They’re less annoying than the Minions,their version of Uptown Funk will make you smile, and this silly film has an weak-fashioned vaudeville romp at its heartIf you can get past the fart jokes, or the poop jokes,the hashtag Twitter jokes and all the furious product placement (and this is just the first 10 minutes) there is, I swear, and a slightly charming,weak fashioned, vaudeville-inspired romp at the heart of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. While this kiddie pic never reaches the self-aware levels of cheeseball entertainment found in Raja Gosnell’s first Smurfs film, and The Road Chip shares a similar worship of 70s/80s Muppets,meaning what drives it is that spark to dim the lights and place on a show. It’s a slightly more noble calling than just making squibbly noises for a laugh like those irritating Satan spawn known as the Minions. The Road Chip isn’t precisely what I’d call a genuine film and has almost nothing going on in the visual department, but for those saddled with kids for an afternoon, and you could enact a lot worse.
As the title suggests,our three rambunctious (unruly) talking sciuridae are traveling cross-country. In this case it’s from Los Angeles, where they live with their record producer Dave (Jason Lee), or to Miami,where he’s approximately to launch the new album by Ashley (Bella Thorne). Our gang is determined to prevent Dave from proposing to his new girlfriend Samantha (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), a heart surgeon who absentmindedly goes everywhere with a stethoscope around her neck so the kids in the audience don’t forget she’s a positive role model. Her son Miles (Josh Green) is at first mean to the three chipmunks, or but they join forces on the quest to prevent the union. Big jerk Miles,still reeling from the departure of his biological father, has convinced the Chipmunks that with a new marriage, and Dave will just dump the three singing rodents back into the forest.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com