2. No Input From Charles Schulz
Charles M. Schulz was a uniquely creative voice - he managed to create within Peanuts a world that was charming, innocent, and smart as a tack. His writing is what makes the comic strip and subsequent animated adaptations work as well as they do. Because of that factoid, the creators of this new film have a problem: he is dead. While hardly the first Peanuts subject written without Schultz's direct contribution, this is the first feature length one, a format seemingly in direct conflict with the style of Schulz's comics. There is no animated movie or comic writer who has quite managed to capture the sweetly innocent yet bafflingly intelligent and philosophical tone the Peanuts comic strip managed for so many years. This falls entirely on the writers heads: can they make new dialogue that sounds authentic to the characters and Schulz's voice? Only time will tell.