Quem é Você, Charlie Brown?

Who doesn't like Charlie Brown? I was hoping for a light-hearted informative biography on Charles' Schultz's life. I ended up with a politically-charged progressive woke film. I'm open minded and accept everyone but there were far reaches made in this doc that had nothing to do with the subject matter. Oh brother.

This documentary about charlie brown and his maker start out great. Then after the first 10min you start slowly to see where this is heading. Is it really impossible to honor anything from another time, without dragging in the lgbtq and feminist with their agenda?... dont waste your time watching this, stick to the old comics and catroon films. If anything get remaked avoid it as the pest.

In keeping up my record of watching all the movies on Apple TV, I landed on "Who Are You, Charlie Brown?" a documentary about Peanuts and its creator, Charles Schulz. Generally, I thought it was fine, but unlike other documentaries I couldn't overcome my disinterest in the subject matter to make the viewing worthwhile.

Charlie Brown (Tyler James Nathan) is asked to produce a piece of homework, a 500-word essay on "who he is". Sent into an introspective funk, he asks his friends and schoolmates what they think of him. These animated sections are intercut with a documentary about Charles Schulz, utilising archive footage, with new talking head style interviews with his friends, family and pop culture fans to explore who he was.

The biggest issue I had with this documentary was me. I know who the Peanuts characters are, and I've maybe seen that Halloween animated film a few times - but as Kevin Smith says "Peanuts is ingrained into American Pop culture" and I'm not American. What I'm saying is, I didn't approach this with much in built affection for his creation and, capable as though this documentary was, it never really inspired much within me.

It's well made though. The conceit works, with the looping narrative of Charlie Brown exploring who he is, mixed in with the information we get about his creator. The talking heads are a mixed bag, some seeming like Peanuts had a genuine effect on their life and others, who I don't recognise, who seem prepared to say that they liked it and not much else. The insights from the family are best, and the footage of Schulz himself. It's quite emotional when he talks about giving up the strip as he's dying of colon cancer.

It's an affectionate look at his life and work, mixed in with a new cartoon. Apart from the odd moment though, it's not honest or surprising enough to stick with me or convert me to an uberfan.

They went out of their way to push an agenda. Truly cringeworthy at times.

This is a well tell documentary that uses the comedy and graphic style of Peanuts series. Nevertheless, the weird interpretation that some of the guests make about Shultz's work, forcing a relation with feminism, LGBT and racial issues, makes this documentary uncomfortable at some points. Especially taking in account that they deliberately cut all about his Christian faith. For example, they never talked about how the Christmas special ended with Jesus story and how that's the real meaning of Christmas.

In summary, this is a documentary about Peanuts beginnings, their impact on society and how this could fits with some cultural agendas.