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Alvin and the Chipmunks: CGI, hip-hop, and coming this Xmas.
jungleroomx
It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered User regular
It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered User regular
Does this need words, or will just the image suffice to blow your minds?
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Director:Tim Hill
Writers:Ross Bagdasarian (creator)
Don Rhymer
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Release Date:14 December 2007 (USA) more
Genre:Animation
Tagline:Here comes trouble. more
Plot Outline:Based on the 1950s cartoon series about a music group of chipmunks comprised of mischievous group leader Alvin; tall and quiet Simon; and chubby, impressionable Theodore.
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Status:Post-production
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Status Updated:28 June 2007
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God dammit.
It is.
It fucking is.
LIES! FILTHY FRACKING LIES!
It's too stupid to possibly be real.
It's on IMDB.
It's real.
alvin & the chipmunks was a horrible, horrible cartoon show from the 80s based on horrible horrible characters created by a guy from the 50's who realized you could make voices sound higher by spinning your LP's really fast. even when i watched the damn thing when i was like 5 i remember thinking, "i HATE this, why is tv doing this to me?"
i know that LOL 70'S AND 80'S NOSTALGIA is super big right now but WHHHHYYYY??!? 99.9% of the cartoons and shows came out of the 70's and 80's were utter horseshit, and i don't know why gen xers want to shove this crap down our throats like they've been doing.
underdog?
garfield?
scooby doo?
dudley doright?
rocky and bullwinkle?
josie and the pussycats?
brady bunch?
CHRIST THIS STUFF WAS MOSTLY TERRIBLE WHY MAKE IT AGAIN? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
edit: i'll give you transformers, but the only reason why it works is because it's a concept that you can go ridiculously over the top with the kind of technology that we've got today. try and make that movie ten or 15 years ago and it crashes and burns
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I mean, this is the kind of crap you see in movies about cash-ins. I hope this bombs so hard that anyone involved with the creation of this never works again. Yes, even you Mr. Lee. I understand artists need to eat too, but this crap?
The posters are in theaters. Unless this is an expensive "Psych!" campaign, it is all too real.
When I saw this a few days back, I wasn't sure what to think. Oh sure, this will suck and just another forgettable blight on the face of the movie industry. If this even has the quality that the two Garfield movies has, I will be surprised.
And like most others, my thoughts immediately raced to, "My precious, precious childhood! Why do you rape it so?!" But then I took a moment to realize that I don't really have a special place in my heart for Alvin and/or the Chipmunks. The only reason I watched it so much as a child was because it was on Nickelodeon often enough, I had no sense of quality at the time, and it was mediocre enough that I didn't see anything wrong with it. And to think about it even further, I'm curious as to how this even became a part of my life. Alvin and the Chipmunks started off as a novelty musical act in the fifties which was popular enough that it was given a short-lived TV show in the early 60s. It should have ended there. Every so often some new Chipmunks special would come out on TV, but by the early 70s the brand was essentially dead (from what I can tell). However! For some unknown reason to me, this IP was resurrected in the 80s. And boy, did it ever smack of the 80s. Alvin was given an updated attitude, and if I recall correctly, at the end of every episode he would jam away on a guitar. And there were now female chipmunk counterparts, too. Alvin's female double was such an 80s girl that I wouldn't be surprised if she died on January 1, 1990.
Again, this is a horrible brand. It was never good. Chipmunks which were four feet tall (on average), could talk and wear clothes (at least they're wearing normal clothes in the poster, but yet no pants), and sang. But for the most part they just dealt with wacky adventures in their day-to-day lives. As much as I want to deride this setup, parts of it are apparent in just about all children's programming. But all I have to do is think back to shows like Rescue Rangers and TMNT to know that there was much better out there at the time. So when I complain about this movie, it is done not because they are updating something from my childhood in a poor way, but because they've chosen a brand name which was second-rate at best and now I have to be reminded of it for the next 6 months.
It was a very sad time for us.
You were suppose to bring quality to the movies, not destroy them completely!
I read it as this at first and thought this was the OPs attempt at being a clever fucker. I'm sure it's not far from the truth.
This is an awful idea.
Thats straight from IMDB. Wish I could take credit.
I would imagine the plot will revolve around the heavy dependency musical artists have with drugs and sex, and leap directly into a portrait of everything that is wrong with pop culture.
Or it could be derivative crap. Could go either way at this point.
Uh... think back harder. The 80's Turtle cartoon was fucking atrocious. If you think it wasn't, that's because you haven't watched it since you were 9.
He could be this film's only saving grace, but I don't see how, unless they call him a tracer and he kicks their teeth down their throats.
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But at least it was entertaining. I can understand little kids liking Turtles who are mutated into teenage ninjas. It's ridiculous, but at least there's something there. Alvin and the Chipmunks never had anything going for it ever outside of a kitschy record or two in the 50s. The fact that it was brought back in the 80s was because of people who remembered it fondly in the 50s and 60s. Now that it's being brought back in the 00s is because of people who remember it from the 80s. It's fucking second generation nostalgia by now. This is Simulacrum run amok with none of the charm or anything interesting whatsoever. Each time they just pile on what is vaguely popular at the time, and have yet to do it well.
tl;dr Ninja turtles beat the snot out of singing chipmunks on all levels
I would see this movie if Stephen Colbert were in it. I probably wouldn't survive it, though.
"Straighten" out?
I would think that would have the opposite effect...
I think you're confusing the effects of being fucked in the ass and getting hit in the back of the head with a shovel.
NO
brand new, CGI Care Bears
I'm not sure if you guys missed the reference or not.
But getting fucked in the ass might make him rethink his current career path, seeing how he's slowly become a whore on the scale of Brendan Fraser, another awesome actor that went the path of crappy children movies.