'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Our review of 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' has just been posted. This special still holds up after all these years. As for this Blu-ray, the video and audio offer an improved presentation, but the extras are pretty darn thin. You'll have to decide if this short feature is worth the fairly high price on Blu-ray. For fans only, but we're guessing that's still quite a lot of you!

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/3489...lie_brown.html

[skinnyb37]

Hey, Drew, good review (as always). One of my all-time favorites (was a HUGE fan of Peanuts groing up). But I assume "Wes Anderson is a huge fan of the Menendez brothers" should be Melendez?? Pretty big difference

[cooltobeyou]

I understand the complaints about the high pricing on this Blu-Ray...but it should be noted that any serious fan of Peanuts would be better off just picking up the box set of "Its The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown/A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving/A Charlie Brown Christmas." The stand alone "Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" goes for $18.99, , on Amazon, while the set goes for $34.99. Its pretty much a no brainer to just pick up the set.

[Bouncy X]

wouldnt it be better to just release them all in one collection? i mean you could fit every special they made onto 1 or 2 discs. of course they wanna make money so maybe just make individual volumes with 3 to 4 specials each and then make a complete set.

but this "releasing one at a time" plan is utterly retarded. sure they usually throw a second special on there but its usually advertised as some sort of extra as if its not important or something. i'm not a Peanuts fan but i am a huge Garfield one and they did the same. in his case there are only 9 tv specials and they slowly released them 3 per disc instead of just doing a full collection. and the weirdest part is that they finally did make a boxset but omitted the Holiday specials from it.

[Master X]

wouldnt it be better to just release them all in one collection? i mean you could fit every special they made onto 1 or 2 discs. of course they wanna make money so maybe just make individual volumes with 3 to 4 specials each and then make a complete set.

but this "releasing one at a time" plan is utterly retarded. sure they usually throw a second special on there but its usually advertised as some sort of extra as if its not important or something. i'm not a Peanuts fan but i am a huge Garfield one and they did the same. in his case there are only 9 tv specials and they slowly released them 3 per disc instead of just doing a full collection. and the weirdest part is that they finally did make a boxset but omitted the Holiday specials from it.

This is out, I got just it today

[Elee s]

This and the Dr. Seuss releases. Sooo overpriced.

[Gojira]

The Holiday Pack is the way to go! Mine is still on the way from Warner. I paid $25.46 with free shipping. I can dig it! FYI- I did see this stand-alone version (Halloween) at Wal-Mart for $15 in the slip-sleeve.

[project-blu]

is the holiday pack in slim cases, fat cases, or a single spine?

a shame the "it's the great dolemite, charlie brown" was awful compared to the Easter N**** or Mother F***ing Ramadan mostoffensivevideo redubs.

[Blu-News.com]

Hi Nate

All three releases are housed in their individual/regular Blu-ray cases, no slip covers however, but they are all housed in the box. I personally have to have both versions in my collection.

[project-blu]

rokey dokey. last year i got all 3 of the holiday titles late in the year, way past release, so here's hoping for a repeat lol.

if no, after christmas, i'll buy this set.

[SorynArkayn]

I'm a big Peanuts fan, but the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" Hallowe'en Special is my least favourite of all of the Peanuts specials. The characters are authentic, but this story just isn't very good. When Lucy rants at Linus for them wasting the whole night sitting in the pumpkin patch and missing on on trick 'r' treating, that's how I feel about watching this TV special. Unlike the entertaining and wholesome Thanksgiving, Christmas, and St. Valentine's Day Specials, this one is very disappointing. The reviewer was correct that this Special is ironically about faith, but I feel like one of the South Park Hallowe'en episodes got it right when they explained that Hallowe'en was just about costumes and candy.
I'll probably watch this special on TV this year, merely because of tradition; but I don't think it's worth buying on Blu-ray. I'm considering buying the Peanuts Holiday Collection on Blu-ray, but this definitely is not worth buying on its own.

[gravis778]

Just ask yourself if this short feature is worth the relatively high price to own this new high-definition incarnation. For me, the answer is no,

This is out, I got just it today

Yep, I preordered mine too. Why pay $18 for one when I can pay twice that and get FOUR shows? That makes it to be about $8.50 a show. Hasn't been shipped yet, though, which surprises me, I have Amazon Prime.

[Blu-News.com]

Four shows? You mean 3 releases? Six specials on those 3 releases. The cover art shows four images, but they are just three releases. I have to own both simply because the slip covers are some of the best.

[gravis778]

Four shows? You mean 3 releases? Six specials on those 3 releases. The cover art shows four images, but they are just three releases. I have to own both simply because the slip covers are some of the best.

You're right. I was thinking It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown was a seperate disc. It looks like each disc, though, holds two shows, so this breaks down to about $6.00 a show. or about $12 a disc (sorry, don't feel like doing the exact math right now). But I understand the box art thing. As for me, they all sit on the shelf with just their spines sticking out, so I really don't mind if its a boxed set, three different cases, or one standard size case that houses 3 discs.

[gravis778]

My boxed set came in yesterday. I think the scoring here is a BIT harsh, but I agree with the reasoning. This is the best it ever looked, and I cannot find anything to fault. As such, I think video should recieve probably 4 stars, simply because there is nothing wrong with it, its just not demo material.

I agree 100% with the audio on Its The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

As for Its Magic, the audio and video is slightly better. Much more detail and textures are in it, and the show seems to possibly have been mastered in stereo rather than mono, and the fidelity is much better.