The Peanuts Movie: A Blue Sky Production

She also had this thing with this cat she owned that was eventually dropped from the comic because Shultz was worried that cat was making Snoopy too much like a real dog when the cat was around.

Yeah, there's a whole passel of characters that didn't get seen much after around 1970 or so. Interestingly, it looks like most of them are in that group shot.

Easy way to fill a crowd scene, I suppose.

I'm excited.

Am I the only one of us that thinks that this movie's title is lame? It feels like it's trying to parody the title of "The Muppet Movie", but unlike Muppet Movie, this one is not the first in a film series.

edited 20th Nov '14 3:42:45 PM by powerpuffbats

They presumably expect for it to be one, though.

This is the fifth Peanuts film, following "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (1969), "Snoopy Come Home" (1972), "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown" (1977), and "Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!) (1980), so it still wouldn't be the first as far as Peanuts movies go. Sure, this might create a new string of Peanuts movies, but it'd be like Muppets Most Wanted, a sequel to one film that is a later installment in a film franchise.

... that's splitting hairs, really.

How is the title trying to parody that of The Muppet Movie? Because it's so vague and basic?

Probably. Part of why i think it is so lame is because this one is a lot more basic than any of the other Peanuts movie titles.

Like, what would they call the sequel (If it gets one)? The Great Peanut Caper? Or just Another Peanuts Movie?

Please note that I am looking forward to this, I just think that the title is lame.

Hollywood wants movie titles to be as simple and stupidly easy to understand as possible.

so THAT'S why those horrible one word movie titles are so common!

edited 20th Nov '14 9:03:46 PM by teddy

1. Look at movie titles in the 40's-80's.

2. Look at movie title 2000-now.

3. Hate everything.

It's perhaps interesting that the new film is called "The Peanuts Movie," whereas all the other Charlie Brown films and specials either had Charlie Brown or Snoopy's name in the title (the only exception I can think of being the fairly recent "Happiness is a Warm Blanket"). It's pretty well known that Shultz hated the name "Peanuts," and I can't say I've ever heard AN Yone outside of a promotional commercial (in which the characters are referred to as "The Peanuts Gang") refer to the strip as "Peanuts".

Not really - do you expect there to be any major connection between this movie and past Peanuts movies? Peanuts have never been all that cross-referential continuity wise.

As long as you're at it, do you have any problem with other "The [Blank] Movie"? Like The Lego Movie? Or The Simpsons Movie?

The Muppets Movie is hardly the first movie to use a title of that sort. All I can see is that you're really grasping at straws that aren't actually there.

Muppet Movie is one of the earliest examples I can think of. Granted, I have little knowledge of live-action movies from before 1972.

Lego Movie I can accept because most Lego video game titles are similar to that (Lego *whatever franchise is being imagined as Legos*

The Simpsons was the first film based off of its property, unlike this one which is the fifth Peanuts film, and coming after some pretty cool film titles (ie: Race For Your Life). So I don't really have a problem with The Simpsons Movie's title either.

It is more an issue with me if it is not the first film in a franchise, and definitely coming after films that have cool titles.

Okay, I'm just going to drop the subject after this.

edited 21st Nov '14 5:47:27 AM by powerpuffbats

.... but this is the first Peanuts film under COMPLETELY different people, after years without a movie. I'd say it's an entirely different ball park than the first 4 Peanuts movies.

I don't see what's the big deal about simple titles.Sure,they're not spectacular,but a title shouldn't be a criticism on the film.Unless it was false advertising.

But it's not like a title like Frozen or The Peanuts Movie should be an actual problem with the film.

Personally, I prefer calling it "The Peanuts Movie" rather than those damn one word titles like "Peanuts" or "Winnie The Pooh".

Really freaking pretentious to name your film the name of the franchise- like it's the singularly defining film of the entire whole. The Movie sounds more like "Hey, we made a movie on this!"

edited 21st Nov '14 3:58:37 PM by Mattonymy

Well...

They kinda did.

"The Movie sounds more like 'Hey, we made a movie on this!'"

Problem with that logic is that there are already four Peanuts movies, so that is moot for Peanuts. Not so much moot on other movies, though.

This movie is aimed at kids and families. This is a new generation of kids. Not all of them may know who the Peanuts even ARE.

That does seem like the strangest aspect of the marketing to not acknowledge that there were others.

Maybe kids are just more familiar with the TV stuff.

Kind of crazy to think about all the people who have been born since the comic officially ended/Shultz died and just how old some of them are by now.

Again see Winnie The Pooh, Muppets, Smurfs, YogiBear, Mr Peabody And Sherman, or basically any other reboot film.

I'm not saying it's a major improvement in creativity, but I'd much rather take a The Simpsons Movie and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie than just titling the film the franchise.

Additionally, in the UK the film is at least being called Snoopy & Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie◊

edited 22nd Nov '14 12:31:07 PM by Mattonymy