Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

(Originally seen many years ago) It's a terrible film, one where every character is intolerable and one where you wish you could take a drive in your car and run over these little rodents and then reverse to ensure you have stopped there irritating signing and there annoying voices. It may be aimed at kids, but for adults who have to sit through this alleged comedy, it will be a struggle not to leave the room, it's an unwatchable, dreadful film. 0/10

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.

great amazing it is the best Chipmunks movie so far i can not wait for the forth one this movie was funny you will like it a lot if you are looking for a movie that you will laugh on this is the perfect movie this movie is a sweet movie i never thought this movie was going too be this good but it was amazing this movie is one of a kind this is one funny movie for the whole family this is a enjoyable movie for the whole family i liked this movie a lot so will you you have never seen a movie like this before i laughed so hard it as a one of a kind movie you will like it too you have never seen a movie like this before do you know the Chipmunks or not because this movie is like a true story it is a enjoyable movie you will say wow after you see it if you see this movie you will know why i am saying this have a great day

When it comes to Hollywood adapting animated show's/Anime, people always ask, "Why?".One of Hollywood's worst adaptations of a cartoon show is none other than the CGI-Animated/Live-action movie, "Alvin and the Chipmunks".The story is about a guy named, Dave(played by Jason Lee), get's help from three chipmunks named, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, because he's having trouble trying to make a good song.Good: I thought the acting was pretty good to be honest. Jason Lee does a decent job as Dave and the actor's who did the voices for Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, were pretty good.The CGI Animation was also good. I also liked how they had some of the song's because I was a fan of the Chipmunks when I was little.Bad: Everything else was boring. Even though I had a few chuckles here and there, I was bored. Also, why have David Cross as the bad guy? Why?This film is strictly for kids and not for any fan of, "Alvin and the Chipmunks".