A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)

What a waste of my time!!!

Very well executed

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

All the Peanuts specials are worth seeing at least once, and a good deal of them are classics. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving to me is not as good as Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin as far as their Holiday specials go (and part of it is because Christmas and Halloween resonate a little more with me personally), but it is still a classic and one of the better Peanuts specials.A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving contains some very nicely done animation. It's bright and colourful with detailed backgrounds and charming and never ugly drawings. The music score is both jaunty and whimsical, and the songs are certainly incredibly catchy and have the right amount of emotional impact. Who can't help tingle with warmth during Linus and Lucy? As can be expected, A Charlie Brown Christmas is incredibly well written, the humour is warm and gentle ("what do you expect, a turkey card?") but also hilarious, it's educational which parents will really appreciate and it's filled with charm and heart too, like with the uplifting ending.The story, while simple, is equally funny, charming and heartfelt, while it doesn't have a central message as such like Christmas (for example) or Great Pumpkin's memorable absurdity the meaning of Thanksgiving is still very well put across without preaching. The occasional surreal touch- like Snoopy fighting with the deck chair, which also proved one of the funnier moments too- was welcome and didn't feel out of place.Here the characters are on top form and true to personalities, as a big fan of Snoopy he doesn't disappoint and Charlie and Linus are very likable. Peppermint Patty may not be for all tastes (coming from someone who knows people who find her voice irritating), but is to me a very colourful and entertaining character regardless. The voice acting is fine and well suited, with only the occasional choppiness of Marcie's voice work being a very occasional oddity.Overall, a great Thanksgiving special, and one of the better (and slightly overlooked) Peanuts Holiday specials. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Yes, here we actually had a Charlie Brown holiday where Linus was not a complete buzz kill. A change of pace from the norm for him, but his one is a simple tale of a couple of Charlie Brown's friends inviting themselves over for a Thanksgiving day feast when Charlie Brown is intending to go to his grandmother's house so he and his pal Linus and Snoopy cook up a feast all on their own. This grand meal including plenty of toast and popcorn. I like this one, to me it is the funniest of the three most well known ones...Halloween and Christmas being the other two. This one is also about the poor holiday stuck between Halloween and Christmas and to me seems to be almost a forgotten holiday these days as the retail stores push Halloween and Christmas and seem to ignore Thanksgiving all together. This one really shows the friend or family member that likes to kind of invite themselves to dinners and things like that this time of year as the culprit in this case is the ever exuberant Peppermint Patty. Marcie comes along too. I know lots of people that kind of tag along events such as these mainly because they do not want to cook themselves so I guess this one sort of hits home, and for me is the funniest and best of the holiday trio.

I have watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for many years and of all the Peanuts specials that I have watched and reviewed for this website, this is my favorite. The opening scene where Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown always cracks me up. If you watch it on DVD or tape it off the TV, play back the football scene in slow motion to see Charlie Brown in mid air.As for the rest of the cartoon, I thought Peppermint Patty was bossy and rude to Charlie Brown, inviting herself, Marcie and Franklin to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving dinner, monopolizing their phone conversations and even worse, complaining about the nontraditional cuisine. She was also flirtatious toward Charlie Brown. There were also outstanding sight gags involving Snoopy and Woodstock and the scene where they get the food ready for the feast that's set to "Linus and Lucy." It proves that cartoon scenes can work well without dialogue.I also liked the scene near the end when the kids are in the car and they sing "Over the River and Through the Woods" en route to the Brown's Grandma's condo for a real Thanksgiving dinner. Before or after you go over the river and through the woods for your holiday feast, watch this cartoon. You'll even learn about the holiday in Linus' Thanksgiving prayer.

Well, today is Thanksgiving and that means one thing to do, for certain that is. I must watch "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving." It has become a tradition for me for the last five years in a row and will continue for the rest of my life. You just can't go wrong with Good Old Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Watching this special brings the true meaning of Thanksgiving. As usually Snoopy steals the show. Thank you Mr. Charles Schulz for this and all the Peanuts holiday specials. Thanksgiving requires "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" year after year, it is simply tradition. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang on the holidays make the holidays more enjoyable.