Snoopy Come Home

Where this film towers above the first one is in the music, written by Disney stalwarts Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman.

Rarely has a movie made for kids been so devastatingly honest about how relationships can sour over time.

This sprightly, clever and hilarious treat—all that a comic strip should be on the screen—is even better than "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," which began the series.

The problem may be that Bill Melendez, who directed, and Charles M. Schultz, who wrote the movie based on his own comic characters, couldn't decide whether to aim for kids or their parents.

Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez, who produced A Boy Named Charlie Brown, focus most of their attention on the independent beagle who is the despair of his master, Charlie Brown.