Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015) by Shiranai — 22 Dec 2015

Ok I really don't know what Pixar cocaine reviewers are smoking. Don't get me wrong Pixar makes great movies there is no doubt about that but there is a definite pattern of movies that aren't made by Pixar getting reamed in reviews around awards seasons. Almost to the extent where you can't help but wonder if some strings are being pulled behind the scenes. Is this movie better then Inside Out? No it isn't. However it is one of the better animated films I have seen in awhile.

Most of the critic complaints I see talk about the movie being too tame. This is just sad. This is more then film this is art. This movie was so well put together and so many critics are not so much crapping on it as they are saying "it was nice for a few minutes and then it got old.

I want to make something very clear here. I am not usually a fan of tame movies. There are critics giving this a positive review BECAUSE it plays it safe and is family friendly to the tamest extent. Then there are critics who crap on it because it plays it safe and doesn't have too many risque jokes for adults like so many kids films usually sneak in. I have never been a politically correct person. I have never cared what a movie does or does not contain all I care is that the film is good. This movie is great. Yes it is family friendly and quite tame compared to most G and PG films nowadays. Why is that suddenly a bad thing?

I love to play Grand Theft Auto and Assassin's Creed just like any other hardcore gamer. Does that really mean absolutely everything we watch and interact with in life has to be depressing? This movie had me leaving the theater genuinely feeling good. It had some nice positive messages. Why is that a bad thing? I don't consider myself a religious person by any means hell if anything I am anti religion, This movie taught good values though. Why crap on a movie simply because it was too safe?

As a critic when you review a film you are supposed to review it off of the merit of the film not your own closeminded views.I will say it over and over again. This film was so well put together and executed. I genuinely don't understand where my fellow critic's are coming from.

Now I don't know about you but when I see someone write a review this long I generally check their profile to see if they are just diehard fans of a series or hate something for no reason. You all know the accounts I mean the throwaways giving zeros to hated films and 10s to films we know aren't as good as they are saying they are but they can't help but give the series perfect scores. So I checked my own profile and unfortunately found that for some reason only 2 of my previous reviews show. I don't know if it was a Facebook linking issue or what but 50 something reviews I have written for this site since the site was first online are just gone. I remember writing those two reviews on my cellphone so maybe it synced to a new account or something. So I have no proof of my credibility to offer because apparently it has disappeared into the void.

From the first 10 seconds of the film all the way through to the end this film is true to Peanuts. Everyone who complains about how safe it is? This is an accurate recreation of a comic strip that has been in the public consciousness since the 1950's. A time when frankly far less was considered corrrect or allowed in entertainment. They could have updated and revamped Peanuts changing it entirely throwing in Spongebob type jokes everywhere. If they had done so though would we really be watching Peanuts? Personally I applaud the film creators for staying true to source material OVER SIXTY years old. That takes some serious cajones. I find it a very sad state of affairs that unless a movie has content A,B,C, or doesn't contain content E.

As mentioned in the beginning I am not religious at all quite the opposite. There is a 2 second moment in the film where Charlie Brown makes a somewhat religious yet ambiguous comment. I guess hardcore atheist reviewers who feel like a 2 second inspirational message in a 90 minute long film is "pushing the christianity agenda" so therefore the film should get points docked. I used to be a professional reviewer I stopped I don't even remember why. I am so pissed off that these "critics" get paid to be so biased towards films over the tiniest things. It is very rare you read a film review that doesn't get a good third of its overall score docked because one instant in a film doesn't agree wtih them. There is no realistic scoring method they use. They just throw their comments in and make up a plausible number at the end. Oh wait that is why I left I remember now. Was sick of people dictating to me what I could or could not rate scores because of studio influence.

This is a great movie. Yes it "plays it safe" The source material is SIXTY years old. If it didn't stay true to the original it wouldn't be Peanuts it would be something else. Watch it then judge for yourself.