"He's a Bully, Charlie Brown" is one of the most recent Peanuts short films and this one features Rerun once again as one of the main characters. It is not even 10 years old and was the last Charlie Brown short film that the legendary Bill Melendez worked on. The story is not too great this time and also slightly predictable. A bully tricks little Rerun and takes all his marbles. Charly gets trained by Snoopy to become a great marbles player and gets them back. Well.. when it initially seems he lost, I expected Snoopy to step in and play against the bully, but Charly turned things round in the end. And there is a little story about jealousy in here too, so the girls get some screen time as well.
These Peanuts cartoons are around 50 years old now and there is actually a full feature film coming out this year and judging from early reviews, it seems to be good. But back to this short film: The only known voice actor in here is Taylor Lautner ("Twilight"), who speaks for the Bully. And I liked the goodness that these films have written all over them. One example would be Charlie wanting to give the marbles back to the bully and only keep Rerun's. As a whole, it's nice to see how they are still producing successful entertaining Peanuts short films after all these decades. It's not one of the best, but it's worth the watch. Thumbs up.
These Peanuts cartoons are around 50 years old now and there is actually a full feature film coming out this year and judging from early reviews, it seems to be good. But back to this short film: The only known voice actor in here is Taylor Lautner ("Twilight"), who speaks for the Bully. And I liked the goodness that these films have written all over them. One example would be Charlie wanting to give the marbles back to the bully and only keep Rerun's. As a whole, it's nice to see how they are still producing successful entertaining Peanuts short films after all these decades. It's not one of the best, but it's worth the watch. Thumbs up.