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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jason Lee & Alvin & the Chipmunks | |
Performer: | Cameron Richardson, David Cross & Jane Lynch | |
Directed by | Tim Hill | |
Edited by | Peter E. Berger | |
Screenplay by | Jon Vitti, Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi | |
Composition by | Christopher Lennertz | |
Created by | Ross Bagdasarian | |
Story by | Jon Vitti | |
Produced by | Janice Karman & Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Lyons Collister | |
Voice: | Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler & Jesse McCartney | |
Executive Production by | Karen Rosenfelt, Steve Waterman, Arnon Milchan & Michele Imperato Stabile |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
It has its fun moments, especially when those little guys sing "Funky Town."
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Hollywood.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The animated chipmunks are just the right blend of realism and anthropomorphism. Their signature songs and rendition of "Funkytown" are fun, but their squeaky versions of current hits such as "Bad Day" are annoying, not charming.
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The Oklahoman
Rating: 1/5 --
It's the kind of family entertainment that makes you reach for the shotgun.
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Times (UK)
An endearing effort that will appeal to under-10s with its slight tale of the three all-talking, all-singing rodents.
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Financial Times
Pure hell.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 1/5 --
Is it for kids? Adults? Marsupials? Martians? Who can tell. Jason Lee from My Name Is Earl stars - if that is the word - in this thoroughly brain-dead semi-animated family comedy.
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Guardian
This new movie nicely updates the chipmunks into the realm of CGI animation and seamlessly places them in the real world.
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Urban Cinefile
Product Description:
This live-action/computer-animated update of Ross Bagdasarian's squeaky-voiced cartoon characters finds the chipmunks (in CGI form) transported from their woodland habitat to the city, where they wind up in the home of Dave Seville (Jason Lee). Dave, a down-on-his-luck songwriter, realizes the potential of a singing chipmunk pop act, and becomes an unlikely mentor/father figure to feisty Alvin, brainy Simon, and dopey Theodore. Meanwhile, the threesome causes chaos in his life, leading to plenty of fun, frenetic scenarios. When a devious record executive (David Cross) enters the picture, however, Alvin and the Chipmunks must deal with both the trappings of fame and their loyalty to the amiable, hapless Dave.
Directed by Tim Hill (GARFIELD: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES), ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS simultaneously modernizes and pays tribute to the classic title characters, who first appeared in the late 1950s and became wildly popular in the '60s. While Lee (MY NAME IS EARL) is well cast as the perpetually exasperated Dave, Long (LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD) steals the show as the voice of Alvin, who provides the group's lively spirit. Though some older viewers may wince at the prospect of their beloved Chipmunks rapping, the movie is generally respectful of the franchise's long legacy, and will easily win over a younger generation.
Directed by Tim Hill (GARFIELD: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES), ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS simultaneously modernizes and pays tribute to the classic title characters, who first appeared in the late 1950s and became wildly popular in the '60s. While Lee (MY NAME IS EARL) is well cast as the perpetually exasperated Dave, Long (LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD) steals the show as the voice of Alvin, who provides the group's lively spirit. Though some older viewers may wince at the prospect of their beloved Chipmunks rapping, the movie is generally respectful of the franchise's long legacy, and will easily win over a younger generation.