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, 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]].

** Also, it would have been nice to see how everyone reacted to the reveal that [[spoiler: Peppermint Patty was the one who got 100% in her test]].

* 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.

* OneSceneWonder: Snoopy's siblings - his sister Belle and his brothers Spike, Olaf, Andy, and Marbles - are featured on the poster but only appear in the film in one of the mid-credits scenes, toasting Snoopy's successful rescue of Fifi with a round of root beers.

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

** 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, [[TropesAreTools only the chorus is played]].
** Also, two Meghan Trainor songs were produced for the film. [[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]].

* EarWorm:
** "Better When I'm Dancin". As with most Meghan Trainor songs, you'll be humming it to yourself for days.
** A more insidious one: the ''Mister Softee'' jingle.

** Also, two Meghan Trainor songs were produced for the film. [[TropesAreTools In all fairness, however, they both have a breezy feel to them unlike the rest of her work]].

** The announcement that ''Peanuts'' would be adapted into a CGI film had plenty of diehard fans disowning it immediately. Then [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome the trailer came out]] and the Internet '''exploded'''!!

* AwesomeArt:

* SweetDreamsFuel: The entire film, but especially these moments:

* 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.

* BrokenBase: Opinions are split about [[spoiler:the movie's ending. 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, 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]].

* BrokenBase:
** Showing the Little Red-Haired Girl on screen. Should the audience finally get to see how she looks after decades as TheUnseen? Or should the audience continue to see her exclusively through Charlie Brown's eyes and his infatuation with her? This actually isn't the first time she's been shown on-camera[[labelnote:†]] (''It's Your First Kiss'' and the New Year's special both prominently featured her, the latter even having her speak – however, despite Schulz writing both, he insisted they [[CanonDiscontinuity "did not count"]])[[/labelnote]], but she's much more prominent here than ever before. Though it's worth noting that the movie, to its credit, actively ''avoids'' showing her face[[note]] (kind of… early on there are some shots where her face is fully visible, but they're usually out of focus and very brief, as well as framed such that obscuring her face would ironically draw ''more'' attention to it)[[/note]] until the last five minutes.
** Opinions are split about [[spoiler:the movie's ending. 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, 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]].
** Not a widespread point of debate, but a few purists question Snoopy's attitude in this movie. In the movie, when not fighting the Red Baron, Snoopy is doing everything in his power to help Charlie Brown succeed and goes out of his way to do so. In the comics, while he genuinely does like Charlie Brown, Snoopy is rather dismissive of him and his problems most of the time, choosing instead to indulge himself in his own world and only really acknowledges Charlie Brown when he's hungry... and in the Melendez animations, Snoopy can be an outright {{jerkass}} to others.

* 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.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: If you want people to like you, just be yourself. You don't have to go to crazy lengths to impress people.

* {{The Woobie}}: Charlie Brown gets nothing right through the first half of the film and yet we feel sorry for him.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: A meta example: the cast brings together side characters from both the early and later phases of the comic, putting (for example) both Patty (plaid dress) and Peppermint Patty alongside each other for one of the few times, if not the only time in franchise history.

* FranchiseOriginalSin:
** As mentioned below in OlderThanTheyThink, this isn't the first time [[spoiler:Charlie Brown wins in the end]]. It's not even the first time he [[spoiler:gets an expression of interest from the Little Red Haired Girl. That dates back to ''You're In Love, Charlie Brown'' from ''1967''.]]
** Snoopy's Red Baron story has been described as {{Filler}} by some people (see {{Padding}} below). But cartoons with Snoopy as the main character aside, when has he ''not'' had a side plot?

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The film as a whole for Blue Sky. The film became widely acclaimed from both critics and audiences alike, and the film became their most critically acclaimed film to date. Not only that, but the film also became a commercial success, though it remains their lowest-grossing film. Blue Sky's [[WesternAnimation/IceAge5CollisionCourse next film]] that followed would become their worst-reviewed film and would suffer from being a follow-up to this film.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: A meta example: the cast includes almost every regular character to appear in the comic, even little-known comic characters like Eudora and 555 95472.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Charlie Brown is voiced by Noah Schnapp, aka. Will Byers from ''Series/StrangerThings.''

** On the flip side, older audiences who were worried the film might try too hard to appeal to modern kids with [[WereStillRelevantDammit loads of social media references and pop star cameos]] 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.

** 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. This looks really odd.

** Snoopy's eyes and nose move to one side of his head to suggest him looking towards the camera, instead of turning his head, making for a very odd looking face. This looks even stranger compared to the kids, whose faces animate the way you would expect.

** One example, which can be seen at the start of the film, is how Snoopy's eyes and nose move to one side of his head to suggest him looking towards the camera, instead of turning his head, making for a very odd looking face.