Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

That’s really the main problem with this special, even more than the mutation of melancholy to sentiment: It’s not all that funny. For long stretches, it barely even tries to be funny. .... The authorial voice that comes through most clearly here is Ben Folds, who wrote the songs. He doesn’t sing any of them, leaving that to the overpolished kid performers, but his piano-based mixture of exuberance and melancholy are all over each tune.