Customer Review(s)
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Summary: Alvin!!!
Comment: Alvin and the Chipmunks was a favorite show of mine as a child of the 80's. Just the way Alvin was always getting into trouble was appealing to me and the show quickly won me over. The movie lived up to the hype.
The movie had some really wonderful animation. The chipmunks moving around in a real environment, and interacting with the humans was believable, and goes to show just how far technology in movie production has become in the last 10 years or so.
The movie told a really good story, but there were a couple problems I had. One of them is that, I thought Alvin was supposed to be the chipmunk that constantly gets into trouble? Well, you didn't really feel that while watching the movie. Theodore and Simon misbehaved just as often.
Also, while I was laughing at many of the jokes, I felt it could have been even funnier, especially since the guy from My Name is Earl played Dave.
Besides that, the movie delivered with adventure, excitement and everything else that makes a great family movie.
This would make a really good Christmas present. No, it's not just a Christmas movie- you can watch it over and over many times throughout the year.
Customer Rating: Summary: KIDDIE MOVIE
Comment: Alvin and the Chipmunks
THIS MOVIE IS ALSO FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER FOR CHRISTMAS. I ALSO KNOW THIS ONE WILL BE JUST AS GOOD AS "THE SIMPSON MOVIE" I KNOW SHE WILL LOVE BOTH OF THESE MOVIES. THE SHIPPING AND SERVICE WAS EXCELLENT!
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Customer Rating: Summary: The Chipmunks Are Back, Garble, Garble!
Comment: Years ago every Christmas season there would be a hit holiday song that would be played everywhere. One year it was Alvin and the Chipmunks. Hollywood loves to recycle pop culture because most of its moguls lack even a modicum of creativity or originality so the long-ago Christmas chipmunks (the three of them) are unleashed again in this mindless movie.
It seems like it's for kids, but the path toward success in the music business seems like an adult theme to me. It's a mixing of adult ambitions and themes with some cute animal characters. I think kids will enjoy it because the chipmunks are always creating a mess and mayhem in the movie, defying adult authority. But it seems to me that a real kids' movie should deal more with fantasy and less with a quest for materialistic success.
I couldn't understand the words of the chipmunks years ago when they were singing the Christmas song, and I couldn't understand much of what they said in this movie. Either they were really talking chipmunk or else a foreign language; whatever it is, to me they are incomprehensible. I don't think it matters because the dialogue is inane anyway. Turn on you English subtitles to find out what they are saying--if you really care.
Giving animals human traits, humanizing them (anthropomorphism) is as old as storytelling. This appeals to kids because then the animals can seem like friends, toys, or pets.
I saw this DVD in Blue Ray, and the colors were gaudy and flamboyant, wildly way too colorful and bright. It gave everything a fake look, but maybe it gave it a fairy tale appearance.
I believe kids will enjoy the movie, and it's harmless fun.
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