Featuring Snoopy reading the Wall Street Journal, playing at Wimbledon & driving a Citroen 2CV.
As my Internet has been down more often than blu-ray.com, it was time for me to dip back into something viewed last week, Thursday specifically. I still have a good amount of physical media and players for my entertainment-that will have to be used the next few days. Of course plenty of the media I have in person has been viewed by me before and doesn't need a new review but this film is different. It was seen by me more than once before... the last time had to be 30 years ago, if not longer.
Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty and Marcie (oh, and naturally Snoopy & Woodstock also tag along) head on over to France as part of a foreign exchange program; how lucky for Chuck then that he receives a mysterious letter inviting him to a chateau over there. That actually results in some intrigue and at the end, peril. It had the amount of laughs & charm you'd expect from the Peanuts franchise and as an adult, I can laugh at such things as the 2CV-between this and For Your Eyes Only, the car is presented as a piece of crap... which at least is impossible to break down-the late 70's music that served as the soundtrack, and a wartime spoof where Snoopy cosplays as an American GI who drinks (root) beer at a bar reminiscing over a presumed French bitch... and I do mean that in the most literal sense. Turns out, IRL Charles Schulz served in World War II Europe and a few years before this came out, he returned and some of the things he saw and remembered were included.
Even if some jokes are perhaps hammered home too often, Bon Voyage served both as nice nostalgia and a pleasant way to spend 75 minutes.
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