Peanuts (2014–2017) User Reviews

newspapers not specials

[SnoopyStyle · 6/10 · 14 July 2019]

This is a France-produced animated series of the iconic franchise. It is mostly a series of tiny vignettes that are reminiscent of the classic newspaper strips. They are around one minute each that animates a three or four comic strip panels. The animation style is also reminiscent of the comic strip. It is nostalgic in that sense although the episodes don't each have the singular story of the classic specials. It may be more appropriate to fit the shows to its medium. It needs more of the specials and less of the newspaper strips.

Decent Show

[Jace_the_Peanuts_Fan · 6/10 · 9 March 2024]

You can probably already tell by my username that Peanuts is my favorite media franchise of all time. I've actually been waiting for this show to come out years before it was announced in the US, where I'm from. I'm aware that Cartoon Network has previously made spinoffs and/or reboots of popular classic/old cartoons that are from around the same time as Peanuts, like Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Garfield, Scooby Doo, and a few others, and they've also played most of their source materials at some point, but I was surprised that they have not yet made a Peanuts show or even aired any of the old incarnations at all before this came along. I was hoping they would make a Peanuts show, entitle it "Charlie Brown and Friends," air it on Boomerang after it got cancelled, and that it would be in CGI like the Peanuts Movie, but this didn't come out until 2016. It's not everything I was hoping for, but Peanuts is an appropriate title too, and the animation and art style look similar to the old cartoons, which is good enough for me! Also, Boomerang and Cartoon Network aired this simultaneously when it was still being made. If you're confused about the page saying it ran from 2014-2017 and know the Peanuts Movie was released in 2015, this ran from the former dates in France, where it originated, the first trailer for the Peanuts Movie was released in 2014, and this ran from 2016-2016 in America. This is one of the only good modern shows that Boomerang has played. The Boomerang revamp sucked at first because its new commercials, bumpers, and logo were (and still are) unoriginal, it was (and still is) a clone of Cartoon Network (but not quite a rip-off of it because CN owns Boomerang), and it didn't live up to its own name and purpose anymore, but it now mostly plays classic cartoons again, much to my amazement! Boomerang is supposed to be exclusively for classic cartoons, and this should've aired on Cartoon Network only, as good as it is.

This show is very true to the old Peanuts cartoons, little to no changes have been made, and it barely ruined the franchise! A lot of classic cartoons that have been popular with the young and old for generations have been ruined during more recent years, much to my sadness, but thankfully Peanuts has never been ruined! I'd better keep my fingers crossed and hope for the franchise to stay good forever. This is one of the very few good reboots that CN and Boomerang have played. It has a similar variety show/sketch comedy-like format to The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, where it has a main plot that is based on the comics and takes up most of the episodes, with some short skits in between that are also based on the comics. I bet there are some episodes have completely new plots too. The episodes consist mostly of a series of comic strip panels that are reminiscent of the newspaper comics. There are a few callbacks/similar plots to the specials and comics as well. Peanuts (2016) reveals some origin stories that haven't been explained in the older shows/specials, like when Rerun was born and when he started school. The aforementioned episode reveals that for a while, Rerun would do nothing but cry all day every day until he received his first dog kiss from Snoopy. What a good friend Snoopy is! Rerun is one of my favorite characters in the entire franchise, and this marks the first time he has appeared in a long time. It's good to have him back!

Like I said, the animation looks similar to the old specials and TV series, but not exactly like them. It doesn't look too much different. It looks just like the art style in the comic strip and on a lot of the merchandise and promo art from my childhood, which has brought some nostalgia to me!

Peanuts (2016) is not without its flaws, and it's not my favorite Peanuts show. The theme music is corny, some episodes are rehashes of the specials/TV movies, there are a couple of not so good episodes, and Woodstock's chirps sound off and not much like him. He sounds more like Beaker from The Muppets. I like The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, This is America, Charlie Brown, and The Snoopy Show (2021) better. Overall, this show is good but not great, and it's a good show to watch for nostalgia purposes, just for your own entertainment in general, or to introduce the Peanuts franchise to a new generation.

HAD PONTENCIAL

[gutierrezvalero · 8/10 · 5 August 2022]

I must say that this series seemed very good in multiple aspects and in others not, and is that if I remember the first series and peanuts specials, and these are also adaptations of the shulz comic strips, many are mixed or made in another way, if in this version it does not have the same humor, but it highlights a new narrative experience through the strips made in animation, and that is to think about it, a strip came out to date, and because it was a story or independent habit, The shulz family and others did not want peanuts to be touched in the first stories they had, so they limited themselves to only adapting these strips to this series. I was moderately happy about this series. Now it should be clarified that PEANUTS WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER THE DEATH OF SHULZ, the work only and devised only the comic strips, while the animated series had help such as bill melendez, and people more remember to That they happened like this, when it is the opposite, to finish I must say that if there are segments that do not work, such as snoopy and woodstock, since they are only repeated. In addition to the slow and leisurely level of the stories, and above all that he did not know how to represent well the best strips or the best known that peanuts had, he still stood out as the best animated series that there was after the death of shulz, even in some aspects of the new snoopy show.

Funny!

[jakerugh · 9/10 · 21 October 2020]

Great adaption though the voices can sometimes be off. BUT SO hilarious!

Lame tweening / Lacks the charm of the original

[pckq · 1/10 · 4 July 2021]

While the old Peanuts series uses charming frame by frame animation, this new series from 2014 uses cheap tweening as animation method.

Furthermore this is obviously aimed at ADHD kids. Skip. Better luck next time.

Lacks original charm

[morenoc-99997 · 4/10 · 3 March 2022]

Peanuts is my favorite cartoon franchise alongside Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, its nostalgic and holiday vibe just makes the specials more enjoyable. But this show sucks all the charm outta of the original specials and replaces it with this boring and unfunny humor.