It's the night of Peppermint Patty’s New Year’s Eve bash, but Charlie Brown has to write a book report about War and Peace. Hoping to join the fun for a special dance with the Little Red-Haired Girl, he tries desperately to finish in time.
Bill Melendez, Sam Jaimes
Director
Chad Allen
Charlie Brown (voice)
Kristie Baker
Peppermint Patty (voice)
Jeremy Miller
Linus van Pelt (voice)
Melissa Guzzi
Lucy van Pelt (voice)
Aron Mandelbaum
Schroeder (voice)
Jason Mendelson
Marcie (voice)
Elizabeth Lyn Fraser
Sally Brown (voice)
Bill Melendez
Snoopy / Woodstock (voice) (uncredited)
‘Better Than Chocolate’ isn’t perfect, but it sure has charm! The characters are great. Some took longer to grow on me than others, but ultimately they’re all compelling! I appreciate how a select few help those around them to grow.
Shudder’s Host (not a particularly original title, I must say) attempts to bring the spooks to “the quarantine generation” by presenting us with a scary Zoom call during lockdown.
Although bogged down by a slow pace and moralistic intent, ‘Deadly Garage Sale’ (2022) makes the most of its silly and nonsensical premise.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
The movie is centered around the title character who goes on a Christmas adventure.
Disney has cleverly managed to dance around the misdeeds of their past by scraping by with an insincere action that does very little to incite any long-lasting positive changes.