lunes, 9 de noviembre de 2015

The Peanuts Movie....Charlie Brown and Snoopy are back!

Being a kid is never easy, less if you have to deal with a bunch of friends and school that turns life into a living hell full of adventures and dreams. For all those who grew up back in the 60's, 70's and 80's, Charlie Brown was huge. One of the most popular cartoons of that time. Based on very simple characters created for kids telling their own struggles while growing up, in an old fashion way that turned any actual cartoons into a very different category where bad words and getting naughty is allowed. But back in time where imagination was key and there was room for simple jokes and a very innocent sense of humor this kind of characters represents not only an era but a generation that use to play outside and believe in flying kites, play hide and seek and still had a crush on your class mates.

Even more popular than the main and human characters, became his little narcissistic dog Snoopy, and his little yellow bird that asides of all these kids adventures they create their own based on their imagination of a world where his dog house can fly and can turn it into an aircraft fighting battles work war style. All this fantasies aloud a whole generation to grow up learning about the fact that you can dream ad imagine the best for you and it might happen. Things can be better if you fight for them and there's always room for improve yourself and prove others you might be a misfit but also a hero and save the day. So where all these dreams and old fashion behaviors went? Why now we are so addicted and attracted to violence and straight forward jokes that just make fun of themselves or others? Since when been stupid and irreverent became cool and acceptable?

The story of Charlie Brown relates on every kids dream to be a hero. He's the kind of guy that will get always in trouble trying to the right thing. Will be judge by others that see him as a threat and will be left on his own while trying to do things in a different way. Anyone can relate to that. Not only as kids, because we keep growing up every day and we face the fact that we need to socialize and be surrounded by others, will find friends and enemies, romance and hate. But is all part of becoming who we are and defining what really are, which doesn't mean is going to be pleasant all time. We suffer and struggle sometimes more than the we laugh and enjoy but if we are able to see and do the right behind it, we might learn a lesson or two and eventually everybody will notice it and we will find allies, or life partners.

"The peanuts movie" (2015), is the first motion picture for all this beloved characters that face a new generation used to very different things and humor but they will bring back their classy style and funny way to see things. The story as always is center on Charlie Brown, an average kid living on the suburbs surrounded by a group of friends and classmates that always look up for him to go out and play. But this time he has a crush on his new classmate: a red hair girl that everybody knows little about and has everybody wondering, specially when she moves across his street, so he will need to find courage to talk to her, so he will get in any kind of situation t get her attention while getting him and others in trouble. While in the mean time, his little with and black dog tries to fight and win a combat agains his enemy the red baron, and his lady dog in trouble, aways helped by his little yellow friends.

While watching this simple drawings coming to life via 3D animation and facing new generations where cellphones are aloud for kids, video games rule over sports games outdoors, it's hard to imagine what their future will be in this new era and if they will find room among their generation that might forgot them o find them too old fashion for now but as more as you keep watching them, the more they start growing on you and help but wonder where this kid we all have inside has been, maybe hidden behind the new tablet or other sarcastic cartoons but once we get caught by their simple silliness of growing up, the more we realized how simple we used to be and how complicated we have turned in an era where things are supposed to facilitate our life but had turned us into other directions far from good values, manners and humor. Maybe is time to save the day getting us into a new adventure figuring that out and enjoy the simple plan of life and never forgetting we will always be a little kid deep inside.



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