History WesternAnimation / ThePeanutsMovie

* CheatedAngle: Enforced by the animators in order to get every character to look just like how they are in the comic strip, from eyes shifting positions around faces to hairstyles changing dramatically depending on the camera angle.

* InformedAttractiveness: The Little Red-Haired Girl is said to be beautiful, but on merchandise and frames where her face can be seen, she's shown to have almost the same standard face most of the kids have, except with a smaller nose. This is one of the reasons Schulz preferred to have The Little Red-Haired Girl be TheFaceless in the comic in the first place.
** Lucy even gets to lampshade this in the Little Red-Haired Girl’s introductory scene, by pointing out she isn’t that pretty.

** Many, many shots are taken right out of the old specials.

** The emoji gag made many fans uneasy, fearing the movie would be packed with jokes about pop culture and social media that would date it in an instant. The actual film preserves the Peanuts' timeless feel and makes no attempt to awkwardly shoehorn in references to contemporary culture.

* PaintedCGI: In trying to translate the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' characters into CG, the filmmakers found that fully three-dimensional models couldn't match the look of Schultz's drawings exactly, so they settled for using models with {{Cheated Angle}}s. They also animated the figures on twos to match the animation of the classic TV specials, along with hand-drawn effects and linework on the models.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Snoopy throwing his typewriter at Lucy.

* AdaptedOut: Except for one of the comic strip panels shown during the credits scroll, Linus and Lucy's little brother Rerun is entirely absent from the movie, despite Rerun being a prominent character in the last couple decades of the strip's run, and even the lead in one TV special, along with several shorts. [[{{Expy}} Rerun is substituted]] by the unnamed little boy, credited simply as "Little Kid" in the end credits, who Charlie Brown encounters in the nurse's office and later teaches to fly a kite (''successfully''!).

''The Peanuts Movie'' is a 2015 CGI animated feature film produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and Creator/BlueSkyStudios, based on [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} the popular comic strip by Charles M. Schulz]]. It is the fifth big-screen adaptation of the strip, and the first since ''WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown'' in 1980.

** One of the many things tossed out of Snoopy's doghouse is Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", a reference to the oft-mentioned but never-shown Van Gogh {{painting|s}} that Snoopy owns.

** One of the many things tossed out of Snoopy's doghouse is Creator/VincentVaGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", a reference to the oft-mentioned but never-shown Van Gogh {{painting|s}} that Snoopy owns.

** One of the many things tossed out of Snoopy's doghouse is Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night", a reference to the oft-mentioned but never-shown Van Gogh painting that Snoopy owns.

** If you go frame-by-frame, you can see the Little Red-Haired Girl's face in some early scenes, though never for more than a second or two at a time. If you're paying attention, you can actually get a clear look at her in the dance scene when the sprinkler system goes off. Can't find her? [[spoiler:In the wide crowd shot, when Lucy shouts ":et's get out of here!", she's on the far right of the frame.]] This is because the directors felt hiding her face in these scenes would draw ''more'' attention to it.

'''Lucy:''' Of course, when I say "you", you know I don't mean you personally.

** If you go frame-by-frame, you can see the Little Red-Haired Girl's face in some early scenes, though never for more than a second or two at a time. If you're paying attention, you can actually get a clear look at her in the dance scene when the sprinkler system goes off. Can't find her? [[spoiler:In the wide crowd shot, when Lucy shouts "let's get out of here!", she's on the far right of the frame.]] This is because the directors felt hiding her face in these scenes would draw ''more'' attention to it.

* GaleForceSound: When Linus stands up to ask whether the standardised test he and his classmates are about to take truly reflects their educational experience, Miss Othmar's reply (which, from the intonation of the "Wah-wah" sounds, is likely "''Sit down, Linus!''") is so loud it blows his hair back.

* TakeThatCritics: Lucy takes a look at Snoopy's story, and dismisses it immediately. A flying dog? That's nonsense! Snoopy throws the typewriter at her head.

Previews: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c Teaser 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSjtzBhnIU Teaser 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XmV3zGifOE Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7chqzwKlo Trailer 2]].

Previews: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XmV3zGifOE Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7chqzwKlo Trailer 2]].

** Shermy appearing in the talent show as a mime is very fitting. Long-time Peanuts fans will recall that despite being a major character in the strip's early days, Shermy over time became a seldom-seen, deliberately-bland background character who rarely spoke.** At one point Charlie Brown accidentally smudges his red pajamas with ink, making a zig-zag pattern like his yellow shirt -- referencing the red coloring it sometimes has in Sunday strips and merchandise.

