ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL
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Dave (Jason Lee) isn’t just the standard father figure with an normal family, but he cares deeply about his adoptive chipmunks Alvin (Justin Long), Theodore (Jesse McCartney), and Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler). While the behaving hold up presents the own singular challenges, Dave regularly does his most appropriate to teach a clarity of care and patrimonial love in to his immature charges. When Alvin starts to get a small as well held up in his own stardom, Dave reminds him to share the spotlight with his associate chipmunks, but Alvin gets carried divided and ends up inadvertently injuring Dave on place in Paris. Aunt Jackie (Kathryn Joosten) steps in to demeanour after the Chipmunks, but when her wheelchair rolls down a moody of stairs, usually her insane grandson Toby (Zachary Levi) is left to watch over the boys. An impoverished video gamer who lives with Jackie, Toby is utterly confused for the shortcoming of caring for the Chipmunks, but he agrees nonetheless. Starting propagandize is not easy for the Chipmunks, and they have been the aim of bullying from their really initial day. But Alvin in the future functions his approach in with the renouned crowd, withdrawal Theodore and Simon to deflect for themselves with small await from Toby. The propagandize principal (Wendie Malick) is one of the Chipmunks’ greatest fans, and when the school’s song dialect is about to be close down due to miss of funds, she decides to come in them in a foe which will save the song program. Enter the Chipettes–female chipmunks Brittany (Christina Applegate), Eleanor (Amy Poehler), and Jeanette (Anna Faris), who have been looking their own possibility for singing stardom–and the Chipmunks’ prejudiced ex-agent, Ian (David Cross), and the theatre is set for a little critical backstabbing competition. Craziness reigns as the dual groups salary a low-pitched fight opposite one another, but in the finish it all comes down to a subject of what’s some-more important–stardom or friendship. As in the initial Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, the song is not often delectable notwithstanding being achieved often in falsetto, the characters have been cute, the movement is comical, and the hold up lessons ring true. (Ages 6 and comparison with parental superintendence due to a little amiable bold humor) –Tami Horiuchi
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
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This was almost as bad as the 1st which I’d give a minus 3 I only saw it in hopes it’d go into the Chipettes oragins. It didn’t in fact rather than bother to go into anything close to the classic cartoons values it centered around compitition, some nitwit cousin and a few sight gag. the only redeption at all was when Alvin did risk his life to protect Theadore from a bird of prey.. Frankly my cat could’ve writen a better story.
For you who want to introduce your kids to the chipmunks who had comedy and values try the Cartoons that are now avaiable on DVD. Don’t waste time or money on this tripe.
Rating: 1 / 5
I certainly didn’t intend to watch the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, but as my kids watched it, I found parts of it to be humorous and enjoyable. Dave Seville, played by Jason Lee of MY NAME IS EARL fame, was perhaps the best part for the adults. It was fun to watch his interactions with his furry little singing friends. Then the sequel came along. I didn’t want to see it, but went along with the family for a Christmas outing.
The first thing wrong is that Jason Lee and Dave Seville is not in this movie at all except for the first five minutes and last five minutes. Why? What did he have to do that was so important? So, when he’s in it, he’s doing his trademark “Aaalllvvviiinnn” yell as much as possible. The rest of the movie is horrible. The chipmunks are sent to high school where the jocks feel immediately threatened by them. The three rodents get involved with different groups and all kinds of “hilarious” hijinks ensue. And then the Chipettes show up. They bring nothing to the movie either.
David Cross as Ian is back as well. He was funny in the first, but his act grows old in the second. As the credits rolled, I saw all kinds of famous people like Justin Long, Anna Farris and Amy Polhler lent their voices to the Chipmunks. Why?
As it is with most kid movies, your kids will probably enjoy watching it once. But for the adults, it will be one of the worst movies you will ever see.
