RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

yeelir Alvin and the Chipmunks is one of the most well made movies of all I loved it. To start us off Alvin and the Chipmunks has amazing CGI, the chipmunks look amazingly and spectacularly realistic. Another thing is Jason Lees performance. Jason Lee should of won best actor for Alvin and the Chipmunks. Jason lee delivers an Oscar worthy, wonderful , and dramatic performance for Alvin and the Chipmunks. The filmmaking is also great. This well directed thriller should of been more successful in box office. Another thing that surprises me is that the film didn't win Best Picture in fact the film didn't even go nominated. The films screenplay and dialogue is also amazing it should of won an Oscar for the screenplay. I still can't get over the fact of how great this movie is. Alvin and the Chipmunks is incredibly well constructed and directed and all around a great nay PERFECT film that is most definitely Oscar worthy and even better than The Shawshank Redemption. Alvin and the Chipmunks should get 11/10 and an A+. (im an idiot0

alwayssmiilinu I don't know why this movie has such a low rating!!! It's a KIDS MOVIE PEOPLE!!! It has fun music, NO VIOLENCE, and talking animals! The acting is for children as well, so is it a Grammy Award Winner, NO, but, still a fun and loving story! My son is 4.5yrs old and he absolutely loved it!! He was laughing, and jumping around, and totally thrilled about the movie! It doesn't have to have superheros, and violence to be a good enjoyable film for kids to be interested in! The chipmunks are fun, mischievous, and teach Dave a lesson he will not soon forget! :) Watch it with your kids and ENJOY!!! :) My son can't get enough! lol!

rorymacveigh It truly is a shame when cartoon hero's of your childhood are made into Live action films, it really is, and this is a prime example. Rather than leaving the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise alone and letting it end on the high note it did with Alvin and the Chipmunks meet the Wolfman, they decided that a live action version had to be done, and this just doesn't meet the bar that the last animated feature left off.The first problem appears in the first 2 minutes, the Chipmunks design. I realise the idea of a live action film is to make them look realistic, but the problem is we don't want to see Alvin and the Chipmunks in a realistic light, we always remember them as the almost childlike chipmunks of the 1980s with their long roll-neck jumpers and Alvin's signature cap. The idea of separating fiction from reality is to make it look unrealistic, and that's what the original series did well, made the Chipmunks look more personified and thereby more relate-able, here they just look like the rodents that chipmunks truly are so you can't exactly relate to them.Second problem is the fact that the film doesn't seem to grasp each of their individual characters. The original series has Alvin as the mischievously egotistical one, Simon as the intelligent pillar of reason and Theodore as the cutesy and innocent one with a heavy appetite. Here, they all appear to be just Alvin, mischievous, egotistical and not really cute at all. The thing that also made the original chipmunks relate-able was the fact that they had individual personalities, rather than just one stereotype like this movie has. Although this does lend itself to some humorous moments within the film, they're unfortunately few and far between and when they do show up you hardly notice them.Thirdly and probably the most important problem, the music. As well as having a critical overview on films, I have a critical overview on music, and this film seems to have no effort in giving Dave a chance to be the musical genius he was depicted as in the previous series, being the one who wrote their songs and oversaw their concerts. Also the music Alvin and the Chipmunks were more often than not known for was 50s Rock, 80s Rock, Symphonic Melodies and other Classic Tracks. Here, they just borrow from other artists and make either Rap or Hip Hop tracks, which to my mind requires little to no brain power to sing or make, just talking to the beat of a drum machine about one's sexual experiences, but that's beside the point. What was important was that Dave in the original was truly the music man, making the songs whilst sometimes borrowing from existing tracks, but at least the music was enjoyable and had something you could bounce to, here Dave doesn't write one song nor does he show up that often, its more so the sleazy villain that does the role of what Dave would normally be accustomed to.Overall, this film isn't its best and though you may consider me to have set to bar really too high for this film based on the last feature length chipmunk film, it probably wouldn't come close to the mark even if I lowered it. It's got a story (to a point), the humour is there (somewhere) and at least Alvin is his usual up to no good self (at the cost of Simon and Theodore losing their personalities). As for the rest, sadly not my cup of tea.

kosmasp I wasn't that aware of the Chipmunks, but they do seem to have a following. And you can see their appeal to a younger (=kids) audience. They are cute and they can talk. What else do you need for a successful kids movie? Of course the story as it is, is not anything new or great or anything else.As an adult you have to make sure, to try to think as little as possible. A world where Chipmunks exists (an adult world that is) wouldn't look anything like this kids version of it. But you can't blame the movie for that. It's our cynical (realistic?) view that might spoil it for us. Still not the best kids entertainment, it will occupy and satisfy every need the little ones have.