Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

C'mon manm Apple Morality TV (TM) now is producing Peanuts, a comic institution that has never been anything like the wide stance plasticity of the Apple sterile industrial process. That process works well enough for shiny tech objects, not as well as it once did, but is just an unabiding process for comic creativity like this. And how tortured and conflicted is the Schulz now at the helm, with irreplaceable Charles now long gone....he has given the parts over to Apple and yes it is Peanuts and Charlie Brown...or is it? I sense a slight whiff, under the covers so to speak, that every film project produced by Apple implicitly carries the Apple Defect and so something precious is lost when that happens, and they are so clueless about it makes it worse. Nothing Apple TV for me, thanks, not ever.

This is a safe and fun bet for the family any night of the week. Great songs! Very catchy and, at times, moving. Classic characters with slightly modern animation style to connect with today. The plot was a little simple for me, but worked and was straightforward. No unnecessary messaging. The dialogue felt, at times, like filler between songs. But I suppose that's the point of a musical. Personally, I think one less song with a little more character development would have elevated the whole thing. All that said, my kids loved it and we will surely watch again. It knew its primary audience and gave them a great addition to the Charlie Brown legacy.

Although there is definitely much worse you can experience out there, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical is not a good special. The story is generic, heavily Deus ex Mancha, and is so rushed to the point where it's impossible to know what's going on. The characters are bland and generic, and the songs are basically filler, and not in a good way.

That said, the only good part is the fantastic animation. So at least the special has SOMETHING to offer.

Overall, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical is not at all a good way to celebrate Peanut's 75th anniversary. It's really disappointing that THIS is how we are supposed to celebrate.

Anyways, time for the sub categories!

Story 3/10

Animation 10/10

Characters 3/10

Songs 4/10

Final Rating 4/10, or a 8/30.

Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (2025) is a Peanuts special on Apple TV with our favorite Peanuts characters doing a musical at summer camp and it was pretty good.

Positives for Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (2025): It was fun to be spending time with these characters from my childhood while they're at summer camp. I will give credit to the voice actors who did the musical numbers as they were really good. You still get the fun shenanigans from the characters that made us love them in the first place. And finally, the movie is short and it gets to the point in an effective way possible.

Negatives for Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (2025): I wasn't too big on seeing the Peanuts doing a musical as it feels out of place from them to do. It honestly feels like the people who made this movie wanted to trying something different with the characters which I can respect, but it didn't fully work out for me.

Overall, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (2025) is good Peanuts movies on Apple TV that will mostly likely please fans of these characters even if it is one of the weaker entries in the Peanuts franchise.

Could have been good but the singing voices and spoken voices are so far off in volume that it is hard to watch. Also the voice casting for Charlie Brown is way off. Sounds too old and not like Charle Brown.

I have a 5.1 channel audio system. The speaking vocals came out of the center channel and were loud and clear. The singing voices came out of the left and right channels only and sounded like they are in the background . So it looks like a sound mixing issue. On another note, Charlie Browns voice was not a good match to his past voices.