It’s nearly impossible to recapture the simplistic charm of Charles Schultz consistently-beloved Peanuts comic strip, notably outside of its hand-drawn animation style.
Nevertheless, The Peanuts Movies serves as a warm, lovely, sweet-natured, and fitting tribute to the classic cartoon series, elevated by incredible 3D animation made in a 2D style and commendable vocal performances from its young cast.
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It helped to bring out the child protagonist’s youthful side, appropriately enough, allowing the child actor to ingrain an impressionable good nature to the character’s various cinematic misadventures, giving everything his best shot (or his best kick) — even when facing countless suburban-set odds.