Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
Country: US
Technical: col 92m
Director: Tim Hill
Cast: Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson
Synopsis:
A songwriter down on his luck gets a lucky break when a trio of singing chipmunks moves into his house and he arranges their song to nationwide success. But his producer has ideas of making a fast buck before the craze runs out of steam, and lures the chipmunks away from their adoptive 'dad'.
Review:
Commercially reasonably successful family film based on a fifty year-old premise. Its attempts to pander to its adult audience by having the furry creatures spout no end of lines whose cultural references could not possibly come within their ambit are excruciating in the extreme, and the film subscribes to a take-it-for-granted materialism we should hardly be reinforcing in the minds of the next generation. The fact that the little mites find its silliness ever so engaging of course renders criticism redundant.
Country: US
Technical: col 92m
Director: Tim Hill
Cast: Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson
Synopsis:
A songwriter down on his luck gets a lucky break when a trio of singing chipmunks moves into his house and he arranges their song to nationwide success. But his producer has ideas of making a fast buck before the craze runs out of steam, and lures the chipmunks away from their adoptive 'dad'.
Review:
Commercially reasonably successful family film based on a fifty year-old premise. Its attempts to pander to its adult audience by having the furry creatures spout no end of lines whose cultural references could not possibly come within their ambit are excruciating in the extreme, and the film subscribes to a take-it-for-granted materialism we should hardly be reinforcing in the minds of the next generation. The fact that the little mites find its silliness ever so engaging of course renders criticism redundant.
Country: US
Technical: col 92m
Director: Tim Hill
Cast: Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson
Synopsis:
A songwriter down on his luck gets a lucky break when a trio of singing chipmunks moves into his house and he arranges their song to nationwide success. But his producer has ideas of making a fast buck before the craze runs out of steam, and lures the chipmunks away from their adoptive 'dad'.
Review:
Commercially reasonably successful family film based on a fifty year-old premise. Its attempts to pander to its adult audience by having the furry creatures spout no end of lines whose cultural references could not possibly come within their ambit are excruciating in the extreme, and the film subscribes to a take-it-for-granted materialism we should hardly be reinforcing in the minds of the next generation. The fact that the little mites find its silliness ever so engaging of course renders criticism redundant.