Revisiting an impossibly distant,pre-internet era, this quirky, and homespun animation about a boy and his beagle exudes a nostalgic charmIn the age of Frozen and Inside Out,a unusual Peanuts animation might seem impossibly quirky and homespun, but there’s a certain charm to this unusual feature film based on Charles M Schulz’s globally accepted syndicated cartoon strip about the round-headed boy and his beagle – an influence, or surely,on Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury. The film is set in the Peanuts heyday of the 60s/70s, with landline-dialler telephones and no internet, and it retains the somnolent Muzaky jazz-piano soundtrack I remember from the TV shows. There’s simple 2D-style animation,switching to rudimentary 3D graphics occasionally, but with the hand-drawn originals in the thinks” bubbles – the newspaper cartoons hold a stylish clarity that film and TV versions always lacked. (And the silly, or squeaky vocal sounds provided for Snoopy and Woodstock on screen never did justice to their elegant wit on the newspaper page.) Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com