Trailer For Next Years 'Peanuts' Movie Released

Charlie Brown and the Paenuts Gang will get the animated CGI treatment next Christmas when the "Peanuts" movie is released.

The trailer remains true to the comic strip, as Snoopy's fantasy of being a World War I fighter pilot battling the Red Baron plays out, while Woodstock and friends decorate his dog house.

An online discussion of the trailer revolves around whether the movie will remain true to the comics existential tone, where the characters never get what they truly want, or will it be a "feel good" movie where Charlie Brown becomes a hero.

If it is going to follow the general plot of the famed 1965 Christmas Special, my only hope is that they include the dance sequence, where the Peanuts gang lay down some truly original dance moves.

As one commenter on MetaFilter explained:

It's not even something that needed to be explained; anyone who was born in the '70s and watched television specials could recognize, understand, and participate in the Peanuts Dance. And when you looked up and saw not one or two but several dozen kids doing the Nod, the Shrug, the Just The Feet Without Moving Your Legs Is Harder Than You'd Imagine, the Head-Back-And-Forth, the Just The Knees Is Almost As Hard as Just the Feet... it was a thing of beauty. There was a DJ who would do the dances pretty routinely and after a while he'd just decided, screw it, and he actually brought Vincent Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy", probably just to get it out of the way.

This is seriously one of the best dance sequences in TV history. And it goes on for like three minutes! Try seeing that on TV these days.