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Best of 2023: Charles Schulz Scored His Biggest Flop With It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a Disastrous Live-Action/Animation Hybrid Starring Snoopy's Loner Brother and His Own Daughter

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinDecember 29, 2023Snoopy, Charles Schulz, Spike, animation, live-action/animation, flops, television special, TV, Television

Song of the South is Racist, Terrible

For the concluding entry in Wild Disney Animation Month I come face to face with 1946’s Song of the South, which is every bit as horrifying and racist as its reputation suggests and then some.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #178 Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with the bizarre, bizarrely racist Luc Besson-directed 2006 animation/live-action hybrid Arthur and the Invisibles, a fascinatingly misbegotten project with a voice cast that includes Bowie, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Harvey Keitel, Jason Bateman, Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg.