Peanuts: A Live-Action Adventure

Peanuts: A Live-Action Adventure is a 2016 American live-action/animated periodical-action-adventure-comedy film based off of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts characters. It was directed by Gillian Armstrong, marking this the first comedy film to be directed by noted director (while Eric Goldberg directed the animation), and written by Bryan Schulz and Mike Millis, with a screenplay by Michael Colleary, and music composed by Michael Giacchino. The movie centers on comic strip-reader Steven Hartman (Bill Hader), Charlie Brown (Noah Schnapp), and the other Peanuts characters as they embark on an adventure to stop the Peanuts-hating Michael Jones (Peter Dinklage) from destroying Hartman's favorite comic strip characters.

The film premiered on May 10, 2016, and is the sixth Peanuts feature-length film to be released, after The Peanuts Movie in November 6, 2015.

Plot
Set in 2001, Comic Strip Studios boss Adam A. Bruce (Danny McBride) announces to Charlie Brown that the company is facing a slow depletion of money because of the strip's cancellation, and in order to save the studio, the round-headed boy will have to add more comedy/humor to the future strips. This makes Charlie Brown extremely nervous, thinking to himself that he will lose his job at Comic Strip Studios if his funniest comic strips goes wrong. He gets advice from his friend Lucy van Pelt, who has her therapy booth mounted on a grass field outside the studio. Lucy, despite often being a bully, refuses to let her friend get fired from the studio and tells him that he should make some more Peanuts strip that eventually becomes funnier and funnier as it progresses. Charlie takes her advice and conversates to the photographers about the humor-elevating strip. After complex writing and increasing comedy, the strip is then released to the public where lots of people are now reading it and become overjoyed at the strips' style of humor.

Charlie Brown then reports on his idea to Bruce, causing him to do Snoopy's happy dance around the room. He then congratulates Charlie and gives him the next 15 days off, while also continuing the strip with a machine that allows the photographers to pose 2D images of the characters onto the panels.

As Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Sally and Lucy walk to their homes in their neighborhood, a 29 year-old comic strip-reader, Steven Hartman spots them and says to them that he has read all of their brand-new comic strips, including the older ones. He then asks them if he wants to hang out, so the Peanuts kids agree to let him stay at Charlie Brown's house.

Right at home, Charlie Brown gives Hartman a tour of his house, including the doghouse where Snoopy sleeps on top. After the tour is done, Steven then settles on Charlie Brown's couch (seemingly replacing the pillow or bean bag where he sits on to watch TV), while Lucy and Linus gather some popcorn snacks. Hartman then turns on the TV after the Peanuts characters (especially Snoopy who has somehow made up his mind to join Hartman) are accompanying him, booting up a channel showing a clip of the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He then changes to a black and white horror film, which causes Snoopy to leap in fear to the presence of the horror. Hartman then changes the channel one more time to the news, where the anchorman (Albert Brooks) is reporting that evil businessman, Michael Jones, is plotting to destroy the Peanuts due to his sheer hatred of them. The children, Hartman and Snoopy become shocked at this and conversate to each other on what will happen if Jones succeeds in completing his plan. Hartman tells them that they must stop the evil businessman from killing the gang as they are his favorite characters. But not before they get a printed map of Jones' location at the printer store.

Then everyone starts on their journey, but accidentally fall in a manhole infested by evil rats. Lucy tries to fend the rodents off, but the strongest of the rats knocks her out cold on her back, leaving the rest of the gang to do the fighting for her. They successfully defeat all of the rats by methods of tricking and Lucy regains consciousness, allowing everyone to progress on their journey.

They later end up at Michael Jones' office building, which is even taller than a mountain with 99 floors. But after voyaging 25 floors, they later get captured by Jones' businessmen minions, being locked up in a safe. The Peanuts, thinking that they have failed to stop Michael from executing his plan, gradually start to lose their hope, but Hartman lets his stay inside his soul and explains to the gang that they've got an idea to break out of there. He gets his backpack, brings out a big bottle of super glue, gathers some gold inside the safe, and glues the parts together to make a battering ram. Then he, Charlie and Sally Brown, Lucy and Linus van Pelt, Snoopy and Woodstock hold the ram and charge towards the safe's door, causing it to bust open, while also knocking out some men guarding the safe.

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Live actors

 * Bill Hader as Steven Hartman, a 29 year-old man who has read all of the Peanuts strips. He is most likely named after Charlie Brown's voice actor in It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown.
 * Danny McBride as Adam A. Bruce, the manager of Comic Strip Studios.
 * Peter Dinklage as Michael Jones, a Peanuts-hating businessman and the main antagonist of the film.
 * Amy Poehler as Female Bus Driver
 * Albert Brooks as News Anchorman

Voice actors

 * Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown
 * Hadley Belle Miller as Lucy van Pelt
 * Alexander Garfin as Linus van Pelt
 * Bill Melendez as Snoopy
 * Mariel Sheets as Sally Brown