Dreamworks and Others meets: The Peanuts Movie (2023)

***The Peanuts Movie*** (known in some countries as ***Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie***) is a 2015 American computer-animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip *Peanuts*, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the fifth full-length *Peanuts* film, and the first in 35 years. The film is directed by Steve Martino from a screenplay by Craig and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively), and Cornelius Uliano, and stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock. The film sees Charlie Brown trying to improve his odds with Eloise the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy writes a book where he is a World War I Flying Ace trying to save his fellow pilot and love interest Fifi from the Red Baron and his flying circus.

Development of the film began in 2006, six years after the death of Charles Schulz and the final release of the last *Peanuts* comic strip. Craig Schulz, the son of Charles, pitched a film idea to his son, Bryan Schulz. Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios announced development of a computer-animated film in October 2012, with Steve Martino directing, due to his faithfulness to the style of Dr. Seuss in the film, *Horton Hears a Who!* (2008), also produced by Blue Sky. Numerous elements from the comic strip were featured in the film, such as Charlie Brown's skating pond, his house, "the wall" and Lucy's psychiatrist booth, as well as the Snoopy and Woodstock voice tracks from Bill Melendez. The soundtrack was composed by Christophe Beck, with contributions by Meghan Trainor and David Benoit.

*The Peanuts Movie* premiered in New York City on November 1, 2015, and was released in the United States five days later. It grossed $246 million worldwide against a $99 million budget to become the 7th highest-grossing animated film of 2015. The film was met with generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the animation, voice acting, and faithfulness to the source material. It received nominations for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, and was the first Blue Sky Studios film to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to *Inside Out*.

## Cast

* Anna Kendrick as Candace Flynn
* Gabriel Giammaria as Chuck Flynn
* Tom McGrath as Skipper Van Pelt
* Chris Miller as Kowalski
* Marc Thompson as Tony Tuned
* Sandra Oh as Ming Lee
* Goran Visnjic as Soto
* Patrick Kramer as Collin Van Stomm and Chad Axler
* Diedrich Bader as Oscar and Wrap Darkmatter
* Alan Tudyk as Lenny and Wray Goldstein
* Richard White as Niki and Tolga Trunkov
* Al Pacino as Marcelo Fabian Pagano
* Lee Majdoub as Agent Stone
* Gaston Scardovi-Mounier as Virginia Limberti
* Dan Green as Kombo Hook
* Lisa Vischer as Isabella Garcia Shapiro and Princess Eloise
* Drake Lyle as Pinky and Toby Guttman
* Ted Jeanson as Stilts the Stork
* Jack Nicholson as Strut the Rooster/Pathen Thor
* Phil Vischer as Scaly the Lizard/David
* Ray Romano as Manny
* John Leguizamo as Sid
* Denis Leary as Diego
* Ben Stiller as Alex the Lion
* Stephen Tobolowsky as Bjorn Huph
* Matthew Labyorteaux as McGurk
* Jack Black as Po and Zeke
* Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu
* Miranda Cosgrove as Margo
* Dana Gaier as Edith
* Elsie Fisher as Agnes
* Mitchel Musso as Jeremy Johnson and Darren Leadfoot
* Mike Nawrocki as Phineas Flynn. She's a ex-brother.

### Meets

* Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown
* Hadley Belle Miller as Lucy
* Mariel Sheets as Sally
* Alex Garfin as Linus
* Francesca Angelucci Capaldi as Eloise the Little Red-Haired Girl and Frieda Rich. Describing the Little Red-Haired Girl, Capaldi says: "She's very nice and kind and has a great heart. She really does like Charlie Brown, but he has no idea, because he's shy and awkward."
* Venus Omega Schultheis as Peppermint Patty
* Rebecca Bloom as Marcie Carlin
* Marelik "Mar Mar" Walker as Franklin
* Noah Johnston as Schroeder
* Anastasia Bredikhina as Patty Swanson
* Madisyn Shipman as Violet Gray
* AJ Tecce as Pig-Pen
* Micah Revelli as Little Kid
* William "Alex" Wunsch as Shermy
* Kelly Hu as Miss Othmar/Miss Hirano, Candace's love interest. When Jeremy is so sad because Isabella's ex-boyfriend.
* Colleen Curtis as Eudora Rocker, Sally Silverstein and Eloise the Little Red-Haired Girl's mother.

## Candace Flynn's School

### Stacy's class room

* Stacy Hirano (teacher)
* Stan Marsh
* Kyle Broflovski
* Eric Cartman
* Kenny McCormick
* Charlie Brown
* Violet Gray
* Linus Van Pelt
* Peppermint Patty
* Marcie Carlin
* Patty Swanson
* Fredia Rich
* Franklin Armstrong
* Shermy
* Pig-Pen
* Lucy Van Pelt
* Princess Lou
* Schroeder
* Carly Sweetwater

### Candace Flynn's class room

* Candace Flynn (teacher)
* Sally Brown
* Django Brown
* Danny Bellwood
* Leo
* Tobio
* Ashley Spinelli
* Ashley Johnson
* Lewis Bennett
* Gretchen Bennett
* Sally Silverstein
* Judy Copperbottom
* Jake Stinglehopper
* Betty Preston

### Skipper Riley's class room

* Skipper Riley (teacher)
* Chloe
* Cindy Vortex
* Princess Eloise
* Margo
* Edith
* Agnes
* TJ Detwiller
* June
* Anna Bennett
* Ben Diane

## Dreamworks Villains Soldiers

* Ming Lee (leader)
* Soto (leader)
* Cad Spinner (henchman)
* Kamikazi and Constantine (henchmen)
* Marklin LeGume (henchmen)
* Collin Van Stomm (henchman)
* Oscar
* Lenny
* Zeke
* Jeffo
* Marcelo Fabian Pagano
* Virginia Limbert
* Tim Brick and McKible
* Arthur Carrot
* Beagle Boys
* Clayton's Men
* PX Purple Xenos Soldiers
* Hun Army
* NAPA Auto Parts Pirates
* Wargs