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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Snoopy, come home? He never left MY heart..., 2 Aug 2004
First released in 1972, this cartoon outing features the Peanuts gang created by the late, great Charles M. Schulz (who also wrote this story).'Snoopy, Come Home', as you probably guessed, features Snoopy quite heavily. Snoopy's frustration at being banned from the beach and getting a salvo of harsh words from his owner Charlie Brown leads him to rub others up the wrong way, and they resent him for it. However, things come to a head when one day he receives a letter from a mysterious young girl named Lila, who is in hospital. Distraught, Snoopy feels impelled to go and visit her in the hospital, so, together with his bird friend Woodstock (who makes his first screen appearance in this film), he sets off in haste, leaving Charlie Brown completely puzzled and going out of his mind. But the problems have yet to start... Over thirty years later, this still has the ability to charm, delight and, in one particular scene, invoke tears (but I won't give it away) -- believe me, when I watched the film again for the first time in ages just now I still cried at that scene, so gut-wrenching it is! If I had one real complaint with the DVD, it's a little niggle that I feel could have been addressed without being much more expensive. Why have four different languages available (English, German, Italian and Spanish), but only have subtitles in Italian? It doesn't make sense!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Captures the fullness of Schultz's emotional vision for the world he created..., 6 Jun 2006
Like many people born in the 1960s, Peanuts was a big part of my psychological landscape, and this feature, along with the Peanuts Christmas special, was one of the touch-stones of the era. If "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was the moment when Peanuts finally came alive on the screen (and somehow in the process bringing the 1950s to a close), "Snoopy Come Home" was proof that these characters also inhabited a very real emotional world, every bit as turbulent and bleak as the end of the 1960s would suggest.
And being very much of its time (1972), this is probably the most adult of all of the Peanuts features: the pacing and themes (grief, alienation, loneliness, and loss) are likely to be too intense for younger viewers, and while it has a few light moments, it is very much Peanuts as adult drama. This film must have been very daring in it's day, and probably could not be made today.
It remains a very good film, and the one which, in my opinion, best captures the fullness of Schultz's emotional vision for the world he created. The DVD has no extras, but the print and sound transfer is very clear and bright.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Snoopy's always allowed here!, 6 May 2008
I don't even remember seeing this one when I was growing up, but I used to have it on videotape for my oldest daughter. I recently got it on dvd and my youngest daughter was mesmerized (her first intro to Peanuts), my older daughter was thrilled to see it again, and even my husband stopped what he was doing and stood in the doorway for a bit before reluctantly sitting down to watch the rest.
It is done so well, and it's such a good movie!
It starts off with great scenes of Snoopy playing with the Peanuts gang (and Woodstock-- his first appearance anywhere). Snoopy surfing, helping Peppermint Patty build a grand sand castle, just enjoying life as only Snoopy does! But, then he finds himself excluded from the beach the next day as a "No Dogs Allowed" sign appears. And then it seems there are "No Dogs Allowed" signs just about everywhere. Charlie Brown gets angry at Snoopy and Snoopy is a bit unhappy. Just about this time, we meet Lila-- a sweet lonely little girl in a far away hospital. Remembering when Snoopy belonged to her, she writes Snoopy a letter.
When Snoopy receives the letter, he becomes all teary eyed and, with Woodstock, begins the journey to visit Lila.
Though Charlie Brown is sad to see Snoopy go, Snoopy must leave and he and Woodstock find the journey itself to be quite an adventure. And, once he finds Lila, Snoopy has a difficult decision to make. This one is a definite tear-jerker!
Vince Guaraldi's music is absent here-- all the songs are written by Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman. As I remember finding fault in this while watching it on videotape years ago, I was completely happy with the music now. Vince Guaraldi's jazzy piano might be more fun, but the Sherman tunes were truly delightful.
Snoopy Come Home is one of the best Peanuts movies-- completely charming from beginning to end!
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