"Mouse Lai Bao": Chipmunk on the star line

Wiley 2022-03-22 09:02:10

Chipmunk, chipmunk, I'm very ashamed. I didn't know the name of this animal until I watched the film. After checking it, it was a squirrel. It is estimated that the pattern on the back is special and it is easier to recognize.

This is a coming-of-age story about the short-lived artist careers of three lovely young chipmunks, both brilliant and confused. It's nothing more than losing yourself in vanity, ignoring people who really care about them, and discovering the beauty of life only after overdrafting. If such a story is used in a live-action version, it is estimated that it will be drowned in saliva. How can you endure the old-fashioned and boring plot. But with three chipmunks who are not afraid of strangers and can't keep quiet, it will be much more fun. Their trouble-making skills are gigantic and even hateful, but their cute and young behaviors full of humanity can't help but laugh. .

I have never liked the combination of cartoons and live-action mode. The animated characters can be designed as they please, but the state of the real people cannot be faked. It is quite awkward to have the actors face the nothingness and imagine what the other party might look like, and then cooperate with them to do the actions and say the lines. You can always find a lot of dissonance in the final film. The expression of the real person is unnatural, the movements are stiff, and the slightly rough production can even make the animation and the real person not fit together. And the combination of the two, it is difficult to have a good story, it is just these types of films, hate to like, evil to fun. Fortunately, there are not many films, it can be seen that it is not mainstream, and the audience is also very picky.

Maybe we don't know much about these three chipmunks. In Laomei, they are ancient characters of more than half a century. Although the plot is mediocre, it also attracted a lot of box office. Recalling the previous two "Garfield" films, which were also live-action plus animation and comic book adaptations, they were not recognized, especially the second film was bleak at the box office. To be honest, in comparison, I still prefer "Garfield". Maybe this is the influence of my childhood. After all, I am familiar with this cheap cat.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks quotes

  • [first lines]

    Alvin (singing voice)Simon (singing voice)Theodore (singing voice): [a capella] Where is the moment we needed the most/You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost/They tell me your blue skies fade to gray/They tell me your passion's gone away/And I don't need no carryin' on/Cause you had a bad day/You're taking one down/You sing a sad song just to turn it around/You say you don't know/You tell me don't lie/You work at a smile and you go for a ride/You had a bad day/You've seen what you like/And how does it feel for one more time/You had a bad day/You had a bad day/

    Alvin: [pushing the last of the acorns into the tree] It's going, It's going.

    [gets sucked in and falls out with all of the acorns]

    Simon: And it's gone.

    Alvin: [from inside the tree] Whatever!

    Theodore: Maybe we should take a break.

    [an acorn hits him on the head]

    Theodore: Ouch!

    Alvin: That's it! I can't take this anymore! I can't! I give up! I'm sick of struggling for survival! Competing with gophers and earthworms, and that loser sparrow who always takes my nuts! And I'm especially sick of this stupid, stupid... *tree!*

    [the sound of a buzzsaw is heard, and the tree shakes]

    Simon: Whoa! What's happening?

    Theodore: Guys! I think he made it angry!

  • Alvin: [tries to open a bottle of champange] Stupid cork! Doesn't - Whoa!

    [Cork flies into a glass door cabinet breaking it along with some of the glasses in it]

    Alvin: Yikes, Ha-ha! Oops!

    David Seville: Not gonna say it.

    Alvin: Uh-oh!

    Simon: Good grief.

    [Champagne spills all over the floor creating a large puddle]

    Claire: Are you still not gonna say it?

    David Seville: [tries very hard not to] Nope!

    [Champagne puddle becomes a flood that hits a plug outlet, causing a blackout in Dave's house]

    David Seville: I'm gonna say it. AAAAAALLLLLLVVVVVVIIIIIINNNNNN!

    Alvin: OKAY!