Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

bellino-angelo2014 Yeah, the summary says it. This is one of the worst movies ever made, there is no doubt about it. Why this movie has an overall rating of 5,2 and it isn't in the Bottom 100 (along with the three sequels) is beyond me. And THIS is the type of movie I'll never show kids. And don't believe all the trolls that rate it 10! It has dreadfullness written all over it, all the characters are obnoxious in the way you want to kill them and the music is just the sort of thing you'll likely cut your ears with scissors than hear it, and the jokes are the worst!And seriously, why Jason Lee? WHO ELSE TAUGHT THAT JASON LEE WAS FUNNY? If I was the director I would have contacted and forced Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell instead of Jason Lee. He is everything but funny, as he lacks charisma and credibility, and all the other actors are all incapable of good acting! The less I talk of the three chipmunks the better it is, they are so stupid and obnoxious at the same time, and the voice actors don't do nothing to make them likeable! This movie is of the same league of SON OF THE MASK, BABY GENIUSES I and II, ED (the chimpanzee that plays baseball movie), SANTA CLAUSE CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, THE CONQUEROR (known as John Wayne's worst movie), MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE, JINGLE ALL THE WAY, EXORCIST II: THE ERETIC and HOWARD THE DUCK: every way you look at them, they are garbage and painful to look at!I'll rate this one because I hope many users will rate this piece of s**t one like me, and simply because IMDB doesn't allow the zero rating.Advice: AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS, BELIEVE ALL THE HATERS, THIS MOVIE IS BAD. Instead let their kids watching something better like MRS. DOUBTFIRE or ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE. They are funny and worth your time!

SnoopyStyle Dave Seville (Jason Lee) is a struggling artist and his music producer Ian Hawke (David Cross) rejects his latest song. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are musical chipmunks. Their tree gets chopped down to be the Christmas tree in the record company. The chipmunks are accidentally taken to Dave's home. Dave discovers the talking chipmunks and their musical talents. Claire Wilson (Cameron Richardson) is his neighbor. Gail (Jane Lynch) is Dave's advertising boss.This is strictly for kids. The parents who bring the kids will find little to no laughs. Did I laugh at the poop joke? Yes. I don't think I was paying attention to the movie. It was more of a shock than funny but I still laughed. One can make fun of Jason Lee doing it for the paycheck but who doesn't. It's not like he's winning an Oscar any time soon. The chipmunks are mostly harmless fun. The music is good initially especially as a Christmas song. Once it goes hip-hop, it gets annoying.

Thomas Stansfield I remember seeing this movie in early 2008, in Australia movies that were released in America during the Christmas period either come out on Boxing Day or around January of the new year. I liked it at first but after seeing the movie again it has its own problems. The main thing is the pop cultured referencing of the songs, which are made as a novelty item. It would've been a better plot line if we see how the chipmunks brought their success from the ground up in the 1950's rather being a modern take of it. This film just retcon's everything from the 1983 television series. We see Alvin, Simon and Theodore just met up with Dave in the movie as wild rodents in the movie. In the TV show we see them being adopted by Dave after there mother, the chipmunks', abandoned them as she thinks they won't survive through a terrible winter. The same can be said about the Chippettes in the second film, instead of fledging from Australia from a horrible orphanage they were mailed to the record company in L.A.The good thing though is that around the first half of the film they were kept in character, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, like in the original TV series. Alvin the troublemaker, Theodore the food lover and Simon the smart one. Then they screwed up later on by giving them the 'fame gone to their head' treatment. But I will say it had tried to be good, it's not great but it's not horrendously bad. But in my opinion, they should reboot the whole franchise and fix up every mistake that was made and give it some credit to the 80's TV show. Have the plot set in the 1950's when 'Witch Doctor' was a hit and maybe each of the sequel focus on different decades. I know they modernized things for the younger generation of today, but characters like Alvin and the Chipmunks are classic characters that have fans from the past. The TV show and the 1987 movie, even though it wasn't great but at least it was fun, had something valuable to watch to look back at and these movies don't.These films will be nothing but outdated pop cultural fads, I know the same can be said about the 80's TV show but some 80's songs manage to be timeless, like Michael Jackson.

shelltoontv Alvin and the Chipmunks are way older than me, but I remember growing up with the cartoon in my childhood, and how much of a love/hate relationship I had with it. My first thoughts upon hearing about a Chipmunks movie was "Oh please god, let this be a joke." After sitting in front of my TV screen, I realized it's not a terrible family movie, but it has its problems.Yes, the chipmunks are CGI. I normally hate CGI, but I ignore it because it was the only way to make this movie work. The other thing I noticed was a bit of a social commentary on how big executives will try their hardest to milk a big star. Unfortunately, this is all ruined by too much in the way of pop culture references. POP CULTURE REFERENCES ARE NOT COMEDY!! The other problem with the humor is it's at times too crude.All problems aside, Alvin and the Chipmunks wasn't the worst thing I've ever sat through. There is much worse out there... MUCH worse...