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Alvin and Chipmunks

I wanted Alvin and Chipmunks last week. It's a mix of CGI and live action film, is a lightweight, modestly pleasing family comedy. It is sweetness, energy and silliness that will likely please its pre-teen younger target audience while never fully losing adults who can remember the early days when all of the Chipmunks.

The film is directed by Tim Hill and produced by Bagdasarian Productions, New Regency Productions, and 20th Century Fox. The film has recieved extremely negative reviews from movie critics, but has proved to be a huge financial success, making over $210 million to date in North America alone and nearly $330 million to date in total worldwide reciepts.

"THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO ROSS BAGDASARIAN,SR. WHO WAS CRAZY ENOUGH TO INVEBT THREE SINGING CHIPMUNKS NEARLY FIFTY YERS AGO." This words were dispalyed at the end of the film, make me think of the TV cartoon shows I have watched when I was a child. It bring back so many childhood memories for me.

Altough the plot of the film hasn't innovated, the cute character design and fantastic soundtrack will inject the new energy for this film. In any case, I think it is a good animated film.


Alvin and the Chipmunks is a five-time Grammy Award-winning animated music group, created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958.The group consists of three singing animated chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, impressionable sweetheart. The trio is "managed" by their human "father" and confidant, David Seville.

The voices of the group were all performed by Bagdasarian, who sped up the playback to create higher pitched, squeaky voices. This oft-used process was also not entirely new to Bagdasarian, who had also used it for a previous novelty song project, "The Witch Doctor", but it was so unusual and well executed it earned the "trio" two Grammy Awards for engineering. Although the characters were fictional, they did release a long line of "real" albums and singles, with "The Chipmunk Song becoming a number-one hit single in the United States. Since Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.'s death in January 16, 1972, their voices were performed by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and Janice Karman in all subsequent incarnations except for the 2007 CGI/live-action film adaptation, when they were voiced by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney respectively.

posted by michelle @ 21:41