In the tradition of the Peanuts Valentine's Day movies, "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown" is, as the title already states, another love-themed Charlie Brown movie. Charlie is basically busy during the entire 25 minutes drooling over the cute redhead girl from his class. And the only thing that distracts us from it is a football game, in which Charlie, as usual, is the one that costs them the victory. Well, actually it's Lucy's fault, but Charlie once again has to take the blame. So he does. At least, there is some solace in the end for him on the romantic front. So was it just a dream or did it really happen? I usually like the redhead girl references in these films, but a whole movie on the matter seems too much in my opinion. Also this one totally lacked other story-lines or even scenes that do not involve Charlie with his crush. It's always nice to see a bit about the other characters as well, but not so in this one. The writer is Charles M. Schulz as usual. Director is not Melendez this time, but Roman, before he moved on to Garfield. In my opinion, it's no surprise this one wasn't Emmy nominated as these Peanuts half hour films usually were. It's certainly among the weaker ones and only the biggest fans of the series should check it out. Thumbs down.
It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown
(1977 TV Short)
Charlie finally gets his girl
23 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers