Snoopy Come Home

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Snoopy Come Home

I give this movie a six because although it is a favorite, it obviously isn't a masterpiece, but the music is great and it's a must see if you are a Peanuts fan. I think I saw this movie for the first time when I was about 4 or 5. My slightly older sister and I were at my grandma's house. It starts out with the great "At the beach" number and my sister and I would get all excited, then, "NO dogs allowed!" would come shouting out of the TV and It would scare me. So the movie goes on and they go to the library and snoopy picks out this "funny bunnies" book and starts laughing. My sister and I still go crazy over that part. Then after Snoopy has run away, Charlie Brown does this monologue and sings a song. My sister who is 23 still gets teary eyed when she hears it. So when the local video rental place went out of business, we saw this long lost favorite and bought it immediately.

Lila's Tune, which is sung by Shelby Flint seems to get no credit even for it's existence. Thats a shame because it still haunts me twenty years after I first heard it. I wish a soundtrack was available on cd or cassette. I had to jump through hoops just to find out the name of the song, and then to find out who sang it. The show was fantastic even though sad. Sad is a lesson we tend to shield our children from, and when something sad happens in their real lives they don't know how to deal with it.

This movie had it all for me as a kid... laughs, sadness, and suspense. (Hey, when you're 6 years old, you don't know if there's really going to be a happy ending). I never forgot the scene with Charlie Brown singing mournfully after Snoopy leaves "for good." Even now I get goosebumps thinking about him standing next to Snoopy's empty doghouse, and laying in bed knowing his World War I Flying Ace isn't outside to protect him from the Red Baron. Probably the best Peanuts movie ever made.

When I was 7, I thought this movie was the greatest of all-time. Now I'm 34 and still think it's really, really cool. Who could resist the adventures of Snoopy? "Peanuts" managed to speak to me when I was a child and it continues to do so now that I'm an adult.

Snoopy, everybody's favorite pet beagle, goes off to visit an old friend from his past. Charlie Brown isn't the same person without him while he's away. He's distraught over his departure. We learn about Snoopy's origins and wonder whether he comes home to Charlie Brown or to his first owner. The film was made in the early seventies and is true Charles Schulz's vision.

my favorite peanuts cartoon with the best music ( me and you, two man crew) and Charlie Brown singing a melancholy tune about Snoopy being gone while putting his head against the wall. The "no dogs allowed" with the voice is great. One of the more sadder animations out there(especially for a Snoopy cartoon) but still very enjoyable. I last saw it on Disney channel many moons ago and wonder why it is not played more often on TV or cable.Great movie and recommended for fans of snoopy and the gang everywhere. watch it with your dog or remember past dogs

I was a 21 year old working as a projectionist in a neighborhood theater when this film was released and I had the opportunity to help get it up on the screen. This seemed like such a nice and enjoyable gem back then, with some scenes as breezy as a summer's day and others with a somewhat darker but thoughtful tone (themes of rejection and the sadness of separation). It was an early " buddy movie" shown pointedly in the cross-country journey that Snoopy takes with Woodstock. Some scenes are reminiscent of a Hope and Crosby "road" picture. There is a delightful song sung by Shelby Flint in the film....she would later sing another in the first rate animated film, The Rescuers. I actually tracked down a couple of her albums as a result. I don't have children, but I still think this is a delightful film and I have my own personal video copy. Good for all ages.

I first read the book adaptation of this in 4th grade, when I was 9, about '76. I was crushed, especially by the scene at the farewell party for Snoopy, when Charlie Brown goes to the podium and tries to find the words to say goodbye to his dog, his friend. He cannot. I was choking up really bad, having had a collie for some years at that time, I could not fathom not having him around, so it hit home. Now when I think of it, I also enjoy the music, the trip the twosome-Snoopy and Woodstock, take, the 'No Dogs Allowed' running themes, the over all melancholy feeling that pervades the film. I think its the best of the Peanuts flix, and recommend it highly today too. *** outta ****