Product Details

• Actors: Chad Allen, Kristie Baker, Tiffany Billings, Sean Collins (III), Elizabeth Lyn Fraser
• Directors: Bill Melendez
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: September 17, 1996
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304209304
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,153 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Ring in the new! Some things, however, don't change with a turn of the calendar page: Charlie Brown still has homework to do on the night of the big New Year's Eve party.

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Year's we can all relate to, October 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Peanuts: Happy New Year Charlie Brown (Slip Case Packaging) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a Charlie Brown classic that covers all the basics: Homework during Christmas break and finding someone to kiss when the clock strikes midnight. Poor Charlie Brown has been given a doozy of a homework assignment...read War and Peace over Christmas vacation. Plus he has to go a New Year's Eve party and somehow manage to kiss that "little red-haired girl." Of course, War and Peace puts him to sleep (literally!) and Charlie Brown wakes up after midnight. Snoopy and the gang naturally have the time of their lives (and guess who Linus kisses at midnight?!) This is a video you simply have to own and should be watched with a Charlie Brown Christmas.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prove a Point..., January 18, 2006

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Shamontiel L. Vaughn "Message from Montie" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peanuts: Happy New Year Charlie Brown (Slip Case Packaging) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Old Review 1/16/2006: I actually bought this VHS tape to prove a point about Marcy & Peppermint Patty, but in the process, fell in love with Charlie Brown all over again. Who in the world wants to read War & Peace on New Year's Eve? Aargh!

New Review 12/31/2006: I'm so sad that this doesn't come in DVD. This is absolutely my favorite one and I'm a hardcore Peanuts fan (specifically Charlie Brown and Lucy). Charlie Brown is stuck reading War and Peace, and the little Red-Headed Girl is invited to the New Year's party. Pepperment Patty thinks the "sly dog" wants to kiss her at midnight but he falls asleep at the best moment. Poor Chuck! There are some great musical numbers in this one that I can bop along to. I watched this as a child and would LOVE to see this at midnight but I've checked three places and nobody is selling it on DVD. Oh well!

I just realized after I tried to post my first review that I'd already posted one...and I didn't know I had the VHS. I can't find it. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh. I'm as sad as Chuck.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not Great, December 30, 2004

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R. Mark Melville (North Salt Lake, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peanuts: Happy New Year Charlie Brown (Slip Case Packaging) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This had the misfortune to be made in the 80s. Charlie Brown specials weren't their best at this time. The music was post-Guaraldi and pre-David Benoit. For some reason, the voices and animation weren't good, either. However, it isn't the worst Peanuts special. (That award goes to "Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown")

If this were made in the 70s, it would be great. The New Year plotline involves Charlie Brown's homework dilemmas and New Year Dances.

If you want a good Charlie Brown storyline, this is fine. If you want good music and voices, no. I think I only watch this because it's a New Year special.