VividSimon Simply Perfect

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

attila mityok Airplane!, American Gigolo, Friday the 13th, The Elephant Man, The Shining, Caddyshack, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. A good year for film indeed :DThis is the 4th and last theatrically released movie based on Peanuts to date. As much as I loved the other 3 movies and how different each one were this is by FAR my #1 pick. I would rate this much higher than a 10 but nevertheless the message is clear :) What can I say; I LOVE Peanuts and I LOVE this movie! The title just shouts different and that is what I love about the two other Peanuts movies (Snoopy, Come Home!! and Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!!) Because it sounds so expressive and inviting. Bon Voyage Charlie Brown is not only my favourite Peanuts movie; it's one of my ALL-TIME favourite films!I guess the best place to start is the plot of the story. The opening starts in France at a local bar when a man (the Baron) with a cane comes out to his car and drives home to an old creepy looking château; we then see a girl in the château writing a letter. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus, Marcie and Peppermint Patty (my favourite Peanuts character) are chosen to go to France for two weeks as foreign exchange students representing their schools. Charlie receives the letter from the girl named Violette only to have no idea what it says. Marcie, having learnt a bit of French, reads the letter saying he has been invited to stay at a château called "home of the bad neighbour". This makes him uneasy of course. The gang rents a car that Snoopy drives (of course, he can do everything!) Marcie and PP stay with a boy named Pierre and Charlie, Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock go to the château but strangely they cannot go inside and have a suspicion they were not invited by the Baron. This sets the mood for confusion, and mystery, something very different for Peanuts. The artwork and backgrounds are subtle and peaceful to look at. And when the animation is good, it's REALLY good. Ed Bogus and Judy Munsen rock the soundtrack; one of my favourite scenes is when Judy Munsen sings the beautiful "I want to remember this" as the kids travel by train to Dover from Victoria Station in England, gazing upon the gorgeous landscapes and towns' only Europe has and Snoopy's interaction with an English cab driver is both funny and in my opinion, the best animated scene in the movie. The feel and atmosphere of the movie has a well-thought-out mixture of bright light hearted scenarios and dark haunting back drops of night, the Baron and the château. Peppermint Patty is her usual funny and boisterous self as she sleeps in class, gets answers wrong and also develops a crush on Pierre but hilariously never notices that Marcie and he are romantically involved. The music for the climax is strangely placed. Near the end of the movie the château is engulfed in flames with only Linus and Violette trapped inside and Snoopy is pulling an old fashioned fire hose across the river to the château and Woodstock is sprayed out and plays a violin while all this is going on! It's funny but strangely placed.In closing, Bon Voyage Charlie Brown is Peanuts animation at its best; with the exceptions of "She's A Good Skate, Charlie Brown," and the sequel to Bon Voyage "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown." With American animated movies coming out today, with all its CGI, fast pace, celebrity casted, popular music and rhetoric writing, this film is a real breath of fresh air and an animation treasure. I picture watching this in theatres must be like walking in a luscious meadow during a cool spring evening. A delightfully soothing motion picture Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez were best at, from a time when pacing was appreciated.

Atreyu_II This is the 4th of 4 Peanuts specials and is precisely the coolest and best of them. As a great Peanuts fan, I must say that this is Peanuts at their best! Together with "Snoopy Come Home" and "Race for your life, Charlie Brown", this is a true Peanuts classic. I cross my fingers so that this film's petition for a DVD release works out because this movie deserves! "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and don't come back!)" isn't just another Peanuts stuff. This one takes the Peanuts gang (Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Snoopy and Woodstock) to the travel of their lives: they go to England and France as foreign exchange students. At the same time, they live the adventure of their lives in France.The Peanuts gang first arrive to London and travel a bit in that city (including in a London bus with 2 floors and in a London Cab). After London, they go to France in a hovercraft and, before going to their student missions, they travel around France with the loyal company of their rental car, an old Citroen 2CV (the historical "deux chevaux", one of my all time favorite cars), leading to many hilarious moments and together they live many adventures, some of them extremely comical. By the way, it must be really cool to travel in a hovercraft. It's an interesting and different type of boat and I know that thanks to this movie.This Peanuts classics has a dark atmosphere carried with suspense, which is quite notorious in many ways. The Château du Mal Voisin (which means "Château of the Bad Neighbor") gives the feeling of being a spooky and dangerous place, especially at night, combined with the rain, lightning, the mysterious feeling about it, the background music and the Baron himself. The Baron is only shown as a shadowy figure, which accents that creepy feeling, combined with his threats and the way he's described by Pierre (who is a cool chap). The kind Violette is so different from her uncle Baron.Ah yes, the "Fire at the Château" sequence has strong suspense. Darkness and suspense are unusual on Peanuts shorts or movies, but that's one of the things that makes the difference in this one.The dark atmosphere is brilliant and the artwork here is spectacular. Everything is so well designed, painted and perfect, which isn't very common on Peanuts. This movie has such a great combination of light humor, suspense and darkness which, together with the fact that it takes place in England and France, makes it a unique and distinguish Peanuts classic, as well as a favorite for many.This great movie is also very humorous because comic gags are a strong point. Peanuts are usually funny, but this movie is funnier than usual on Peanuts. For example, the whole tennis sequence is simply hilarious. Other funny gags are, for example, the entire loaf of bread sequence; the car's wipers sequence; Snoopy saying "words" to a taxi-driver who speaks with a cockney British accent on his "typically Snoopy" language; both sequences of the cars's crash; Snoopy drinking root beer; whenever Woodstock gets grumpy; Linus getting furious when Charlie Brown falls asleep; Charlie Brown embarrassing Linus because of the passport; the noise of the car's dodgy transmission; and much, much more...The entire soundtrack is amazing as well, including a slower version of James Bond's theme and the relaxing song "I want to remember this". The lines are all excellent too, as much as the actors's voice talents.Adventure, comedy, darkness, suspense, classic humor, great characters, wonderful animation, amazing artwork, unforgettable moments, fabulous music... it has everything one can wish in an animated classic movie! This one has also the coolest ending credits ever. No other movie (before or after this) has such imaginative and creative ending credits like this.It's a nostalgic movie that brings wonderful memories from childhood. The whole movie is awesome. I wouldn't change anything about it in any way. There's nothing wrong about it. I could even ask how can anyone not love this movie. I'm not afraid to say and I even dare to say that this and the early mentioned 3 Peanuts classics leave absolutely nothing to be desired comparing to the finest Disney classics. More than that, they are even superior to many Disney classics.This should definitely be on Top 250.

Doug Galecawitz Charlie Brown, he was born to lose. This is the best peanuts gang movie. I loved it as a kid and I love it now. Am I the only one who notices that Snoopy flicks people off a lot in this. And why is the dog driving anyways?

Janus-2 This movie is one of the top "Peanuts" movies I have seen. In this movie, Charles Brown is going to Europe as an exchange student to represent his school. Out of five stars, this movie gets four.