Alvin And The Chipmunks (2007)
March 2, 2008
I love my daughter. And it’s this love and nothing more that allowed me to finish watching this movie. If my daughter had not been so engrossed in this horrible film I would have easily turned it off after a half hour. Alvin and the Chipmunks ranks as one of the worst movies of 2007.
David Seville (Jason Lee) is a single guy struggling in the zany world of commercial jingles. After a bad meeting with his boss, played obnoxiously by David Cross, David heads home to mope. Once there he makes a shocking discovery to see three little stowaway chipmunks. These wacky rodents not only talk, but they can dance and sing harmony as good as any backstreet boy.
That night, while trying to sleep off the incredible events of the day, Dave keeps hearing a melody one of the chipmunks were singing earlier. He has a stroke of inspiration and stays up working on a song based on it. The next morning, Dave tells this new house mates the song and wants them to sing it. With no practice, they all start singing the song perfectly. Dave knows he just wrote a hit, and the chipmunks are going to be mega stars!
The film gets increasing worse minute by minute. Now I came into this knowing I wasn’t going to see a movie like “No Country for Old Men” or “Se7en.” However I expected better then the work of a middle school english student.
If you don’t turn the movie off fast enough you’ll see the chipmunks put on a concert with funky dancers and back up singers. You’ll also witness a crazy custody fight over the rats. Let’s not forget a sappy love story between Dave and his ex-girlfriend he still secretly longs to be with.
The movie is bad, bad, bad! My little girl loves it, God bless her. I’ll let it slip and chalk it up to the colorful CGI animals (the singing doesn’t hurt). The screen writers Jon Vitti, Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi should have their WGA membership’s revoked for producing this script. With so many other quality children’ movies out there, pass on this one. Alvin and the Chipmunks receives a half of star (and that is generous).
Alvin and the Chipmunks is a great movie, you should be ashamed of yourself. They took days making this movie just for us, and think about it! Making a computerized chipmunk move around, that’s amazing. You probably don’t have the skill to do anything like that!