siblings, and Fifi, though the Red Baron is revealed to have survived and flies pass them, swearing vengeance on Snoopy.

In a post-credit scene, Linus' plane is shown still flying, until it finally gives out and falls into a pond.

Cast

The main Peanuts characters as seen in the closing shot of the film (which later turns into a comic strip frame as Schulz signs his signature on the bottom) (L to R): Franklin, Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Linus, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Woodstock, Sally, Schroeder, and Pig-Pen. Peanuts Gang 2015.png
The main Peanuts characters as seen in the closing shot of the film (which later turns into a comic strip frame as Schulz signs his signature on the bottom) (L to R): Franklin, Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Linus, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Woodstock, Sally, Schroeder, and Pig-Pen.

Production

Development

Director Steve Martino presented the film in the work-in-progress session at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Steve Martino.jpg
Director Steve Martino presented the film in the work-in-progress session at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

In 2006, six years after the release of the last original Peanuts strip, as well as the death of creator Charles M. Schulz, his son Craig Schulz came up with an idea for a new Peanuts film, which he showed to his screenwriter son Bryan Schulz. "I was happy to show my son," Craig said. "He showed me how to make it bigger—how to blow it up more—and he helped me put in structure." [2] When presenting their film to studios, Craig stipulated that the film remain under Schulz control, saying, "We need[ed] to have absolute quality control and keep it under Dad's legacy... You can't bring people in from the outside and expect them to understand Peanuts." [2] On October 9, 2012, it was announced that 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios were developing a 3D computer-animated feature film based on the strip, with Steve Martino directing from the screenplay by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano. Craig, Bryan, and Uliano also produced. [8] Craig, stating there is no one "more protective of the comic strip than myself," chose Martino as director because he showed faithfulness to literature in his adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! . [2]

On the film's plot, Martino said: "Here's where I lean thematically. I want to go through this journey... Charlie Brown is that guy who, in the face of repeated failure, picks himself back up and tries again. That's no small task. I have kids who aspire to be something big and great... a star football player or on Broadway. I think what Charlie Brown is—what I hope to show in this film—is the everyday qualities of perseverance... to pick yourself back up with a positive attitude—that's every bit as heroic... as having a star on the Walk of Fame or being a star on Broadway. That's the [story's] core. This is a feature film story that has a strong dramatic drive, and takes its core ideas from the strip." [2] Martino and his animators spent over a year looking at Charles M. Schulz's original drawing style to help translate the "hand-drawn warmth... into the cool pixel-precision of CGI" without the fear of something getting lost in translation, such as "how the dot of an eye [conveyed] joy or sorrow so efficiently". [2] In addition to receiving the rights to use Bill Melendez's voice for Snoopy and Woodstock, Martino was also able to get the rights to archive music from previous Peanuts specials. [2] Classic locations are featured, such as Charlie Brown's skating pond, his house, "the wall" and Lucy's psychiatrist booth, each retaining their "eternal look of the strip." [9] Additionally, despite being outdated technology, rotary phones and typewriters are seen, as well as Lucy's psychiatrist booth still costing a nickel. Adult characters' "wah-wah" voices are represented by a trombone with a plunger mute, as in previous Peanuts media, [24] courtesy of New Orleans jazz musician Trombone Shorty. [17] Because of the robust number of existing Peanuts characters, the film does not introduce any new characters. [22]

On January 8, 2013, Leigh Anne Brodsky became the managing director of Peanuts Worldwide and was set to control all the global deals for the film. [25] In April 2013, Fox announced that the film would be released in 3D. [26] In October 2013, it was announced that Paul Feig would also produce. [27] By April 2015, 75% of the animation was complete, with some footage scheduled to debut at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. [24]

Music and soundtrack

David Benoit, the jazz musician who is best known for his own rendition of Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy", contributed to the score by Christophe Beck. David Benoit.jpg
David Benoit, the jazz musician who is best known for his own rendition of Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy", contributed to the score by Christophe Beck.

In October 2014, it was announced that Christophe Beck would score the film. [11] Beck stated, "With the Peanuts movies, I grew up on those specials from the '60s and '70s, that, of course, rerun to this day. I'm very fond of all that Vince Guaraldi music, so what we did was try to find spots in the film where we could sort of touch down and remind people who were watching the film that it's still a Peanuts movie, and there's still a place for that music in the film. There's a bunch of spots where we quote the Guaraldi music, or we actually re-record his pieces quite faithfully." He also added that the score would be more orchestral than Guaraldi's previous scores, which were mainly a small jazz combo. [29] Jazz pianist David Benoit contributed to Beck's score. [28]

