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Amazing

I´ts a very sick and twisted vision for charlie brown, but I think it´s really awesome I would like to see more.

The animation was flawless by the way it was almost like watching the original cartoon, except for the demonic hallucinations.

Keep up the good work

dream a little dream of me

louis armstrong sings it
and i loved this film. anyone who has read the peanuts comics would picture that lucy deserved what she got.
charlie brown does what he should have done a while back. would have been better if the artist had added in a part about lucy removing the football as charlie went to kick it (like in the memory sequence) she definately deserved to be punished for that. lol
smooth animation, loved the story, didnt get the eye thing. but still loved it

The music is great

amazing artistic work, but I loved the music! Can anyone tell me what the name of the song at the menu is? Addictive piano song!

"I accidenttily voted five."

This was a twisted thing to make.

Good but could have been great

[Warning, my review will contain spoilers]

Ok, this may be a bit of a harsh score but I honestly think this could have been a lot better (at least for me as a viewer).

First of all, you've created a beautifully animated piece. The characters all look perfect, as if you've ripped them straight out of a Charlie Brown cartoon. They also moved very fluidly and your backgrounds are also spot on in their imitation of the show/cartoon.

The music fit quite well into the flash itself. The hip hop beat fit well into this idea of Charlie Brown's growing madness and somehow it seems to go in hand in hand with the Brown household. The piano pieces also give off really calm feel and seem very much of the peanuts cartoon style. It's a cool juxtaposition to the theme of madness that we see growing through the piece. The thing that irked me was the cliché use of mad world. It's been done to death and didn't really fit in with the rest of the instrumental pieces.

The voice acting was good. You're obviously not going to get a perfect imitation of the characters but most of your voice actors got close enough to the original accents that I wasn't even thinking about this being a fan made video while I was watching it. The only one that was slightly off was Charlie Brown himself. A couple of times I heard a sort of lisp on Charlie Brown's voice and it threw me off a bit.

Now my real gripe with the animation was the plot. I think you went the slightly easier, but less rewarding route in setting up the whole "Beelzebub" story angle. For example, the best scene in the whole thing was with Schroeder and Lucy. This was because of the interaction between the two characters really fantastic and it really hit home the relationship those two characters had. It made me look back at the real peanuts comics/movies and have a real think about the relationship. It works so well because it follows the real peanuts so closely but just goes that one step further, saying the stuff that has never been said.

I think you could have done this Charlie Brown and Lucy's relationship. Instead you went with the crazy hallucinations and talking to the devil track. I was really disappointed when the animation took that turn. I just feel you could have done much better. Instead of making a big impact on me like the schroeder/lucy scene due to how closely it followed the source material, instead it broke my connection to the whole story a bit. It's just that bit far removed, bit far fetched, and at least in my eyes, that bit tacky.

With that said, I still enjoyed the animation but instead of leaving a huge impact the whole demon thing broke my connection. I came away thinking about how amazingly well animated it was instead of thinking how amazing it was as a whole.