Apple TVHappy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.9
Overview
It's the night of Peppermint Patty’s New Year’s Eve bash, but Charlie Brown has to write a book report about War and Peace. Hoping to join the fun for a special dance with the Little Red-Haired Girl, he tries desperately to finish in time.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
It's the night of Peppermint Patty’s New Year’s Eve bash, but Charlie Brown has to write a book report about War and Peace. Hoping to join the fun for a special dance with the Little Red-Haired Girl, he tries desperately to finish in time.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film focuses on universal childhood struggles with academic pressure and social anxiety, emphasizing individual perseverance and resilience rather than promoting any specific political ideology or systemic critique.
This animated special features the traditional casting of the established Peanuts characters, including Franklin as an original character, without any intentional race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. The narrative focuses on classic childhood anxieties and experiences, offering a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities without explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown is a traditional Peanuts special focusing on childhood experiences and anxieties. It does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes in its storyline, resulting in no specific portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This animated special features established characters from the Peanuts comic strip, all of whom retain their canonical genders as depicted in the original source material and prior adaptations. No character's gender was altered.
The animated special features the established Peanuts characters, whose racial depictions are consistent with their long-standing portrayals in the comic strip and previous animations. No character originally depicted as one race is portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.2
6.6
Critic Ratings
N/A
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