A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Movie Reviews of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Movie Review: Subversive,wry,magnificent.
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply, this is the best Christmas show ever produced.If it were made presently,the edge would be off, the sountrack would be sung by various"divas" and teen hearththrobs,and Charlie Brown himself would different. This masterpiece,which was awarded a Peabody[and an emmy],is no less than a subtle,full frontal attack on Christmas as it is now celebrated.By using the beloved Peanuts characters.Schultz gets away with something that now he would be censored for. The plot,known to most,is simple. In this first Peanuts special, Charlie Brown,hapless everyman with a good great heart,is looking for the soul of ChristmAS.With his intrepid buddy Linus[and his ever present security blanket],he becomes the head [director ]of the local christmas pagent. When he is sent out to buy a christmas tree , well, you'll see.Linue delivers the most accurate summation of christmas known to exist.No teacher,scholar,theologian,etc.could ever touch this.The ending,itself is perfect.Vince Guaraldi's score is now legendary,and if anything is UNDERRATED.For a few years CBS used to,this is delicious irony,cut off the ending to bring a commercial!Boy,they sort of missed the boat,hunh?Do yourself a favor,buy this,play it whenever you get depressed.Better than prozac,and no side effects.I'd give it 10,20,30 Review: Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward MenSummary: 5 Stars What more can one say about this perfect Christmas perennial? Quite often, growing up with annually televised programs can affect a person's critique of the show, with personal feelings becoming involved in the remembrances of the actual quality of the work. Not with this one baby! "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is quality going all the way, from the calm, cool opening with the Peanuts gang skating to Vince Guaraldi's inspired score, the amazing on-target commentaries regarding commercialism, through the incredibly relevant and moving moment when Linus tells Charlie Brown (and all of us) the true "meaning" of Christmas. It amazes me whenever I experience that scene over and over again and my reaction to it never changes. Could we ever imagine, in today's "politically correct", and so much more "enlightened" era, having a cartoon character reciting a religious passage in an animated holiday special.....and all without any kind of preaching or forcing it down ones throat? I'm surprised TV networks can even televise it without editing what might be "offensive" to certain members of the audience.
God Bless Us Everyone indeed.
Luigi ~ NYC
Movie Review: Very Good Transfer to DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Commenting on what a wonderful Christmas special this is would be superfluous: I would only be echoing the comments of all the reviews of the VHS edition. As for the DVD edition, it's a good transfer, clean, no artifacts, good sound. Skip the second feature, "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown." It just doesn't compare. My only gripe about the DVD: they fixed the one moment in the original master that captured my attention and my heart. Every year, I watched for the moment when the Peanuts gang gathered around the newly decorated little tree and began singing "Loo loo loo, loo loo loo loo loo" to the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." As the camera pulls in on the left side of the group and pans right, Pig Pen's head disappears for one frame when they all take a breath. You can see Patty's orange dress suddenly appear where his head was. I was really sorry to see them fix that. I don't know why, but it makes the cartoon even more endearing to me.Movie Review: Charlie Brown's Christmas
Summary: 5 Stars
Charlie Brown's Christmas is truly one of the most memorable of any christmas specials. Christmas, in fact the entire month of December is my favorite time of the year. The music is excellent as are the script, voices, and the artwork. The plot is excellent too. Charlie Brown( a kid most people can identify with) is feeling depressed by the commercialization of Christmas. So to try to rectify the problem , and at the advice of Lucy he directs the schools Christmas play which all of the peanuts main characters are involved in. However the task is too difficult when the rest of the kids fail to cooperate. So he sets off to find a Christmas tree for the play. He sees a lone, small, an scraggely tree. He decides to take that one. The rest of the kids amke fun of him when they see it. However with the help of Linus he learns the truem meaning of Christmas. The DVD however was lacking they tried to remove the static white noise in the background and instead it seems to lose all sound in betweenMovie Review: This Christmas special really makes me feel special
Summary: 5 Stars
I've watched 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' literally ever since I was born. Charlie Brown's disgust at the commercialization of Christmas is ever more relevant---never mind that the show was originally produced in the 1960's.
I could always relate to Charlie Brown. He is a nice guy who really tries hard to do the right thing--but is underappreciated by his classmates just for being himself. His really big heart prompts a tree rescue and philosophical search for holiday meaning, itself a pretty admirable task for an animated special which could have done a less ambitious script.
Linus's school auditorium speech is supposed to get audiences in the show--and at home--thinking about the non-commercial side of Christmas. Christmas should not be about how much stuff you have, but what you can do for others. Again, this is a timeless message which easily transcends the original airdate and many perspectives who celebrate this holiday.