Easy resolutions pop up and there's no real drama, with flat jokes, overacting and wasted comic-talent voices slathered between the plot's thin slices-of-strife like cheap peanut butter.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:16
Rotten:61
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: This Squeakquel may entertain the kiddies, but it's low on energy and heavily reliant on slapstick humor.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Genre: Childrens
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $212,156,137
Synopsis: The new film, starring the Chipmunks and the Chipettes, follows in the footsteps of the original's blockbuster holiday 2007 release.
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Reviews for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
I must be the old stinker. I think that if you're activities cause property damage, you're a vandal. It's not cute to behave irresponsibly if the result is thousands of dollars in repairs. That's just destruction.
01/09/10
Alvin must be the most unsympathetic lead in any kiddie franchise, and having him do squeaked-up De Niro impersonations doesn’t help.
01/05/10
A truly terrible, utterly witless comedy.
01/05/10
In a crowded cinema, this is every post-pubescent's nightmare.
01/05/10
A kids' movie with few laughs for the older viewer.
01/05/10
This desperate sequel – sorry "squeakquel" – is such a blatant cash-in that the producers might as well have gone straight round to young viewers' houses and stolen their piggybanks.
01/05/10
They call this the “squeakquel” and that’s about all you’ll want to know about a film that remorselessly pulls all the levers of the first highly successful box-office attraction.
01/05/10
Like the Three Stooges, McHale's Navy, and the Brides of Funkenstein, the Chipmunks are a true pop-cultural sleeper sensation.
01/04/10
... silly but harmless ...
12/30/09
Blending CGI and live action, this "squeakquel" to the witless 2007 kids' film proves just how dangerous such technology is when placed in the wrong hands.
12/30/09
Yes, it's probably a good film for children. But when films far more sophisticated and enjoyable like "Up" or "Where the Wild Things Are" come out, a film like this merely seems trivial.
12/29/09
Kids will love it but adults will squirm. A little squeak from the chipmunks goes a long way.
12/29/09
Richard Widmark is dead but his spirit improbably lives on in this 'squeakquel,' in which the allegedly adorable harmonizing rodents cause an old lady in a wheelchair to roll down a steep flight of stairs...
12/28/09
The film as a whole is only marginally less entertaining than playing roadkill Frisbee.
12/28/09
Fractious, family-friendly and funky, it's nevertheless cutsey charmless. Expect an inevitable Threequel.
12/27/09
There are worse forms of torture.
12/26/09
An unsatisfying sequel to a very mediocre first film. It is so unfunny and painful that I actually saw people walking out of the free screening I attended.
12/26/09
a half-assed, low-budget enterprise trading on children's endless appetite for talking animals
12/25/09
Hollywood used to know that a good children's movie is one that can be enjoyed by the whole family. It's not just about keeping the 6-year-olds in their seats.
12/25/09
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