On July 28, 2015, it was announced that Meghan Trainor would write and perform a song for the film, entitled "Better When I'm Dancin'". [30] Epic Records released the soundtrack album on October 23, 2015. [10] The 20-track album features Trainor's "Better When I'm Dancin", Flo Rida's "That's What I Like" featuring Fitz, "Linus and Lucy", "Skating" and "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi, from the A Charlie Brown Christmas album, and 15 tracks of Beck's original score for the film. An exclusive edition of the soundtrack released at Target features a second Trainor track, "Good to Be Alive". [31] The Japanese edition of the soundtrack includes "Good to Be Alive" and three more tracks from Beck's score. [32] The Japan version of the movie also uses Japanese singer-songwriter Ayaka's "A Song For You" for the trailer and the ending instead of Trainor's, but it was released as a single and did not appear on the Japanese edition of the soundtrack album. [33] [34]

Release

Premiere and theatrical release

The Peanuts Movie held its premiere in New York City on November 1, 2015, [12] and was released on November 6, 2015, in the United States on 3,897 screens. [35] [36] The release commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas . The film was originally scheduled for November 25, 2015, [8] but in November 2012, it was rescheduled to November 6, 2015. [35] The film was released as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie in United Kingdom on December 18, 2015. [7] [37] The Australian release date was supposed to be December 21, 2015 but was postponed to January 8, 2016. [38]

Video game

A video game based on the film, titled Snoopy's Grand Adventure , was released on November 3, 2015, for Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, and published by Activision. [39]

Home media

The Peanuts Movie was released on digital platforms on February 12, 2016, before being released on DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and 4K Ultra HD a month later on March 8, 2016. [40] The film debuted at the top of the home media sales chart for the week ending on March 13, 2016. [41]

Streaming

The Peanuts Movie was released on Disney+ on August 7, 2020. It was removed on February 1, 2022, due to licensing contracts, but was re-added on October 7.

Reception

Box office

The Peanuts Movie grossed $130.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $116 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $246.2 million. [6]

The film grossed $12.1 million on its opening day, earning a total of $44 million for the weekend (with 27% of the gross coming from 3D screenings), finishing second at the box office behind Spectre ($70.4 million). [36] Outside North America, the film opened in the same week as the U.S. and grossed $4.56 million from 12 markets. China ($2.76 million) and Italy ($1.16 million) delivered the biggest openings. [42] After three weekends, it opened to a total of 49 markets where it had the second biggest opening of 2015 in Mexico ($3.1 million) and debuted in the U.K., Ireland and Malta at No. 2 with $5.5 million (including previews) behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens . [43] One of the final markets was Australia where the film opened on New Year's Day 2016, earning $2.6 million in its first week. [44]

Critical response

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 87% approval rating and an average rating of 7.1/10 based on 198 reviews, making it the highest-rated film produced by Blue Sky Studios. The site's consensus states: "The Peanuts Movie offers a colorful gateway into the world of its classic characters and a sweetly nostalgic – if relatively unambitious – treat for the adults who grew up with them." [45] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [46] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [36]

The Hollywood Reporter 's Michael Rechtshaffen found the film to be especially praiseworthy, feeling that Charles Schulz would have been proud of the film, though he criticized the use of Trainor's song in an otherwise good use of Guaraldi's themes with Beck's score. [1] Peter Debruge of Variety gave similar sentiments, especially praising the animation of the film. [3] Alonso Duralde of TheWrap felt the film made a nice transition to 3D, saying, while the film might not reach "the melancholy of earlier films... it nonetheless respects the importance of failure and disappointment that Schulz always included in his storytelling". He did, however, feel that Peanuts purists would take issue with a few things in the film, such as seeing and hearing so much of the Little Red-Haired Girl, who was always off-panel in the comic strips, and Peppermint Patty acknowledging that Snoopy is a dog and not a child with a big nose (even though, unbeknownst to him, Marcie told her that Snoopy was a beagle in the latter years of the strip). [47] Pete Hammond from Deadline Hollywood admitted his trepidation about translating the characters from 2D to 3D, but enjoyed the film overall, only criticizing the amount of fantasy sequences involving Snoopy. [48] Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film three out of four stars, proclaiming the film "is all about simplicity, and what the plot lacks in nuance and complexity is made up for with relatable characters whom people have spent a lifetime watching. The movie is a testament to Charlie Brown's place in pop culture and a showcase for a new generation bound to fall in love with its perennially insecure star". [49] Neil Genzlinger from The New York Times named the film an NYT Critics' Pick, calling it "the most charming and the most daring experiment in human genetics ever conducted". However, he also showed concern for the modern children's audiences who may or may not only know the Peanuts gang from the holiday specials. [50]

