***Some spoilers Below***
A well-produced short, but has some issues.
In the football game, Lucy repeatedly pulls the football away. This is the long-running gag, but the second time, she asks if she would pull the football away in a game this important. He thinks and says no, but she had just done so! Of course, it happens again; they should have called this "You're A Moron, Charlie Brown," just for this point. My main issue here is that this happens in plain sight of everyone, but they all blame Charlie Brown, booing him or making caustic comments at his expense, but no one seems upset with (Satan's daughter) Lucy. If this were real, they would turn en-mass on Lucy in a kind of mob rule kind of way here. To take this to unbelievable extremes, it happens for a total of five times, getting similar responses each time.
I have been re-watching many of these childhood specials recently, and I've been struck at how outright nasty the kids are in them. I mean, I know kids often are cruel to each other, but if any child grew up with this kind of torture, he or she would likely socially degrade to the point of becoming a columbine-style school shooter. Yet in this one, the kids have very little reason to be angry with CB. Again, these kids would be shouting for Lucy's blood. Peanuts were apparently not as heartwarming as remembered from youth.
Additionally, the little red haired girl was supposed to be the girl CB never gets. Apparently, even though he can't remember it (and we don't get to see it,) he supposedly sweeps her off her feet and is the life of the party at the ball. This kind of blows the whole point of this unapproachable girl in the story-line.
A well-produced short, but has some issues.
In the football game, Lucy repeatedly pulls the football away. This is the long-running gag, but the second time, she asks if she would pull the football away in a game this important. He thinks and says no, but she had just done so! Of course, it happens again; they should have called this "You're A Moron, Charlie Brown," just for this point. My main issue here is that this happens in plain sight of everyone, but they all blame Charlie Brown, booing him or making caustic comments at his expense, but no one seems upset with (Satan's daughter) Lucy. If this were real, they would turn en-mass on Lucy in a kind of mob rule kind of way here. To take this to unbelievable extremes, it happens for a total of five times, getting similar responses each time.
I have been re-watching many of these childhood specials recently, and I've been struck at how outright nasty the kids are in them. I mean, I know kids often are cruel to each other, but if any child grew up with this kind of torture, he or she would likely socially degrade to the point of becoming a columbine-style school shooter. Yet in this one, the kids have very little reason to be angry with CB. Again, these kids would be shouting for Lucy's blood. Peanuts were apparently not as heartwarming as remembered from youth.
Additionally, the little red haired girl was supposed to be the girl CB never gets. Apparently, even though he can't remember it (and we don't get to see it,) he supposedly sweeps her off her feet and is the life of the party at the ball. This kind of blows the whole point of this unapproachable girl in the story-line.