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Director: Tim Hill
Starring: Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Ross Bagdasarian’s famous chipmunks date back all the way to 1958 and keep popping back up every decade or two. This time around, director Tim Hill (Garfield: Tale of Two Kitties) tackles the singing rodents on his way to making a mediocre kid’s comedy. The acting lets down in a few spots, but not nearly as often as the jokes, which rely on toilet humor and sit com wit.
The simple story here has three talking chipmunks, who are intermittently ignorant and familiar with human culture, finding themselves in LA, where they befriend a struggling songwriter named Dave (Jason Lee). Dave takes care of them, as he uses a record industry contact, Ian (David Cross) to carefully start them on a show business career, but soon Ian wants to take over and exploit the child-like chipmunks.
Alvin and the Chipmunks is the perfect film to rent for the kids and leave the room, but isn’t really recommendable for any other reason. The only thing special about Alvin and The Chipmunks is its big box office totals which assures a sequel in a year of two that will probably be even weaker. Nice to have something to look forward to.
