kscollins-53296 This movie made me consider immigrating to North Korea, just to be away from this atrocity. Even a one way trip to Mars is better. I'd rather give birth to a live elephant. I'd rather rip my fingernails off. I'd rather eat at Taco Bell. This movie is like how bile tastes. There's also nudity, and it is a one way track to sin. Our economy is plummeting and this is how the government repays us. The cold hands of capitalism have me in a vice I can not escape. One day the death of society with come for us all, in the form of horrendous high notes and outdated clichés. This movie is a dark abyss, and I'm tired to the lies.

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.

bumblebritches57 The movie was terrible, I LOVED Alvin and the Chipmunks when I was little, I even sang along constantly to their music, and I was excited to hear that a movie was coming out, but Jason Lee RUINED this movie, he's SO god damn grating it's literally unbearable to watch. his "Alvinnnnnnnnnn!" scream is terrible, his acting is terrible (Literally the worst I've ever seen, Megan Fox is light-years ahead of this douche-bag) the only good *anything* he's ever been in, was My Name is Earl, and that's because he's "playing" a white trash character, and given his acting chops, I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out he is actually white trash. there is nothing redeemable about his "performance" and the sad part is, the rest of the movie isn't too bad, not great, but I'd give the non Jason Lee parts a 5.5-6. Hopefully Universal will reboot this franchise and actually find a good male lead, and do away with all the cheesiness, and "we're-gonna-pander-the-movie-to-three-year-olds-because-they- don't-know-what-a-decent-movie-is".

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...