 | | | | Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) |  | Directors: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Actors: Scott Beach, Bill Melendez, Arrin Skelley, Laura Planting, Casey Carlson
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (25 reviews)
Format: Animated, Color, Ntsc
Media: DVD
Running Time: 75 minutes
ASIN: B000X4O1YO
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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 Peanuts take a trip September 25, 2008
I would really love for the goofy studio who controls the rights to this film to once and for all release it on DVD like the fans have demanded!
Personally, I loved this movie. Very typical Peanuts adventure and quite well animated in my opinion. Obviously, this was Charles Schulz's "trip down memory lane" as his beloved characters journey to a small town in France as exchange students. Along their journey, they experience sites and sounds of WWII including some of the music from the Hit Parade of the time, as heard by Snoopy and Woodstock while they drown their sorrows in glasses of (root)beer served on tap at the local French "Cafe du Sports."
The theme music was also quite haunting and memorable. I used to own this movie in VHS until the tape got damaged. I'd love to be able to see it on DVD!
We need DVD versions of this classics. July 15, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is what its all about folks. Transfering old vhs copies into DVD format so we keep it alive. I'm pretty ashamed that they can't even manage to do this. Been, waiting for a few years now and wish to share this with my kids someday.
 This is a wagon movie May 3, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Why won't they put this movie on DVD? How many times can they double dip XXX with Vin Diesel, but we can't get Snoopy in France? I don't understand what is going on in the world!! This was a great cartoon and I wish I could watch it on DVD and restore my memories, because once you grow-up, the pain of being an adult and paying high gas prices is way too real!
Another Classic Movie February 28, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really like the part where Snoopy is dressed up as a one of the British and wacks Peppermint Patty on the head with a umbrella at the airport and also when Snoopy is getting drunk off of Root Bear. I cann't wait for the DVD to come out. Otherwise, I will have to order this one!!!
Super! The coolest of all Peanuts films! February 24, 2006
Followed by Race for your Life, Charlie Brown (1977), this heavily critisized, classic 1980 Peanuts full length adventure is probably the best of the lot. Perhaps some of the critizism is true, but still, the film is tons of fun. The story is endearing, memorable, the music is cool, the characters are classic and adorable and the feel is creepy, yet absolutely wonderful. This is darker than all previous Peanuts films, but not as depressing as A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) or Snoopy Come Home (1972).
The story begins when a little French girl named Violet sends Charlie Brown a letter inviting him to come visit her old chateau in the French countryside. Coincidentally, that's when both Charlie Brown and Linus are invited to be part of a student exchange program that will take them over to Europe, Snoopy and Woodstock come along as well. At another school nearby, Peppermint Patty and Marcie are also taking part in the same student exchange program, so the group of six travels together. Once there, Peppermint Patty and Marcie are welcomed in the home of a little farm boy named Pierre, while Linus and Charlie Brown are surprised to find that when they arrived at the Chateau of the Mal Voisin, there's nobody there to greet them and they soon enroll in a mystery in which some history of the Brown family will be revealed!
What made this film so much fun was the whole atmosphere of it, it wasn't at all like previous Peanuts films, this one was much gloomier and slower, but super fun. A lof of scenes are plain hilarious, such as a scene which has Peppermint Patty attend school at the French schoolhouse and Snoopy's visits to an old tavern. The whole journey to Europe is wonderful, I love every second of it, it brings me a lot of memories of when I first watched the film, the nicest part here being the soft and sweet song "I Want to Remember This." This film was quite creepy and gloomy, I thought, and it did break a lof of classic Peanuts themes such as adults actually speaking and Marcie's calling Charlie Brown "Chuck" instead of "Charles," not to mention Charlie Brown actually receiving a letter.
Both A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) and Snoopy Come Home (1972) have greenlit DVD releases coming up soon, so why aren't Race for your life, Charlie Brown (1977) and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and don't come back!) (1980) seeing a DVD edition soon as well?
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