Product Details

• Actors: Daniel Anderson, Annalisa Bartolin, Scott Beach, Casey Carlson, Bill Melendez
• Directors: Bill Melendez
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount Pictures
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 1996
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304168764
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,591 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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The Peanuts gang go international! With two weeks in France, will Charlie Brown find love overseas?

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Peanuts In Europe, October 21, 2001

By	W. Langan "take403" (the end of the world to your town!) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In all 4 of the full-length Peanuts movies, somebody is going somewhere. In this final full-length feature, Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty, and Marcy win a contest at school and are awarded a trip to Europe as exchange students (somehow Snoopy and Woodstock wind up on the adventure). The title comes from a line Lucy jealously utters to Charlie Brown ("Bon voyage and don't come back!"- she stays at home). This is possibly the first time adult voices are used (the flight stewardess has an audible voice instead of the trademarked "whomp whomp waw" voice).

In England, Snoopy plays tennis at Wimbledon. Then the gang winds up in France at a mysterious chateau whose name makes everybody shudder and Charlie finds out mysteries about his ancestors (we see a picture of his grandfather who had more hair than Chuck!). Peppermint Patty and Marcy compete for Pierre's attention but Pierre seems to prefer Marcy. There's a running gag about the windup car which Snoopy drives and Charlie Brown winds up the engine for the crazy beagle, injuring his hand every time! Other funny scenes include Charlie Brown's baguette incidents and Peppermint Patty nagging Chuck to death in the exchange classroom ("Don't lick the pages with your fingers and don't hassle me with your sighs, Chuck!"). Of course, Chuck is pushed too far and distrupts the class- "WILL YOU STOP CRITICIZING ME?!"

The story continues with the half-hour TV special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?, which came out 3 years later.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST CHARLIE BROWN MOVIE YOU'LL COME ACROSS, October 4, 2004

By	Nicholas Vidoni - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When you think of Charlie Brown movies, you think of the Christmas Special or the Pumpkin King short films. There are also those often cheaply produced full-length films that were probably made for television as were the holiday vareity. However, "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown" outclasses any other Chalie Brown movie you will come across. The plot is well scripted, the music is awesome, and the animation precise. Just from viewing this piece you can tell a sizeable amount of time and energy went into this film to make it as good as it is. The jokes are funny (unlike many Peanuts films), and the gang's adventure to France is riveting. Is is truely a shame that Paramount has still not released this classic film out on DVD.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super! The coolest of all Peanuts films!, February 24, 2006

By	Taran Wanderer (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

Followed by Race for your Life, Charlie Brown (1977), this heavily critisized, classic 1980 Peanuts full length adventure is probably the best of the lot. Perhaps some of the critizism is true, but still, the film is tons of fun. The story is endearing, memorable, the music is cool, the characters are classic and adorable and the feel is creepy, yet absolutely wonderful. This is darker than all previous Peanuts films, but not as depressing as A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) or Snoopy Come Home (1972).

The story begins when a little French girl named Violet sends Charlie Brown a letter inviting him to come visit her old chateau in the French countryside. Coincidentally, that's when both Charlie Brown and Linus are invited to be part of a student exchange program that will take them over to Europe, Snoopy and Woodstock come along as well. At another school nearby, Peppermint Patty and Marcie are also taking part in the same student exchange program, so the group of six travels together. Once there, Peppermint Patty and Marcie are welcomed in the home of a little farm boy named Pierre, while Linus and Charlie Brown are surprised to find that when they arrived at the Chateau of the Mal Voisin, there's nobody there to greet them and they soon enroll in a mystery in which some history of the Brown family will be revealed!

What made this film so much fun was the whole atmosphere of it, it wasn't at all like previous Peanuts films, this one was much gloomier and slower, but super fun. A lof of scenes are plain hilarious, such as a scene which has Peppermint Patty attend school at the French schoolhouse and Snoopy's visits to an old tavern. The whole journey to Europe is wonderful, I love every second of it, it brings me a lot of memories of when I first watched the film, the nicest part here being the soft and sweet song "I Want to Remember This." This film was quite creepy and gloomy, I thought, and it did break a lof of classic Peanuts themes such as adults actually speaking and Marcie's calling Charlie Brown "Chuck" instead of "Charles," not to mention Charlie Brown actually receiving a letter.

Both A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) and Snoopy Come Home (1972) have greenlit DVD releases coming up soon, so why aren't Race for your life, Charlie Brown (1977) and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and don't come back!) (1980) seeing a DVD edition soon as well?