So as part of my evening yesterday and today I watched The Peanuts Movie, starring Snoopy and Charlie Brown. The original comics, drawn by Charles M. Schulz ran from 1950-2000. 50 years of Snoopy! Now we have reruns of the comic in 75 countries and 21 languages!

I love snoopy, I had snoopy toys as a child like barbies but snoopy in every outfit for every occasion. My aunt used to collect the comic strips and stick them in old exercise books. Now I have a snoopy game on my phone.

The movie is classic comic strip but brought into the 21st century with animations, though still true to the characters original comic characteristics and personalities. One of my favourite bits is actually the very start of the movie where Shroeder plays the 20th Century Fox tune on his piano. Charlie Brown is joined by his loyal beagle sidekick Snoopy, bird Woodstock, and all his school friends in this movie that follows his move towards friendship with “the little red haired girl”.

This is a family friendly movie but you don’t have to be a child to enjoy it, you also don’t have to know anything about peanuts comics to watch it, it is a standalong. But you could say a gateway into serious love for such a cute and loveable comic strip. Every strip has a small life motto and an insight into the life of humans, a moral something to say and that is unique to peanuts I have never come across another comic that can share wisdom in 3-5 images.

10/10 to The Peanuts Movie, Charles Schulz would certainly approve.