Peanuts Movie: 4 Reasons It Could Be Good (And 5 It Could Be Terrible)

5. 3D

Oh, there is no way to describe how much my heart sank when these two letters appeared in the trailer. The knee-jerk reaction to 3D is often motivated by a gut feeling: "Peanuts in 3D??? This is WRONG!" The thing that makes the use of 3D so frustrating in a Peanuts film is how it undermines the tone to a certain extent- much in the way that using car advertisements to advertise The Lorax did. Many of the classic comics and cartoons were innocent yet firm stances against this kind of marketing greed - does anyone remember how a Charlie Brown Christmas was a 20 minute anti-commercialism story? 3D had been done well in the past, and some would argue that it even works better in animated films than live action ones. However, its foundations are undeniable - it is a gimmick, designed to reassure studio executives who don't believe they will make enough of a profit margin on such a dated source material. No matter how hard the writers try, they cannot possibly distract from the fact that Peanuts and 3D just don't gel.