First they have to read "Crime and Punishment" and next up is "War and Peace"? And that at their ages? these teachers need to be fired. Anyway, "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" is another half-hour television special and it was made roughly 30 years ago. Melendez, Jaimes and Schulz worked on this together as they did so many more times. And even if this one here did not manage to get Emmy.nominated like they usually did, it's still one of the better Charlie Brown films in my opinion. All the crushes are funny, everybody seems to have in interest in somebody, but nobody is getting who he wants. Kinda tragic actually, especially how Charlie is sleeping when the cute little red-haired girl does actually appear at the party. And even the segments with the dog and the birdie are funny this time, like when he gets the signs in order so that it says Happy New Year. All in all, a good and entertaining cartoon and superior to pretty much all other Charlie Brown short films. Recommended.
