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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's hard to believe that this film is from 2003! It has the look and overall feel of the originals from the 60s and 70s - a really good Christmas cartoon movie. If you do like the originals then you should like this 2003 because it's just as good.In this one, Lucy and Linus' little brother Rerun wants a dog for Christmas but his parents will not allow him to have one because it's a lot of work caring for a dog. Rerun starts bugging Charlie Brown to play with Snoopy and eventually Snoopy's brother Spike comes to stay with Rerun and his family for awhile.Really cute, fun movie for the entire family.10/10

It's interesting how the Peanuts can start out with some random story lines and then go into the larger one like this does. Before we even get a title screen, we have at least two or three stories already showing.This follows the story of Rerun who desperately wants a dog. It's rather cute but doesn't keep following the storyline in the beginning but then as the story kept going, Rerun asks more and more about having a dog. Then when they were talking about Snoopy's family, we get some insight into his brothers and sisters which I thought was rather fun. Throughout a lot of the shows, we don't really see his family until then. It doesn't explain though why Snoopy is rather off most of the time.The animation is fluid with watercolor backgrounds against hard line characters. It's the normal style for one of these old Charlie Brown cartoons which surprises me since its such a early one. Each of Snoopy's brothers and sisters have their own style and are easy to tell apart though sometimes its hard to remember all the names as they only really say them once except for Spike.Voices are the same as the other shows, and I believe were done by the same voice actors. Sometimes they break the forth wall in the script as Rerun is on top of his mother's bike or during the end which is actually rather fun.

While "I Want a Dog for Christmas" has it's flaws and may not totally live up to the old "A Charlie Brown Christmas", it nonetheless manages to hold a special place in my heart and has remained a staple for my family's Christmas viewing for three years running. I can remember being in the philosophical Rerun's position, both for wanting a dog -- for years and years until I was able to get one when I was in my teens, and also for and also for being treated as the "baby" in the family. Seeing other members of Snoopy's family was a treat.I felt the script could have been a little tighter, but I think it is far from being dreadful.

Peanuts still makes me smile after all these years. This new animated feature was very good. For the big Peanuts aficianados, you'll recognize a lot of the gags are from the weekly strips themselves, some dating back to the 1960s. It was done very well and I very much enjoyed it.