"Champion Charlie Brown! That has a lovely ring!"

This was an excellent movie version of the comic strip and the early TV specials. It has a good storyline, great animation, humorous parts and superb music. Vince Guaraldi...
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"Champion Charlie Brown! That has a lovely ring!"

This was an excellent movie version of the comic strip and the early TV specials. It has a good storyline, great animation, humorous parts and superb music. Vince Guaraldi provides much of the score, and, as always, it is excellent. There are also songs not by Guaraldi, which are still wonderful ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown," "Failure Face," "I Before E," and "Champion Charlie Brown.")

Charlie Brown makes his first big accomplishment by winning his class spelling bee, which leads to bigger and better things. This is a great contrast to the many failures he had in the first part of the movie.

It is the typical whimsical Peanuts animation that is enjoyable to watch. This particular movie has interesting perspectives, as well, like when three characters are onscreen at once during the baseball game, separated by multicolored squares.

It has funny moments, as when Snoopy gets water when Linus faints, runs to Linus's location, and drinks the water himself.

There are some strange moments accompanying the music. They had a lot of filler time showing random stuff with the music, like churches and priests with classical music, multicolored hockey players in Guaraldi's "Skating," and stars and stripes with "The Star-Spangled Banner." The words in "I Before E" aren't always spelled correctly and don't always match what Linus and Charlie Brown are singing.

This is a great movie (that even teaches about spelling)!