A Charlie Brown Christmas

Title: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Selected By: Gavin (with Guidance from Serenity)
Our Review:
At the risk of sounding unAmerican, I have to admit I just have never "gotten" Charlie Brown. I always feel like I am missing something. It's like watching boring, sad, people have uninteresting conversations. To be fair, I often feel the same way about "The Office" another wildly popular, if more recent, bastion of American pop culture. But I thought maybe the problem was just that I hadn't watched any Charlie Brown since I was a kid and now maybe I would understand it more? No. Still boring.
Little boys were completely uninterested in it. Gideon said it was "almost nearly as funny as 'The Penguins of Madagascar'" which I at first thought was a huge compliment, coming from The P of Ms biggest fan, but he later clarified that he meant that it was about half as funny. So take that as you will.
Rob felt obligated to give it a thumbs up for nostalgia sake, remembering that he watched it with his family every year, but it was a reluctant thumbs up.
I did find that I snickered at a few lines and it is hard not to appreciate Snoopy's dancing, but overall I sill have to say this is one cultural phenomenon I don't understand.
Serenity was the one member of the family to give it a strong thumbs up. She apparently clues in to whatever it is the rest of us are missing. She says she found the dialogue very funny and really appreciated all the witty one-liners.

We rate this movie: 2 thumbs up and 4 thumbs down.
2.5 out of 5 stars.

As a side note, pizza this week was fab! Plain white crust, the sauce was salsa sprinkled with taco seasoning topped with fresh cilantro, shredded cilanto lime chicken (leftover from the night before) and mozzarella. So good!!