Friday, March 18, 2016

Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

If you are feeling annoyed about everything from the election to your job, don’t worry.

Alvin and his chipmunks team are back to have you not worry anymore – and make you laugh at silly moments.

Originally made for a 1958 Christmas novelty record by Ross Badgasarian Sr, the trio’s three movies have overall will be soon worth $1 billion globally.

How about that for another entry in some squeaks?

It’s the way of thinking which makes these movies innocuous and enjoyable as a guilty pleasures for children particularly.

The previous movies depended on older songs like Funky Town and I Want To Know What Love Is.

Now it has caught up with more pop hits including Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem, Katy Perry’s Firework and Flo Rida’s Club Can’t Handle Me featuring disk jockey David Guetta.

Graham Young stated in his review, “And they alone make the film more exciting than this year’s X Factor final.” In this entry, “Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” released in 2011, Alvin, Simon and Theodore are joined on an extravagant cruise liner by the Chipettes: Britney, Eleanor and Jeanette.

Looking after them is songwriter Dave, while their former manager Ian is put in a pelican suit as the ship’s entertainer.

Young stated, “The sweeping shots of the liner and the on-board fun would have done me for the whole movie.”

However, our protagonists are soon on a remote island where Young states, “Dante’s Peak is set to meet Cast Away, thanks to an active volcano putting in danger to a stranded DHL worker Zoe, played by the voice of the online character “Marcel the Shell with Shoes on,” the hot Jenny Slate.

Young admitted, “Chipwrecked is derivative and predictable and not for anyone who’d rather be watching Schindler’s List.”

However, this is good, clean old-fashioned family entertainment, innocently relaxing and a current vision into the shallow nonsense of modern celebrity. Children will love it.

Like I have stated before in the other reviews, I know that these movies aren’t technically good movies, but they are harmless movies for kids. Similar to how the Nostalgia Critic said about the “Care Bears” movies (which I have never seen), if you have children, they will be entertained by them. I actually enjoyed them through the eyes of the child.

Now I thought that this movie was the last and they would leave it as a trilogy, but they recently came out with a fourth entry. That will be looked at next week in the finale of “Alvin & the Chipmunks Month.”

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