I am profoundly ambivalent about this new Peanuts movie, which, judging by the below teaser, is a thing that apparently exists:
On one hand I’ve read a whole lot of Peanuts, and watched a whole lot of Peanuts specials, because I am human who grew up in the ’80s; naturally, there’s a fair amount of affection for those characters built into my consciousness, except for that goddamn Lucy, who’s a fucking monster.
On the other hand, the idea of Blue Sky Studios, a CG kids flick factory that makes huge amounts of money by making remarkably forgettable kids movies (so far they’ve cranked out Robots, Horton Hears a Who!, Rio, Epic, and four Ice Ages, with a fifth on the way), seems… well, okay, fine. It was inevitable someone would do this at some point; it was just as inevitable that when they did, the charm of Charles Schulz’s scratchy, wobbly, doodly style would be smoothed out with sterile, plasticine CG. And a 2001 reference, because nothing gets today’s kids excited like a 2001 reference!
Anyway, let us decide, Blogtown: Based purely on this slight nothing of a teaser, shall we CONDEMN or ALLOW this new Peanuts movie? Please remember that all Blogtown votes are permanent and legally binding.
Condemn. I have some affection for Peanuts too. But if anything needed to be done with actual animation instead of CG, it’s another Peanuts movie (or special or whatever).
Probably don’t need to tell you we should be voting to condemn or allow at least twice a month. Just saying.
Some things were meant to be rendered in two dimensions; Peanuts is one of those things.