A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) – Rewatch

The plot is well known in this holiday classic: Charlie Brown is fed up with the materialism he finds all around him at Christmas time and agrees to direct the school’s pageant. The animation is classic and colorful. The emotions are relatable as everyone probably feels a bit like Charlie Brown each year at Christmas time. I love the unadulterated joy the entire group possesses when they’d rather dance than rehearse and the beautiful little tree in both its original and spruced up forms. I probably take a bit off of my rating for Linus’s Bible quoting in the middle. It seems to only serve as unnecessary religiosity while neither answering Charlie Brown’s question nor resolving his ennui.