Product: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Rating: 5.0
Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men
What more can one say about this perfect Christmas perennial? Quite often, growing up with annually televised programs can affect a person's critique of the show, with personal feelings becoming involved in the remembrances of the actual quality of the work. Not with this one baby! "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is quality going all the way, from the calm, cool opening with the Peanuts gang skating to Vince Guaraldi's inspired score, the amazing on-target commentaries regarding commercialism, through the incredibly relevant and moving moment when Linus tells Charlie Brown (and all of us) the true "meaning" of Christmas. It amazes me whenever I experience that scene over and over again and my reaction to it never changes. Could we ever imagine, in today's "politically correct", and so much more "enlightened" era, having a cartoon character reciting a religious passage in an animated holiday special.....and all without any kind of preaching or forcing it down ones throat? I'm surprised TV networks can even televise it without editing what might be "offensive" to certain members of the audience.God Bless Us Everyone indeed.Luigi ~ NYC