Scott Mendelson from Forbes was more critical of the film, saying there was "nothing objectively wrong with The Peanuts Movie", but as he personally was not a fan of the Peanuts comic strip, that made him "anti-Charlie Brown", loathing each time Charlie Brown failed in the film. [51] Joe McGovern from Entertainment Weekly was also not as receptive, giving the film a grade of C+, and criticizing the animation, stating, "Even if you assume that Schulz always wanted his frozen pond reflecting lustrous light and Snoopy frolicking in a lavish Hayao Miyazaki world, the animation steroids injected into the aesthetic here nonetheless shrivel the great melancholy that's so key to the comic's endurance". [52]

Accolades, awards and nominations

AwardDate of CeremonyCategoryRecipientResultRef(s)
African-American Film Critics Association December 7, 2015Best Animated Film Steve Martino Won [53]
Annie Awards February 6, 2016 Best Animated Feature Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, Cornelius Uliano, Paul Feig and Michael J. TraversNominated [54]
Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation in a Feature ProductionBJ Crawford
Outstanding Achievement in Directing in an Animated Feature ProductionSteve Martino
Outstanding Achievement in Voice Acting in an Animated Feature ProductionAlex Garfin
Hadley Belle Miller
Austin Film Critics Association Awards December 29, 2015Best Animated FilmThe Peanuts Movie [55]
Black Reel Awards February 18, 2016Outstanding Voice PerformanceMarleik "Mar Mar" Walker [56]
Critics' Choice Awards January 17, 2016 Best Animated Feature Steve Martino [57]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards December 16, 2015 Best Animated Film The Peanuts Movie [58] [59]
Golden Globe Awards January 10, 2016 Best Animated Feature Film Steve Martino [60]
2015 Golden Tomato Awards 12 January 2016Best Animated MovieThe Peanuts Movie4th Place [61]
Houston Film Critics Society Awards January 9, 2016Best Animated FeatureNominated [62]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 12, 2015 Original Score - Animated Film Christophe Beck Won [63]
Original Song - Animated Film Better When I'm Dancin' Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards December 14, 2015 Best Animated Film Steve Martino, Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, Cornelius Uliano, Paul Feig and Michael J. Travers [64]
Golden Reel Awards February 27, 2016Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue & ADR in an Animation Feature FilmGwendolyn Yates Whittle, MPSE, Randy Thom [65]
Movieguide Awards February 2016Best Movie for FamiliesThe Peanuts Movie [66]
Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards March 12, 2016 Favorite Animated Movie [67]
Producers Guild of America Awards January 23, 2016Best Animated Motion PictureCraig Schulz and Michael J. Travers [68]
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards December 14, 2015 Best Animated Film The Peanuts Movie [69] [70]
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards December 12, 2015 Best Animated Feature [71]
Satellite Awards February 21, 2016 Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media [72]
Saturn Awards June 22, 2016 Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture [73]
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards December 20, 2015 Best Animated Film Steve Martino [74]
Village Voice Film Poll January 7, 2016Best Animated FilmThe Peanuts Movie11th Place [75]
Best FilmNominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 7, 2015 Best Animated Feature Steve Martino [76]

Future

Although The Peanuts Movie was considered a success, and Fox was reportedly interested in making a sequel and turning The Peanuts Movie into a franchise, the company was only granted the rights to one Peanuts film. Schulz's widow, Jean, indicated in November 2015 that a sequel was not imminent, stating, "This one took eight years, so maybe we'll talk again then." [77] In August 2023, Craig, Schulz's son and co-producer of the film, stated that another theatrical film was not "off the table". [78]

In November 2023, it was announced that a new Peanuts film was officially in development. The plot will revolve around Charlie Brown and his friends on an adventure to the Big City. While not a sequel to The Peanuts Movie, director Steve Martino will return as director, with a script by Karey Kirkpatrick from an original story by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano; while Bonnie Arnold will serve as producer. The project will be a joint-venture production between WildBrain Studios and Peanuts Worldwide and will be distributed by Apple TV+. [79]

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The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure is a side-scrolling platform video game based on The Peanuts Movie. The game launched on November 3, 2015, in North America, and November 6, 2015, in Europe and Australia for the Xbox 360 and most eighth-generation platforms, becoming the first Peanuts video game released on a Nintendo platform internationally since Snoopy Tennis in 2001. It was distributed by Fox Digital Entertainment, published by Activision and developed by Behaviour Santiago.

<i>The Peanuts Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)</i> 2015 soundtrack album by various artists

The Peanuts Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2015 animated film The Peanuts Movie, directed by Steve Martino and produced by Blue Sky Studios. Based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, it is the fifth full-length Peanuts film, and the first in 35 years. The original score is composed by Christophe Beck, with contributions from jazz pianist David Benoit and Meghan Trainor, who performed an original song titled "Better When I'm Dancin', released as a single on October 14, 2015. The soundtrack was digitally released by Epic Records and Fox Music on October 23, 2015.

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