The Peanuts special produced between Christmas and Great Pumpkin celebrates summer pastime fun. It has a much more substantial narrative than the holiday specials, with Charlie Brown as a more unambiguous protagonist than the iconic holiday outings. But he’s still doomed with bad breaks, because he’s Charlie Brown.
Plenty fun and better than I expected, though not essential.
I really want to do a retrospective of Bill Melendez’s entire catalog of Peanuts specials at some point.
Is It Good?
Good (5/8)
Note: This capsule review was originally published elsewhere. If I watch this movie again, I might expand this to a full-length review.
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