Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
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Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is a 1977 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman, and based on the Peanuts comic strip.
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[edit] Movie Plot
The Peanuts gang head off to camp to attend a river rafting race. When arriving, the gang meets a group of bullies and their cat who have won every year they have competed, though their success has always been through cheating, using a motor boat, and causing trouble to others. They would use any trick they could, whether destroying the boat, causing them to go off trail, or whatever else the group could think of to destroy the chance of anyone else to win the race.
In the movie, the main Peanuts characters are broken into three groups...the boys group, the girls group, and Snoopy and Woodstock. The boys group consists of Charlie Brown, Linus van Pelt, Schroeder, and Franklin. The girls group consisted of Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Lucy van Pelt, and Sally Brown.
Throughout the movie, Charlie Brown and the gang run into different obstacles, getting lost, stranded, and found again. The three groups continue to meet-up spontaneously at different points in the race and gang together to help each other when in need.
In the climax of the movie, all three collide and pile near the end. Even Snoopy sinks. Woodstock makes an improvised raft out of sticks and a leaf and wins the race.
At the end, the group vows revenge next year, but they are too afraid (even the cat) to do so after threatened by Snoopy as he beats the cat up quite well. Finally, the bus home leaves Charlie Brown behind a second time and he hitches a ride on Snoopy's motorcycle yet again.
[edit] Voice cast
- Duncan Watson - Charlie Brown
- Gail M. Davis - Sally Brown
- Liam Martin - Linus van Pelt
- Melanie Kohn - Lucy van Pelt
- Greg Felton - Schroeder & Franklin
- Bill Melendez - Snoopy & Woodstock
- James Ahrens - Marcie
- Stuart Brotman - Peppermint Patty
[edit] Trivia
- Movie Tagline: It's my new wilderness adventure! The entire "Peanuts" gang faces everything from bullies to rampaging rapids. "Good grief", will you have fun!
- An animation goof in the movie was in some shots of the bus, the front wheel is in front of the door. In other shots, it's behind the door.
- Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown was the 19th animated Peanuts film.
- The plot of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown was also written as a comic strip.
- This was the first video ever released for the SelectaVision videodisc system, first released by RCA in March 1981.
- This movie airs every once in a while on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. It used to air on Toon Disney.
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| Peanuts |
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| Characters |
| 555 95472 | Charlotte Braun | Charlie Brown | Sally Brown | Eudora | Franklin | Frieda | The Great Pumpkin | Kite-Eating Tree | Lila | Little Red-Haired Girl | Marcie | Miss Othmar | Patty | Peggy Jean | Peppermint Patty | José Peterson | Pig-Pen | Poochie | Roy | Schroeder | Shermy | Joe Shlabotnik | Snoopy | Snoopy's siblings | Thibault | Linus van Pelt | Lucy van Pelt | Rerun van Pelt | Violet | Woodstock |
| Films |
| Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!) | A Boy Named Charlie Brown (feature film) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | Snoopy, Come Home |
| Other Media |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas (album) | The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show | Linus and Lucy | Snoopy!!! The Musical | Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular | This is America, Charlie Brown | You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Peanuts in popular culture |Snoopy (computer game) |
| People |
| Vince Guaraldi | Donna Johnson | Bill Melendez | Charles M. Schulz |
