Save your money for something good and enjoyable

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

"Chip an' Dale" is a 7-minute cartoon from almost 70 years ago. It is a Walt Disney production and was nominated for an Oscar back then losing to a Warner Bros. entry. The title characters in here fight back when Donald takes their home in order to make a nice warm fire. Snow fights ensue. Unfortunately, I have seen many funnier Walt Disney shorts from that era and I was not too well entertained watching this little movie. I cannot agree with the Academy Award nomination, maybe because I am not the biggest Chip/Dale fan in general. But also Donald was underwhelming. The animation, however, was outstanding. There is no denying that. But that is not enough. i do not recommend this little film here. Thumbs down.

This is one of the first Disney cartoon featuring Chip N'Dale. Here, they meet Donald Duck, which isn't a pleasurable first meeting as Donald chopped down a small log so he could light a fire in the bitter cold, unaware that the chipmunks were living inside.Donald is my favorite Disney character, so I don't like him being the brunt of all bad luck all the time. But, he does have some funny moments in this cartoon, especially where the snowball splashes in his face. The chipmunks' fast-talk was hilarious at times. Chip plays the more thoughtful and know-it-all chipmunk, while Dale is the more goofy and clueless one.I remembered watching this cartoon short as part of a video cartoon short compilation when I was a kid. I've always thought the cartoon shorts were funny when I was a kid, but became a little more partial toward Donald Duck as he became my favorite character and Chip N'Dale became more annoying. But, it's still a fun cartoon for the kids and good for any true fans of the chipmunks.Grade B-

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.CHIP AN' DALE make Donald's life miserable after he cuts down their tree for firewood.The story & animation are routine, but the film is significant in that it is the first in which the Chipmunks are named, hence the title. Clarence "Ducky" Nash supplies Donald's voice; the little rodents are often unintelligible.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.

This short, nominated for an Oscar in 1947, is probably the best Chip 'n Dale cartoon done. It helps that Donald Duck is the antagonist, giving the cartoon personality the title characters largely lack. The Warner Brothers creation of The Goofy Gophers is far more lively and entertaining for me.Worth watching