IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (1966) **1/2 Linus is a fascinating study in faith, and how we beat ourselves up when the universe doesn't adjust itself to our perceptions. There are worse things to believe in than the Great Pumpkin, I think, and young Linus is more to be pitied than censured. Of course he gets censured anyway, because we're all pretty desperate to have someone else be wronger than us. That's all very sad, and a terribly human spin on what may be our greatest creative and spiritual longings. Either that or it's about a dumb kid who sits around in a pumpkin patch waiting for some bizarre mythological incarnation of a holiday to show up.
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