** Shermy appearing in the talent show as a mime is very fitting. Long-time Peanuts fans will recall that despite being a major character in the strip's early days, Shermy over time became a seldom-seen, deliberately-bland background character who rarely spoke.
** At one point Charlie Brown accidentally smudges his red pajamas with ink, making a zig-zag pattern like his yellow shirt -- referencing the red coloring it sometimes has in Sunday strips and merchandise.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version uses a different ending theme called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUvl2b0ZY4 "A Song for You"]] by Ayaka.

Three of Schulz's grandchildren produced it, and one of them is a co-writer. Paul Feig (''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'') also served as a producer. Schulz's estate has 100% overseen and approved everything having to do with the movie, and an unconventional style of CGI has been developed to preserve his design work and Bill Melendez's animation style.

The film received highly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, and was a box office success, grossing $246 million worldwide against its $99 million budget.

** The emoji gag made many fans uneasy, fearing the movie would be packed with jokes about pop culture and social media that would date it in an instant. The actual film preserves the Peanuts' timeless feel and makes no attempt to awkwardly [[WereStillRelevantDammit shoehorn in references to contemporary culture]].[[invoked]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The trailer released in June 2015 ''alone'' features nearly every major character used in the strip during the 1960s and 1970s. Notably, because the series has such a huge cast of characters, the film does not introduce any new ones (thus inverting the CanonForeigner trope).

* TruerToTheText: Unlike the previous four ''Peanuts'' films, which were more plot-driven, this film takes a SliceOfLife approach and exclusively focuses on the strip's long-standing elements. Schulz himself went on record as saying that he felt there were twelve things that were integral to the world of the comic strip: the character of Snoopy, his doghouse, his fights with the Red Baron, Woodstock and his friendship with Snoopy, Charlie Brown's baseball team, the football gags, the kite-eating tree, Linus' blanket, Lucy's psychiatry booth, Schroeder's piano, the Great Pumpkin, and the Little Red-Haired Girl and Charlie Brown's hopeless crush on her. All twelve of these are part of the film at some point (though some only very briefly -- the Great Pumpkin is only mentioned in a throwaway line as Linus says he hopes the new kid has an open mind about the subject). Credit for this is often given to the fact that Schulz's family were directly involved in the production.

* TruerToTheText: When it could have easily been [[AdaptationDecay the opposite]]. Credit for this is often given to the fact that Schulz's family were directly involved in the production. As an example of the film's faithfulness to the source material, Schulz himself went on record as saying that he felt there were twelve things that were integral to the world of the comic strip: the character of Snoopy, his doghouse, his fights with the Red Baron, Woodstock and his friendship with Snoopy, Charlie Brown's baseball team, the football gags, the kite-eating tree, Linus' blanket, Lucy's psychiatry booth, Schroeder's piano, the Great Pumpkin, and the Little Red-Haired Girl and Charlie Brown's hopeless crush on her. All twelve of these are part of the film at some point (though some only very briefly -- the Great Pumpkin is only mentioned in a throwaway line as Linus says he hopes the new kid has an open mind about the subject).

** The moment when Charlie Brown picks up the Little Red-Haired Girl's pencil and notices it has teeth marks is derived from 2002's ''A Charlie Brown Valentine'', with Charlie Brown successfully hanging on to it in the movie, as compared to ''A Charlie Brown Valentine'', where Lucy snatches the pencil away and ruins his chances to talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl.

** Certain minor details are tweaked to get all the major cast members in the same classroom. Linus has been aged up to be Charlie Brown and Lucy's age, for one.[[labelnote:†]] [[EpilepticTrees Or he could have skipped a grade, as Charles Schulz did in real life]]; the movie never explains it.[[/labelnote]] Peppermint Patty, Franklin, and Marcie no longer live "across town" and now attend the same elementary school as the other characters.

* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: Peppermint Patty mentions that Marcie loves ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' and ''Literature/WarAndPeace''[[note]]Or as Peppermint Patty calls them, [[{{Malaproper}} "Catcher with a Pie"]] and [[{{Mondegreen}} "Leo's Toy Store"]][[/note]]. Charlie Brown then uses ''War and Peace'' for a book report.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Charlie Brown goes to the library in order to check out ''[[Creator/LeoTolstoy Leo's Toy Store]]'' by [[Literature/WarAndPeace Warren Peace]]. PlayedWith in that Peppermint Patty was the one who misheard the title from Marcie while Charlie Brown heard Patty's mangled version loud and clear.

* StockFootage: The original version of "Christmas Time is Here" is also used in one scene.

* StockFootage:
** Snoopy and Woodstock are once again played by Bill Melendez (who died in 2008) courtesy of archival audio.
** The original version of "Christmas Time is Here" is also used in one scene.