Cast: Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson, Jane Lynch, Veronica Alicino, Allison Karman, Tiara Parker, Kira Verrastro, Beth Riesgraf, Adriane Lenox, Don Tiffany, Frank Maharajh, Kevin Symons
Release year: 2007
Genres: comedy, family, fantasy
Blurb: Struggling songwriter Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainiac Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.
Omg yeah I love that movie that’s live action but uses CGI to create some actually really cute anthropomorphic, english-speaking animals with interesting abilities! You know, the one that’s a sequel, it features Uptown Funk, a crazy man chasing the main characters across an incredibly large geographic area, the animal character(s) have been adopted by one or more adult humans, plus enemies to found family, specifically in a brotherly role. Also, of course, there’s a wedding! Also someone gets hit by a car. Yeah I just love that movie! :)
I’m never going to be able to stop thinking about how each of the movies in the original aatc cgi trilogy were each better than the one before them. like oh my fucking god okay they all had an important focus; aatc 1 was the development of Dave’s parental relationship with the boys, the squeakquel introduces the girls and explores the concept of feeling “out of your element” in terms of being fundamentally different from your peers as well as trying out new experiences you aren’t yet used to, and I’m going to fucking explode okay chipwrecked’s character arcs for Alvin and Simon are literally phenomenal okay. no LISTEN to me alright Simon being BIT BY A BUG and losing all of his inhibitions and acting the way he has subconsciously always wanted to act is literally so fucking mindmelting to me I love it so much. and Alvin having to step in and take over as the responsible one for a change is so !!!!!!!!! so very!!!!!!!! I don’t even KNOWWW okay but it’s so well-done. and not just those two, but the girls get such solid characterizations as well; it’s such a good movie 😭❤️💕✨