Charlie Brown hopes for the better but fails to the sounds of The Who in the new trailer for The Peanuts Movie.
The new trailer offers a good sense of the film’s story and animation, the latter of which uses CGI and drawn elements, and owing to the inspired creative choice of eliminating motion blur, feels almost like stop motion animation with the uniqueness of hand-drawn poses.
Blue Sky Studios’ new peek at the Steve Martino-directed The Peanuts Movie quickly illustrates the complexities of recreating Charles Schulz’s immortal comic strip for millennials. Gone is the bouncy jazz of Vince Guaraldi and Schroeder’s Beethoven — at least in Fox’s marketing — and in are warnings of “Teenage wasteland!” from The Who’s popular anthem, “Baba O’Riley,” as well as sprinklings of hip-hop and flamenco.
