History YMMV / ThePeanutsMovie

* BrokenBase: Opinions are split about the movie's ending. [[spoiler:With a race against time to talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl, the universe as always conspires against Charlie Brown to make absolutely sure it doesn't happen. After one obstacle too many, Charlie Brown very nearly gives up hope and pleads for things to work out just this once. Sure enough, the universe decides to [[ThrowTheDogABone cut him a break]] and he makes it in time, and the movie ends with him receiving affirmation from the LRHG and his friends that he is indeed a good person. Some reviewers felt this totally violates Schulz's original comic, as Charlie Brown ''never'' wins. Others felt that having Chuck not lose is a nice change of pace (and Schulz himself did show some lament that he didn't ThrowTheDogABone where Charlie Brown was concerned in the later years of his life), making the LRHG Charlie Brown's pen pal is a good compromise, and that some traditions are meant to be broken; there's also the opinion that the ending balances out the excessively ''cruel'' endings to some of the earlier specials. Plus, giving Charlie Brown a happy ending makes sense since Fox only had the rights to make one movie]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: This version's Charlie Brown is voiced by Creator/NoahSchnapp, a.k.a. Will Byers from ''Series/StrangerThings.''

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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The movie's tie-in game ''Snoopy's Grand Adventure'' has been well received by gamers as an above-average platformer that can be played by both kids and adults. It also helps that the game isn't a re-telling of the movie.

** Some fans are critical of the movie's soundtrack for mixing in orchestral music and pop songs with the franchise's classic themes, rather than having purely smooth jazz in the style of Vince Guaraldi. Those fans clearly ignore or forget ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', which had a very eclectic score (with no jazz) courtesy of the Sherman Brothers... and that movie came out while Guaraldi was still alive!
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Let's be honest, how many of you assumed that [[spoiler:Snoopy would give his story to Charlie Brown after his book report got destroyed?]]

* HarsherInHindsight: The FreezeFrameBonus of Sally's response to winning the talent show being "I'm going to Disneyland!" -- while it at first became more humorous when Disney bought 20th Century Fox, this became tragically prophetic when in 2021, two years after the acquisition, Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios, and thus [[StillbornFranchise killed any hope for a sequel]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lucy made a comment about The Little Red-Haired Girl not being that pretty. Did she say that because she was jealous of her, or was it because Schreoder, her personal crush, was admiring the girl instead of her?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lucy made a comment about The Little Red-Haired Girl not being that pretty. Did she say that because she was jealous of her, or was it because Schroder, her personal crush, was admiring the girl?

** This is not the first ''Peanuts'' production to have different genres of music in its soundtrack beyond just smooth jazz, as ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' featured a very diverse, orchestral soundtrack from the Sherman Brothers (in fact, that film featured no jazz at all unlike this film).

* {{Padding}}: Snoopy's side-adventure against the Red Baron can be considered as {{Filler}} by some people.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lucy made a comment about The Little Red-Haired Girl not being that pretty. Did she say that because she was jealous of her, or was it because Schroder, her personal crush, was admiring the girl.

* HarsherInHindsight: The FreezeFrameBonus of Sally's response to winning the talent show being "I'm going to Disneyland!". While it at first became more humorous when Disney bought 20th Century Fox, this became tragically prophetic when in 2021, two years after the acquisition, Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios, and thus [[StillbornFranchise killed any hope for a sequel.]]

** This is now the first ''Peanuts'' production to have different genres of music in its soundtrack beyond just smooth jazz, as ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' featured a very diverse, orchestral soundtrack from the Sherman Brothers (in fact, that film featured no jazz at all unlike this film).

** Also worth mentioning are the beautiful hand-drawn {{ImagineSpot}}s, which match the style of the comic strip down to the last ink-line.

** This film is not the first time [[spoiler:The Little Red-Haired Girl had been shown on-screen, as she was previously shown on-screen in a few of the TV specials, most notably ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown''.]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: Although it's a rarity, [[spoiler:this isn't the first time Charlie Brown ''wins'' in the end.]]

* {{Moe}}: The Little Red-Haired Girl.
* NightmareFuel: During the talent show, [[spoiler:Shermy as a mime]].

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: To others, however, the CGI is gorgeous in just how well it captures the style of the original comic and generally feels like a 2-D feature when it's actually 3-D.

* WereStillRelevantDammit:
** The official trailer used "That's What I Like" by Music/FloRida in Snoopy's ImagineSpot, which caused some fans to worry that the film would not be using Guaraldi-style smooth jazz scores ''exclusively''. While the score is dominated with Guaraldi's work and orchestral themes, the Music/FloRida song in question was during the montage where [[spoiler:Charlie Brown becomes the most popular kid in school thanks to getting a "perfect" test score]]. On the other hand, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools only the chorus is played]].
** Also, two Meghan Trainor songs were produced for the film. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools In all fairness, however, they both have a breezy feel to them unlike the rest of her work and jibe well with the movie's tone]].
** Zigzagged with a trailer that has [[Music/WhosNext "Baba O'Riley"]] by Music/TheWho playing, but has a few modern songs playing in between (but only for a few seconds per song). The Who's song might be an inversion, because it could be [[NostalgiaGoggles trying to appeal to people who read the strip during their childhood, given that that was when The Who was popular]]. The most infamous of the modern songs appearing in the trailer is the DJ Khaled song "All I Do Is Win" during the clip of Charlie Brown taking part in the school's dancing contest. Thankfully, that was a trailer placeholder, with "Better When I'm Dancin" being used during the actual scene in the film.

