Good concept, poorly executed.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I've seen the first one and its okay. I chuckled a few times and it was entertaining and cute. I've seen the third one and its not that great. But not bad. It was watchable and entertaining. But this one flat out sucks. Its not funny, its dumb, its not even entertaining. The chipmunks go to high school? Ya high school. Makes no sense right. And the whole movie they just try to save the schools music program against the girl chipmunks. Which were really annoying. The characters suck, its unfunny (didn't laugh once), there's a bunch of stupid cameos that kids wouldn't understand, and is by far the worst of the three. Watch the other two, there fine. But this one sucks.

In 1958, struggling songwriter Ross Bagdasarian found himself a hit by increasing the speed of the recording, making his voice sound funny. With this, he create three cartoon characters to fit the high pitch: Alvin, Simon and Theodore, The Chipmunks. They were a big hit in the '50s, and once again, a big hit in the 1980s with a TV cartoon series. In 2007, the series once again got remade. This time live-action with some CGI effects. Although the first movie did re-spark an interest in the Chipmunks franchise, many fans weren't exactly impressed with the movie and its 2009 & 2011 sequels. As much as I hate the 2007 remake of 'Alvin and Chipmunks', this Squeakquel was downright insufferable. In the movie, Alvin (Voiced by Justin Long) is downright more sociopathic in his behavior, while Simon (Voiced by Matthew Gray Gubler) is a dumb down and Theodore (Voiced by Jesse McCartney) is just a stupid punchline to be abused and made fun of. The first movie has a story/moral in which the three chipmunks realize that fame and fortune is not all it is cracked out to be, and leave the seemingly superficial lifestyle, and the money, behind to enjoy an apparently better down-to-earth life. Yet, it's forgotten here, because the movie starts off, how very self-centered, they became. The whole plot feels rushed because there are so many plot elements to throw into the mix here that it never falls into a cohesive storyline. It's a plot that make little to no sense, as the Chipmunks are forced to go to school. I understand, the writers were trying to adapt the old cartoon, but the thing you have to remember is that in the cartoon, the anthropomorphic chipmunks there, were as tall as most human children their age and look more human that its couther parts here. That allowed the show to get away with having singing anthropomorphic chipmunks live like normal children. Here they are regular sized chipmunks so that same idea simply doesn't work. If they were to go to school, wouldn't it be for anthropomorphic animals. Another thing, if they were allow to join a human school; I really doubt their age in chipmunks years match that of a human high school student. Wouldn't they be in middle school? Another thing about the weak plot, is the premise of saving the school music program. The whole music program is barely establish and we never get the why it will be shut down, unless the school wins a music competition. We, the audience, never know why it's important to the school. It's not like the Chipmunks are helping or training any of the students in the music program to win the competition. When you think about it, there isn't any music students established at all. Who knows, if there were a music program in the first place, before the Chipmunks arrived. Added to this stupid premise is the presence of the previous film villain, Ian Hawke (David Cross) whom plans to use a female version of the Chipmucks to steal the Chipmunks' fame by entering the singing group into the same school music competition. The Chipettes made out of Eleanor (Voiced by Amy Poehler), Jeanette (Voiced by Anna Faris), and Brittany (Voiced by Christina Applegate) really come out of nowhere in the film, and serve nothing, but love interested. They are so hit by the pitch shifting you can't even tell them apart. I don't even, know why they couldn't use voice actors for them. In the cartoon series, they are supposed to rivals to the Chipmunks, but you never see them go one on one, here. The Chippettes in real life were created for the sole purpose of allowing Ross Bagdasarian to make covers of popular girls' songs in addition to the guys' songs covered by the Chipmunks. So the Chippettes are, in essence, the Chipmunks with girl parts. Very hollow characters. There barely any good female leads here. Despite being Dave's love interest, and a key character in the first film, Claire is nowhere to be found here. This is mainly because Cameron Richardson refused to reprise the role, as she strongly disliked being in the first film. The supporting characters that did show up in the film are just awful. Jason Lee is barely in the film as Dave Seville. Zachary Levi as Toby was awful as a Dave's replacement. His sub-plot romantic with the teacher was just not needed, and doesn't help move the plot. Everything about his performance was underwhelming. You really don't get to see the great conflict that Alvin has with Dave in Toby. It was one of the things that made the series stand out! The jokes are mostly misses than hits. The obligatory fart joke, the embarrassingly inaccurate racial stereotypes, and slapstick humor were all badly delivered. Even the cultural pop references don't even make much sense, because the film references a lots of nearly unknown shows that children probably don't watch, like Meerkat Manor or NASCAR on FOX, with the cameo Digger the NASCAR gopher. The film is disturbing, as it already portray pedophilia and bestiality like themes with human beings lusting for naked under aged chipmunks. Add, references to 1991's Silent of the Lambs and 1976's Taxi Driver, and you got a movie that makes you wonder if this movie is truly a kid movie. Depending who you are, the pop songs used in the film could seem brutally murder or watered down. It didn't bug me, too much. The 3D gimmick kinda did its job, but the whole CG & the unrealistic speed it's moving at, makes it hard to watch in 3D at times. Overall: It's nearly unwatchable, even for kids. Instead of watching this movie, go back and re-watched the 1980s cartoons. You'll get more fun out of that, than this.

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The movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, presented itself as a "hyped" success. The reason the film was the #3 grossing film on its opening weekend was primarily due to children who were just "psyched" to see the movie, just because everyone was talking about it, or because they had seen numerous advertisements about it.Despite bad comments from critics and children alike, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel was a fairly good film from an objective point of view. Despite the remarks, the film was true to its ambitions and goals. Considering its budget of a mere $37,000,000, the film's position on the charts was up to par with films whose budgets were multi-fold of that.Looking into the individual elements of the film, the film is a perfect blend of CGI (computer-generated imagery) and live action. I may sound quite mundane saying this, but the Chipmunks in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and its predecessor Alvin and the Chipmunks were very realistic. I think this is what lent the greatest strength to this film.One of the few flaws in this film were the special effects. Out of the entire film,the only noticeable error error was in the "rescue" scene where Alvin flies on a scooter to go save the Chipettes from the evil record company owner, Ian Hawke. When Alvin is on the scooter with the Chipettes, a few high angle shots of the roads and buildings below are shown. During these shots, it is obvious that the scooter is stationary, and that only the surroundings are moving. This slight flaw takes away some thrill from that scene.Besides the flaws and comments, I really enjoyed the film. Themes such as light adventure and "puppy love" were well presented in the film. LOL. To me, the ending of the movie was quite exhilarating. I engrossed in the film towards the end, maybe even more than I would be while watching an action packed film such as Avatar.