Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: failed to live its hype

Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: failed to live its hype

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is the third instalment of the popular franchise, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and was released on December 16^th, 2011. Regardless of opening to number two spot in the box office, the
movie received poor ratings and mostly unfavourable reviews.

In this sequel, the Chipmunks who along with the Chipettes (three female counterparts of the Chipmunks) go on a cruise trip with their father type manager, Dave Seville. Their chaotic childish behaviour gets them ship wrecked on
the Isles of Scilly, a tropical paradise) where everyone gets lost. Dave sets to find the Chipmunks and everyone soon discovers that their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

Jason Lee is reprising his role as Dave while Justin Long, Mathew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney feature the voices of Alvin, Simon and Theodore. The film is directed by Mike Mitchell and produced by Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice
Karman. 

The $80 million budgeted movie received mostly poor reviews. Review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes report only 13 percent of critics gave it a positive review, based on reviews from 68 critics, with an average rating of 3.5 out of
10. The site’s general consensus states, “Lazy, rote, and grating, Chipwrecked is lowest-common-denominator family entertainment that’s strictly for the very, very, very young at heart.”

IMDB gave the film a score of 3.2 out of 10 based on 2,125 users, while Metacritic gave it a score of 24 out of 100 based on 19 reviews.

Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle gave it a score of one out of four and said, “It’s an uninspired and instantly forgettable film. But it completely succeeds by its own standards: an 87-minute rainy-day distraction
that will probably make a zillion dollars.”

New York Post’s top critic, Lou Lumenick, gave the flick zero out of four and declared, “You usually have to go to an Adam Sandler movie, or the Quad Cinema, to see something as incompetently made as ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’.”
 

All in all, third outing of the series is a huge disappointment for most of its fans.

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Posted by Muhammad Basit Khan on Dec 31 2011. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry