• Warning: Spoilers
    "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" is a pretty early Peanuts short movie, from the 1960s already, and soon it is going to have its 50-year anniversary. The director is Bill Melendez and the writer is Charles M. Schulz as always. The title actually gives this one away already. This time Charlie is the protagonist and he is in love. Of course, his object of desire the little red-hair girl as always and he is simply too shy to come up with the courage to talk to her. There are a couple entertaining moments, but as a whole it is basically what I described and that is not enough for 25 minutes, especially as the other Peanut characters get hardly no screen time in this one. My major criticism is about the ending. I hate it when filmmakers sacrifice realism for feel-good factor and that is exactly what happened here with the final plot twist. Sadly, this really leaves me disappointed watching this short movie. Not recommended. Not among the Peanuts' best and the 3 Emmy nominations are quite a joke.