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It maybe deserves a 7, but the 6 helps balance the ridiculous 10s.

I was probably the biggest peanuts fan as a boy. I still have the snoopy dress up dolls that I gave to my son, had the snoopy boogie oogie oogie wallet, peanuts books, a worn out tape of race for your life Charlie Brown (still best kids movie) as well as all of the TV specials.

Does this movie capture the spirit of the originals? Yes but no.

Yes, in that all the elements are there.

No, in that only the elements are there. An entire film about not talking to the little red haired girl? That becomes tedious. And further, minor spoiler, CB wins in the end! That's a huge issue. CB isn't supposed to win. That's so out of character and off book. Snoopy is supposed to win. CB always comes close and fails. CB fails and Han Solo shoots first. Anything else is blasphemy.

Anyway, that's not the major failing. It's, again, lack of plot. If you want lots of vignettes watch the cartoon on boomerang. Movies are supposed to have stories. And please, Schulz knew this. His movies all had stories. He would have not approved this script.

Oh, and the Red Baron should have been a short before the film. It just slowed down an already slow film.

Signed, a disappointed super fan

First, this movie is a very shallow comedy. No comedy of this nature should be over 2 hours. It means that the funny parts are far too spread out to keep momentum, and shines too much light on the generic, contrived story we've all seen before. There were a few funny scenes and lines (all of them in the trailer), and the rest was BORING. Watched with my wife this past weekend and we both were very disappointed as we had been wanting to see this movie for months. I'm certainly glad we didn't spend $25 on it, and even free (on the video player they provided on our United Airlines flight) it was still a waste of time. There were other movies to choose from and we feel duped into watching this one. We even stopped watching the lame Cars 2 to watch this, and I kind of wish I had watched the end of that one instead. Considering how bad Cars 2 was, that really says something. I'd give this a 1, but I like most of the cast and they all had their moments, but this movie answers the question: "what happens when you stick some of the funniest comic actresses of the year into one movie? You get a mess..."