The Peanuts Movie
Directed by Steve Martino
TheoScope Rating
Worldview · content · moral framework
Plot
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole gang are back in a heartwarming story. A new girl with red hair moves in across the street, and Charlie Brown falls in love. Now he tries to impress the Little Red-Haired Girl to make her feel like he's a winner, but Charlie Brown just can't do anything right. At the same time, Snoopy is writing a love story about his continuing battles with The Red Baron. Then Charlie Brown has accomplished something never done before. He gets a perfect score on his standardized test, but there has been a mistake. Should he tell the truth and risk losing all of his newfound popularity? Can Charlie Brown get the girl to love him, or will he go back to being a nothing?
Discern Score Breakdown
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Audience Suitability
Kids
Under 10
Teens
10–17
Adults
18+
Family
Mixed ages
The Peanuts Movie is a rare modern animated film that fully honors the gentle, virtuous spirit of Charles Schulz's original strip. It carries no content concerns whatsoever and delivers a quietly powerful message about integrity, identity, and the value of being genuinely good rather than merely successful. Families of faith will find it a comfortable, affirming watch with natural conversation hooks around honesty and self-worth.
Pastoral Take
This is one of the safest and most genuinely virtuous animated films available for families with children of any age — you can sit down with kids as young as three or four without a single concern about content. For older children and tweens, the story of Charlie Brown wrestling with whether to keep false credit is worth pausing on afterward, because it gives you a natural, non-preachy opening to talk about integrity and what it means to be honest when honesty is costly. There is real redemptive warmth here, and parents who grew up with Peanuts will find this a faithful, wholesome continuation of values that Charles Schulz — himself a man of faith — embedded in the characters from the very beginning.
Discussion Points
- 1When Charlie Brown finds out the perfect test score was a mistake, he has to decide whether to keep the credit or tell the truth — even though telling the truth means losing his popularity. Has there ever been a moment where telling the truth cost you something? What do you think made it worth it — or hard — for Charlie Brown to do the right thing?
- 2The Little Red-Haired Girl tells Charlie Brown at the end that she noticed him because of his kindness, his honesty, and how he treated his little sister — not because of anything impressive he did. The Bible says God looks at the heart, not the outside (1 Samuel 16:7). Do you think people around us notice our character more than we realize? What kind of things do you want people to notice about you?
- 3Charlie Brown fails over and over again — his kite crashes, his dance moves go wrong, his plans fall apart — but he keeps trying and he never gives up caring about others. How do you think Snoopy's loyalty to Charlie Brown through all of it connects to what it means to be a real friend? Is there someone in your life who has stuck by you when things went wrong?
- 4Snoopy spends a lot of the movie imagining himself as a heroic World War I flying ace, going on grand adventures in his mind. Do you think there's something good about having a big imagination and dreaming about being brave and noble? What's the difference between dreaming about doing great things and actually becoming someone of good character?
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Cast
Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez, Hadley Belle Miller
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