Rating: 1 / 5
The laughs and charming moments were few and far between in the Chimpmunks “Squeakquel.” Based on the trailer I had agreed to see it, but it didn’t live up to even that modest potential. Even the 10-year old who was the primary moviegoer judged it “disappointing.” You may be asking “what did I expect from a kids’ movie?” but the truth is that I love good kids’ movies. I would have rather watched “The Wizard of Oz,’ anything by Pixar, or “Coraline” again at home on DVD rather than spend sixteen dollars and two hours of my life on this lazy production.
I liked the new girl group the Chipettes, who had the potential to breathe some new life into this classic cartoon, but they were sparingly used. There should have been a lot more music because that’s when the movie came to life. Other than that it was mostly mayhem, bullying, and fart jokes. Is it funny to see a woman in a wheelchair fall down the stairs? No. Is it funny to see the Chipmunk’s human “father” Dave get put into traction? No. Is it funny to see Simon get bullied by a toilet swirlie or get bashed with a dodge ball by the popular boys at school? No.
The movie’s script is really lazy–the kind of film where the villainous record producer (who was actually pretty funny at times, because he went for total ham and cheese with his comic humiliation) says, “I need to find more singing chipmunks,” and then the next scene shows the three incredibly talented and cute female Chipettes FedExing themselves to him to ask him to make them singing stars. That was easy.
The character Alvin is supposed to have attitude but I found him really grating. But the thing that really makes me give this movie one star is that the all of the human actors deserve better. Jason Lee (who is really only in it for 5 minutes, good for him I guess), Wendie Malick, Zachary Levi, David Cross, Kathryn Joosten make up an eclectic and talented cast and it pained me to see them acting into the air opposite animated chipmunks. (I kept thinking that Wendie Malick must have been jealous of Christine Baranski’s scene stealing role in “Mamma Mia.” Here Malick is stuck with the indignity of playing a school principal who secretly sports a chipmunk fan tattoo. Yuck.) And the celebrity voices of the chipmunks were totally wasted, Justin Long, Amy Poehler, Christina Applegate…they are unrecognizable anyway.
The CGI animation of the chipmunks is good, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. The previews before the show included two more awful-looking CGI animal movies coming soon to a theater near you, “Furry Vengeance” with Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields, in which Fraser is farted on by skunks and locked in a porta potty by furry woodland animals, and “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” a cats and dogs spy movie with Chris O’Donnell. Quick, someone write a better screenplay for these beloved stars of the ’90s and ’00s, and invite the cast of “Alvin and the Chimpunks,” too!
Rating: 1 / 5
One good film deserves a sequel–Or Squeakquel, in this case. Unfortunately, for some of the audience, the second film does not necessarily live up to the fun of the first.
There are two audiences for Chipmunks films. The first are, of course, the children. In this case, the third generation of kids who are fans of David Seville’s creations. The second are the older fans who grew up with the music and the cartoons.
The kids (and in some cases, grandkids) generally loved this movie. There was a lot of action and fun as Alvin, Theodore and Simon rollicked through High School and eventually learned some important life lessons. The older fans, like my husband and I, may well be somewhat disappointed.
Why? My husband and I, who grew up with the original Chipmunk craze, came to one conclusion: Dave is missing. In the first part of the film, Alvin manages to sideline Dave (Jason Lee) and he’s only seen at the very beginning and end of the show. Instead of Dave, the trio had Dave’s slacker cousin Toby (Zachary Levi) as their guardian and Toby just didn’t really care about the furkids like Dave does.
Of course, we had a return of the evil manager, Ian (David Cross) who was staging his renaissance by representing the three-girl Chipettes, but they just were pale female imitations of the Chipmunks.
If you’re looking for a holiday film for the kids, this is a decent choice, though I’d actually recommend Disney’s excellent THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG instead.
Rebecca Kyle, December 2009
Rating: 2 / 5
Nah, I began to like ALvin & the Chipmunks cuz of Charice and now I got this CD to hear No One cover by Charice. She sings great and the Chippetes backing her up is quite funny.
Rating: 5 / 5