Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

The Age of Commercialism

Good movie but grossly overrated

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Well, what can I say? This movie is so boring. The chipmunks start going to school after Dave gets injured at The Chipmunk's concert. For what, when they can already talk and especially sing? Besides, in this movie Dave hires an elderly babysiter who got injured after falling down some stairs while she was in her wheeling chair. Now the chipmunks are with the babysiter's lazy grandson, Toby. Oh yes, at school The Chipmunks met "The Chippets". The Chippets are the girl version of The Chipmunks, and now somehow go to the same school now! Ian Hawk was homeless one day and found The Chippets and started to become rich again. Meanwhile, The Chipmunks were losing popularity so they wanted The Chippets to join them instead of being with Ian since he was being so bossy. Towards the end of the movie, there's a talent show for $25,000. The Chipmunks wanted the Chippets to preform with them. But, Ian was gettng ready to take the Chippets to the airport, Alvin drives a toy motercycle to save the girls. After Alvin gets the girls, Ian finds them and drives a toy helecopter. Somehow, they got the remote to the helecopter and was able to drive back to the high school and won the talent show. Dave returns during the talent show and decides to keep The Chippets as 'family". At the very end, Alvin and Dave flick on and off the lights arguing about school and that Alvin isn't tired to go to bed. Aa Dave tries to come to Alvin when he still has crouches on, Alvin switches the light off and dave slips on a random skateboard and falls. Funny, right? The end!I remember back in 2009, nobody in my theater laughed, except for that scene where Toby does a dutch oven on Thedore. Still, not so funny.

There is a certain level of shame that befalls a nation when they collectively defame an American classic to make millions. The wholesome morals that once existed in the United States have ceased to exist as the age of the dollar has been exacerbated like a ruptured boil. This complete monstrosity that disgraced the movie theater I unfortunately existed in on the of year 2009, completely hollowed out my childhood like a fat college woman from the South raiding a bucket of seafood from Joe's Crab Shack. I personally believe in my eighteen years on this earth, that my generation deserves one last animated movie that isn't designed to mentally brainwash the juvenile populace into whoring their existence to fit a teeny bob design of Hollywood, and the American music industry. The ungodly reality of what I see creeping up behind my grade as I graduate high school makes me want to widen the gap even further to the point where my friends and I are in a indistinguishably separate region of time, parallel to the infectious horde of flat footed materialists and narcissistic nothing creeping behind. Waiting. I saw this film as one more step to the steady downfall of human pragmatism and value. A cavalcade of flatulence, belching, and humor so dry it could soak up Kim Kardashian's underwear at the EBT awards. There is not much left on the silver screen anymore for the youngest and most vulnerable part of our society.I find beauty in photography. I will not be phased by the slow and steady rot of childhood splendor that once came from Pixar but now has transformed into cheaply distributed garbage.There is no brain left upon this golden faceted brain stem that America has whittled down to the last brain cell. I will be sparking up, inhaling sweet green apathy and watching it all burn like the end of my Tops rolling paper. Sweet dreams America.

This movie just fails on so many levels. It is terrible, I couldn't even sit through it. Don't watch it, ever, don't even show it to your kids, because they might like it at the time, but they'll get brain damage or something. So just don't check it out, definitely not, if you have to pay for it.Okay, let's start with the title. Squeakquel? Really? What the hell is that? Squeaking sequel? Did the producers think this was a funny and clever title? Let me tell you something: IT'S NOT! Moving on. The jokes. They're not funny. A poor old lady in a wheelchair falling down the stairs? Come on! Who wrote this crap? Stephen Hawking? (You see, that's an example of a bad, tasteless, offensive joke. The movie is full of them.)One big problem in the film is, that the supporting characters tend to forget that the Chipmunks are, well… damn chipmunks and not kids! Squirrels (even if they talk) are allowed to go to school? They need someone to babysit them? They're rock stars for god's sake? Gosh… Another thing that caught my attention: when those kids put the squirrels into the toilet, isn't that animal cruelty? Shouldn't they go to prison for that or something?All in all, this film is really stupid, badly written and annoying. The studio must be thinking that kids are stupid and all kinds of crap is good for them. Sorry if I cursed a lot, but this movie offended me by how bad it was. It's not the case where something is so bad it's good, it's just very bad.I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Maybe those who're blind and their hearing is impaired (ba-damm-tss).

The first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie took the tried and tested rock 'n' roll fable route, charting its talented rodents' rise to fame, their big break, the bitter struggle with the many temptations of stardom, and their inevitable exploitation by unscrupulous business types. Elation, heartache, excitement, despair, fear, joy: it was all there, along with gags about poo.The plot for The Squeakquel—a formulaic high-school based morality tale about the importance of loyalty—isn't quite as strong and the film definitely lacks the freshness of the original, but there is still enough good stuff here to warrant a watch, especially if you're already a fan of the furry trio.Betty Thomas does a decent enough job in the director's chair, delivering plenty of not too sophisticated laughs and lots of energetic musical numbers, the effects are on par with the original, and the cast all put in more than adequate performances (David Cross as evil Ian providing my favourite gag right at the end of the film). On top of all that, Alvin, Theodore and Simon are joined by the slick high-pitched harmonies of the Chipettes, an equally talented trio of female chipmunks—bookish Jeanette, big-boned Eleanor, and sexy Brittany (errr... did I say sexy? I meant cute. Time to go now, I think!).