Either I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown or A Charlie Brown Christmas has to be my favorite Peanuts special/TV movie! This came out the year I was born (2003). I've had a DVD of it for as long as I can remember, watched it countless times, and refuse to grow out of it as well as the rest of the Peanuts franchise. I'm well aware that Peanuts is for everybody and you're never too old for it, but I thought I'd still mention it anyway. I still love the Peanuts series no matter how many times I see it!
If you've seen this before, you know that Lucy and Linus's little brother Rerun is the main protagonist here. He's one of my favorite Peanuts characters. He has mostly minor roles, much to my disappointment. Thankfully, he's one of the main characters in the more recent Apple TV+ series, The Snoopy Show. He's a cute and funny character, and Jimmy Bennett did a spot-on job voicing him! He has some humorous and memorable dialogue here, like "Oh no! It's B of the B Day! Oh no!", "I wonder if there's any way I can get out of here," "You can talk to the moon, because the sun won't listen," and "Happiness is a warm puppy!" I've repeated some of his lines here at least once, and it's true that happiness is a warm puppy. How could one go wrong with that? If you don't know what B of the B Day is, that's short for "Back of the Bike Day." Rerun wants Snoopy to be his dog, but when Charlie Brown tells him Snoopy has siblings, including a brother Spike who is coming to visit soon, he thinks maybe Spike could be his dog. Spike stays at the Van Pelts' house for a while, but the parents don't let Rerun keep him. It sure was nice of Charlie Brown to "share" his dog with Rerun! I've got to admit that the latter and Snoopy have a great friendship; Snoopy was happy to let his friend pull him on a sled at the end. They gave some some funny moments together, like when they laugh and run around with a bag of cookies. Not only was this my first exposure to Rerun, both also my first exposure to Snoopy's siblings Spike, Andy, Olaf, Marbles, and Belle. I didn't know that they've appeared in other specials until long after I first came across this one.
After all these years, Peanuts has surprisingly never lost its charm, and this special/movie proves it! All the characters are still their same old likable selves. Bill Melendez still voiced Snoopy and was the co-director of the Peanuts specials until he died in 2008, and this has quiet, relaxing, and sometimes toe tapping jazz music that sounds similar to the music from the other Peanuts installments. Even the franchise's theme song, Linus and Lucy, and the song Christmas Is Coming from A Charlie Brown Christmas are present. Most of the scenes are based on Peanuts comics, and I've read most of them. Charles Schulz would be proud!
If you like the other three Charlie Brown Christmas specials, you'll definitely like this too! I don't know what else to say.
If you've seen this before, you know that Lucy and Linus's little brother Rerun is the main protagonist here. He's one of my favorite Peanuts characters. He has mostly minor roles, much to my disappointment. Thankfully, he's one of the main characters in the more recent Apple TV+ series, The Snoopy Show. He's a cute and funny character, and Jimmy Bennett did a spot-on job voicing him! He has some humorous and memorable dialogue here, like "Oh no! It's B of the B Day! Oh no!", "I wonder if there's any way I can get out of here," "You can talk to the moon, because the sun won't listen," and "Happiness is a warm puppy!" I've repeated some of his lines here at least once, and it's true that happiness is a warm puppy. How could one go wrong with that? If you don't know what B of the B Day is, that's short for "Back of the Bike Day." Rerun wants Snoopy to be his dog, but when Charlie Brown tells him Snoopy has siblings, including a brother Spike who is coming to visit soon, he thinks maybe Spike could be his dog. Spike stays at the Van Pelts' house for a while, but the parents don't let Rerun keep him. It sure was nice of Charlie Brown to "share" his dog with Rerun! I've got to admit that the latter and Snoopy have a great friendship; Snoopy was happy to let his friend pull him on a sled at the end. They gave some some funny moments together, like when they laugh and run around with a bag of cookies. Not only was this my first exposure to Rerun, both also my first exposure to Snoopy's siblings Spike, Andy, Olaf, Marbles, and Belle. I didn't know that they've appeared in other specials until long after I first came across this one.
After all these years, Peanuts has surprisingly never lost its charm, and this special/movie proves it! All the characters are still their same old likable selves. Bill Melendez still voiced Snoopy and was the co-director of the Peanuts specials until he died in 2008, and this has quiet, relaxing, and sometimes toe tapping jazz music that sounds similar to the music from the other Peanuts installments. Even the franchise's theme song, Linus and Lucy, and the song Christmas Is Coming from A Charlie Brown Christmas are present. Most of the scenes are based on Peanuts comics, and I've read most of them. Charles Schulz would be proud!
If you like the other three Charlie Brown Christmas specials, you'll definitely like this too! I don't know what else to say.