* UncannyValley:
** To some people, the CGI animation. The Blu-ray and DVD (under the "Snoopy Snippets" option) feature a little animation of Snoopy and Charlie Brown on the frozen lake, skating and playing hockey, respectively. However, it appears to be an ''early'' animation test, as when Snoopy skates, he is lit differently, making him look more three-dimensional than in the movie, despite still having a 2.5-D appearance similar to how he appears in the final product.
** The human characters have normally animated faces, but characters with a snout, like Snoopy and Woodstock, always keep their heads turned to the side, while their nose and eyes move around to suggest them turning their heads, similar to the comics. This doesn't look too strange on a still, flat image, but on a moving, three dimensional model, it looks really off.

* RetroactiveRecognition: This version's Charlie Brown is voiced by Noah Schnapp, a.k.a. Will Byers from ''Series/StrangerThings.''

* CriticalResearchFailure: Some of the movie's marketing claims that this is the first time the Peanuts characters have ever been on the big screen, despite the fact that there have been a total of [[WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown four]] [[WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome theatrical]] ''[[WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown Peanuts]]'' [[WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown movies]] released from the 1960s to the 1980s. ScrewedByTheLawyers might be in effect here – those four other films are owned by the various subdivisions of the Creator/{{Viacom}} conglomerate.[[note]] The first two are owned by Creator/{{CBS}} via their now defunct "Cinema Center Films" division. [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]] owns the third and fourth films directly, and they have home video rights to the first two as well.[[/note]] ''The Peanuts Movie'' comes via Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, so they probably ''can't'' legally acknowledge the earlier movies. It ''is'' [[ExactWords the first movie to use the "Peanuts" name]], as well as the first all-CGI Peanuts movie.
* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: The film had several of [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Charles Schulz's]] relatives on board, with his son and grandson being among the writing team. In addition, the animators made the effort to make their CGI look as close to the original television specials as possible, by not utilizing motion blur and giving the movie an overall 2.5-D aesthetic.
* HilariousInHindsight: The FreezeFrameBonus of Sally's response to winning the talent show being "I'm going to Disneyland!" becomes funnier in retrospect because four years later, 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, the makers of the movie, got bought by Disney themselves. A [[FunnyAneurysmMoment little less funny]] after Disney killed Blue Sky, and thus [[StillbornFranchise any hope for a sequel.]]

** Christophe Beck's score isn't half bad either, most notably his two renditions of "Linus & Lucy": [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Img-_Q6TSZk an upbeat, jazzy version]] used in the film's climax, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkz3ia_PtYc a slow, nostalgic piano version]] for the end credits.

* WinTheCrowd:
** The announcement that ''Peanuts'' would be adapted into a CGI film had plenty of diehard fans disowning it immediately. Then [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome the trailer came out]] and the Internet '''exploded'''!!
** Furthermore, there was some concern that ''Peanuts'' could not appeal to modern kids, given that it was around when their grandparents were young. When the film came out, however, it got a A+ on Cinemascore from polled audiences 18 and younger.
** On the flip side, older audiences were worried that the movie might do like many of Blue Sky's other works and try too hard to appeal to modern kids with loads of social media references and pop star cameos. These fans were put at ease by the news that the Schulz estate was working closely with the studio to make sure they stayed faithful to Sparky's original work.

* AnAesop: If you want people to like you, be yourself. You don't have to bend over backwards to impress people.

** Of note is that this is perhaps the first time where all the characters are ''exactly'' on-model to their comic strip counterparts, with none of the warping of head shapes or bizarre facial disproportions that characterize the vast majority of previous ''Peanuts'' animations.[[note]] A lot of that was a necessary design choice by Bill Melendez to fit Schulz's art into traditional animation.[[/note]]
** Also worth mentioning are the beautifully animated {{imagine spot}}s done in the style of [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} the comic strip]].

** In one of the promos, Charlie Brown says, "Is there an emoji for 'good grief'?" Thank Sparky it doesn't appear in the movie.
** Largely a DefiedTrope in the actual movie, however. Aside from Flo Rida and Trainor's musical contributions, the movie makes practically no concessions to contemporary pop culture and strives for a timeless feel, thanks in part to the creators making a point of excluding any sort of technology or references that wouldn't have turned up in the original comic strip.

** On the flip side, older audiences were worried that the movie might do like many of Blue Sky's other works and try too hard to appeal to modern kids with [[WereStillRelevantDammit loads of social media references and pop star cameos]]. These fans were put at ease by the news that the Schulz estate was working closely with the studio to make sure they stayed faithful to Sparky's original work.

* HilariousInHindsight: The FreezeFrameBonus of Sally's response to winning the talent show being "I'm going to Disneyland!" becomes funnier in retrospect because four years later, 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, the makers of the movie, got bought by Disney themselves.

* BeYourself: Charlie Brown goes to impressive lengths to get the attention of the Little Red-Haired Girl. It turns out he didn't need to do any of it for her to see him as the wonderful person he is.