A Boy Named Charlie Brown and
Snoopy Come Home, the first two features from writer Charles Schulz, producer Lee Mendelson, and director Bill Melendez. What's so striking about these films isn't their technical polish or musical scores, but their melancholy themes of failure and loss. Few animated features have ventured into this territory, but I'm guessing the success of the
Peanuts comic strip and television specials (not to mention the films' low budgets) gave Schulz the license to preserve on film what makes his creation so unique. The later features lessened in impact, but these first outings are touching, graphically imaginative, and funny. Check 'em out!
A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy Come Home, the first two features from writer Charles Schulz, producer Lee Mendelson, and director Bill Melendez. What's so striking about these films isn't their technical polish or musical scores, but their melancholy themes of failure and loss. Few animated features have ventured into this territory, but I'm guessing the success of the Peanuts comic strip and television specials (not to mention the films' low budgets) gave Schulz the license to preserve on film what makes his creation so unique. The later features lessened in impact, but these first outings are touching, graphically imaginative, and funny. Check 'em out!
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