Watch the distressingly unfaithful trailer for the Peanuts movie

Watch the distressingly unfaithful trailer for the Peanuts movie
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The new trailer for Fox's Peanuts movie starts convincingly enough: Snoopy, Woodstock, and that song everybody loves from A Charlie Brown Christmas. And then Snoopy dons his Red Baron cap, the crappy pop song kicks in, and the whole thing suddenly becomes another charmless Hollywood riff on a beloved classic:

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.