Product: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Rating: 5.0
Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead--But He Did Get A Nice Tree
Alternately funny and heartbreaking, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS brings back the turbulent emotions of childhood holidays--and throws in a great batch of beautiful music to boot.I have to say that, while I've loved this show my whole life, as an adult I've begun to find it almost disturbing. Amidst all the Christmas cheer and pagentry, the exchange of cards and gifts, wanders poor Charlie Brown. He doesn't seem to have a friend in the world--even his dog Snoopy and his companion Linus ridicule him--and there are no adults, no parents seen anywhere. His dispair over the bent tree is so real, and so heartbreaking.Thank god for those one-liners, eh?"Whaddya mean, Beethoven wasn't so great?!?"