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Summary: Great for Christmas Every year!!!!!
Review: I'm almost 14 years old and this has to be one of my favorite charlie brown videos I have it on video and I watch every year it always comes on tv at Christmas time on cbs and I enjoy this film as much as I enjoy all the other peanut holiday videos like "It's the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" "Charlie Brown thanksgiving"" Be My Valentine Charlie Brown" It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown" I have those 4 on video I just love this one as much as I love all the peanut holiday videos get this for your family and buy the these other 4 too I guarantee it will make your day shine bright for the rest of your life.
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Summary: Best ever
Review: This is the best popular culture segment regarding the most important holiday in human history. The reason is that it deals with the point of Christmas: Christ.
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Summary: The best Christmas Cartoon ever
Review: I am 31 years old now and I have been watching the charlie brown christmas special since I was little and today I watch it with my 3 daughters. It just really gets me in the mood for christmas. I can't even imagine a christmas without it. I usually watch it on TV but this year I plan on buying the holiday set because it is a classic and I want to be able to watch it every year!
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Summary: LOL, I Memorized this Movie!!
Review: This is the second-best christmas special EVER made, totally a classic, and I memorized it when I was three. I still have it memorized and when I'm bored in the middle of the night I recite it from beginning to end. Best sequence: "I can't memorize these lines... give me one good reason why I should memorize these lines."
"I'll give you five good reasons... one... two... three... four... five."
"Those are good reasons... not only Christmas getting too commercial, it's getting TOO dangerous!"
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Summary: Truly an evergreen...
Review: ...and I'm not talking about Charlie Brown's tree.
I really can't remember when I first saw this special. Couldn't have been the debut year of 1965, as in those pre-cable days, our antenna couldn't pull in a CBS station. More likely would've been circa 1971 or 1972, long enough for this to have been firmly established as a holiday staple.
At that age, eleven or twelve, I would've been well past the age where I might've sat in toddler awe at some of my favorite comic strip characters coming to life. And celebrating my favorite holiday, no less.
Despite my "advanced" age, I still thoroughly enjoyed the show, even if my ability to appreciate it was substantially limited to Snoopy's antics and Schroeder's exasperation in finding a version of "Jingle Bells" suitable to the reigning fussbudget, Lucy Van Pelt.
As my age truly advances, it becomes even more enjoyable to find more layers to the cartoon. Much as the Warner Brothers classic cartoons were not truly written for children, but for the writers' own amusement, a more adult view of Charles Schulz's work reveals that this really isn't kiddie fodder.
In a way, Vince Guaraldi's score illustrates the point perfectly. Out in front is the "Linus and Lucy" theme, a bouncy tune to which any age can be-bop along. Contrast that with "Christmastime Is Here"; the lyrics are cheerful, joyful, perfectly descriptive of a child's delight at the season's arrival.
And yet, the tune belies the sentiment. It is nearly hopeful, yet somber, knowing it's missing something but not sure what that might be. Just like Charlie Brown's dilemma throughout everyone else's festivities.
The only real disappointment on this disc would be the bonus feature "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown", which looks more like a series of largely unrelated continuity-independent vignettes from the 1980's Saturday morning "Charlie Brown and Snoopy", slapped together to form the illusion of a featurette, than a coherent story deserving of co-starring with the original.
Nonetheless, having the original on DVD alone is worth the investment. Definitely a must-have.
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Summary: The TRUE Meaning of Christmas...
Review: There is only one word that can describe this video... CLASSIC. Made in 1965, this movie has withstood the test of time and still remains one of the best Christmas programs of all time. It put Peanuts and Vince Guaraldi on the map. The Vince Guaraldi Trio composed the soundtrack to this film which, in my opinion, is the best Christmas album ever. Not only is it entertaining, it has a simple, but important message: Love and togetherness is the true meaning of Christmas, not presents, decorations, and fancy Christmas productions. If you celebrate the feeling of Christmas, then you don't need all that superficial stuff. Charles Shultz was a genius in his own way. He found a way to deliver important (sometimes grown-up) ideas to kids so they can understand them better. Since it only airs once a year, this video is essential to your movie collection. The soundtrack is DEFINATELY an essential to your CD collection. I love to put up the decorations and tree to the music. It makes for a very sentimental holiday. The only downside to the video is that it is only 30 minutes long. But it doesnt take away from its message. A GREAT Christmas masterpiece.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This Charlie Brown movie is the best, most masterful work ever made by the late great artist. This movie is part of the Christmas tradition - no less than the apple cider, the carols, and the tree - and truely captures the sentiment of Christmas.
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Summary: Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead--But He Did Get A Nice Tree
Review: 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?!?"
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Summary: the TRUE "true meaning of Christmas"
Review: A lot of people think the "spirit of the season" or the "true meaning of Christmas" is that people should be generous and charitable. Although people should remember the less fortunate at all times of the year, including Christmas, the true reason for this Christian holiday is to remember the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Linus recites the Christmas story from the Bible, explaining to Charlie Brown that the birth of Christ is what Christmas is all about. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of the only cartoon Christmas specials that I know actually discusses the TRUE "true meaning of Christmas." I enjoyed watching this cartoon as a child and I'm sure my own daughter will enjoy it, too.
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Summary: the best ever produced by the television industrial complex
Review: i've watched this show every Christmas for nearly 40 years. at the scene where Linus takes the stage and quotes from Luke, it never fails. i always cry.
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