Review: "The Peanuts Movie" gives me newfound hope for Humanity and Hollywood alike
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The Peanuts Movie is such an anomaly for Hollywood animated family films, in so many ways, that the more I think about it, the more pleasantly flabbergasted I am that it ever got produced. Here is a major family tentpole, in the year 2015, that lacks even a single pop-culture reference or scatological joke, with nary a celebrity voice in sight, and which eschews any semblance of a high-concept narrative in favor of an exceedingly gentle story about disappointment and optimism. It does not look like any mainstream CGI movie ever made, with a delightfully stylized visual approach that boldly refuses to conform, and it is not winking, cynical, coy, or anything other than whole-heartedly earnest about the world of Charles M. Schulz’s
Review: "The Peanuts Movie" gives me newfound hope for Humanity and Hollywood alike
Review: "The Peanuts Movie" gives me newfound…
Review: "The Peanuts Movie" gives me newfound hope for Humanity and Hollywood alike
The Peanuts Movie is such an anomaly for Hollywood animated family films, in so many ways, that the more I think about it, the more pleasantly flabbergasted I am that it ever got produced. Here is a major family tentpole, in the year 2015, that lacks even a single pop-culture reference or scatological joke, with nary a celebrity voice in sight, and which eschews any semblance of a high-concept narrative in favor of an exceedingly gentle story about disappointment and optimism. It does not look like any mainstream CGI movie ever made, with a delightfully stylized visual approach that boldly refuses to conform, and it is not winking, cynical, coy, or anything other than whole-heartedly earnest about the world of Charles M. Schulz’s