Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Good concept, poorly executed.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

-Title: Alvin and the chipmunks -Genre: Animation -Story: This movie is about the chipmunk's band -Interesting point: musicI usually likes chipmunks. The main characters of this movie is three small chipmunks. So I think this movie is one of the cutest movie. They are different from other chipmunks for the following two points. First, they can speak English. They are good at speaking English than me.. Second, they can sing very well. Their music is so good. I like their music. For this reason, I recommend this movie. I want to recommend this to kids and tired friends. If I have enough time, I will watch this movie again. I hope you watch this movie too.

I don't understand the bad ratings of that movie. Maybe i can explain it from the point of a kid, which really likes this movie. I am now an 18 year old Man who is very interested in movies, so when Alvin and the chipmunks came in the theaters i was about 10 years old. And for me and my brother it was an adventure to see that movie. People often forget that there are movies who only exist to entertain kids and not the critical eyes of film interested man who only likes good films for example bird man and so on. This is a movie for kids which is very entertaining and also brings back the wonderful feeling of Christmas in that time. It also learns much about money and friends. I can say that the message of this movie is to stay on the ground and with your family and that you should not go there where the money is. After that movie i became a big fan of the chipmunks. I was surprised that it was that good, my brother and i also always listened to the songs of them. And thats what it about in this movie, its not interesting mystical or something, it is a wonderful entertaining film for kids and the film also contains some good messages.(Sorry for my bad English, i am Austrian)

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.

Just like the cartoon, this is an adorable movie about chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, who meets frustrated songwriter David Seville (Jason Lee). Together, they set out fame as singers, hoping to make a positive impact in their lives. However, the unscrupulous record executive, Ian Hawke (David Cross), wants to exploit the Chipmunks, directly breaking up the family in the process.The movie does pick up the pace at first when the chipmunks first appear on screen and runs into Seville, ending up being his house mates. The chipmunks' singing were pretty fun to listen to; however, the story's pace looses steam somewhere in the middle, where the chipmunks lose their spunk and let the fame get the best of them. The story basically dragged on from there.The voice actors who played the chipmunks did a fine job, but Jason Lee wasn't very good as Seville and clearly wasn't right for the role. I would have liked to see him show more emotion and surprised expressions when he first spots three singing chipmunks (it's not everyday you see three, tiny singing critters). Unfortunately, he showed a disinterest in the role and lacked substance overall.This movie has its fun moments, mostly in the beginning, but not a terribly great movie overall. I'll watch this once, and then find something else to spend other Saturday nights with.Grade C-