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Why. Why I am doing this...OK...I can't hide from this...time to start...Alvin August...


It starts off with three crappy CGI Chipmunks, Alvin played by Justin Long, Simon played by Matthew Gray Gubler, and Theodore played by Jesse McCartney, singing "You Had a Bad Day" until their tree gets chopped down and sent to L.A. after JETT Records ordered it as a Christmas tree. Because, I guess this is a Christmas movie. Now, the CG for the Chipmunks is pretty good, but the redesigns suck and they're way too small. Struggling songwriter and composer David Seville, Jason Lee, engages in a pretty bad exposition scene with his girlfriend, Claire Wilson, Cameron Richardson. His demo is rejected by executive Ian Hawke, his college roommate played by David Cross. David Cross gives out an amazing performance.


So Dave gets vengeance by stealing their muffies! OH, THE KARMA! OH, THE KARM - wait, this is the stupidest revenge I have ever seen in a big budget movie. He wastes the muffins by throwing them in the trash, and he throws out all of his music equipment. The Chipmunks, who snuck into the muffin basket, raid Dave's food cabinet full of product placements and Dave discovers them after Alvin farts in his face. Speaking of which, this entire damn movie is FILLED with immature potty humor. Dave, who is a jerk throughout this entire film, throws them out into the rain. However, once they sing, Dave gains interest in them even though they just FUCKING SANG TO HIM.


Dave then makes a deal with the Chipmunks to sing songs he writes in exchange for shelter. Dave tries to present the Chipmunks to Ian, but they get stage fright. Alvin doesn't have stage fright. After Dave gets fired at his job because the Chipmunks drew Theodore's butt on his charts, Dave gets home to the trashed house. Simon eats Theodore's shit. Yes, I wrote that right...also, they show Alvin eating the crap in the trailer. The Munks ruin Dave's date with Claire, and so, they go to Ian's mansion and get him to sign a deal.


The Chipmunks quickly become internationally successful. When Douchebag Dave, concerned for their well-being, insists that the Chipmunks are too young to handle fame, Ian convinces them that Dave is holding them back. After Dave becomes more of a jackass, the Chipmunks choose to live with Ian, whose only interest is profiting off the Chipmunks’ success. Once the Chipmunks arrive at Ian's mansion, he spoils them with candy and toys, and they set off on a nationwide coast-to-coast tour, in which Ian decides to exploit them by overwork their asses.


With Claire's help, Dave is allowed into the concert; the Chipmunks see Dave and decide to sabotage the show. Ian locks the Chipmunks in a cage and prepares to take them on their European world tour, escaping in his limousine with Dave in pursuit, but the Chipmunks have already escaped into Dave's car, replacing themselves with stuffed animal decoys. They make it back home, Alvin causes the lights to go off, and Dave screams "AAAAAALVIIIIIN!!!" Each and everytime he says it, it sounds pretty sucky.


So yeah, this movie sucks. The plot is stupid, the redesigns are weird, the acting is bland, the voices are just sped up, and of course, POOP JOKES AND POTTY HUMOR. Next, I'll review the Squeakuel - God, help me.


Stinky ass tie-in game i played when i was little, with the most basic rhythm gameplay possible while doing the absolute bare minimum as expected from these titles. Some covers were kinda cool, made me discover R.E.M. For that alone, i'll grant it two stars.

é um jogo de ds bem simpático, não é nada demais mas tbm n é ruim lixo bosta. é divertido ouvir as músicas enquanto tocar no touch, só achei simples demais e nada ambicioso


Ayo this shit BUSSIN bussin, Nickleback Chipmunks? LETS go.

there’s a cover of Blink-182’s 'All the Small Things'

If your parents got you this instead of guitar hero on tour I'm sorry

i got the ds version of this for christmas when i was little and beat it in twenty minutes and cried

If you ever wanted a Guitar Hero game on Nintendo DS that featured horribly chipmunked covers of classic songs, atrocious graphics, and awkward bottom screen controls, then this is for you.

Convinced myself after all these years everyone who had played this game just experienced some group hallucination, like no way this actually existed. At least a couple covers bopped and the gameplay was pretty playable

What kind of game do you imagine Alvin and the Chipmunks to be? The answer is likely a rhythm game. And you'd be correct, the movie is about music after all. And as far as the rhythm games go, this one, at least the Nintendo DS version, is pretty mediocre, though I don't know of many genuinely great rhythm games, so maybe this is par for the course.

The gameplay is pretty standard. Tap one of the speakers at the bottom of the screen when the disc flies through it to score. Build a combo chain and the discs will change their appearance and become inflamed, which doesn't seem safe, but will give you more score. There are also discs that you have to tap and hold, and I'm convinced these discs are the most broken mechanic in the game. It feels like they aren't as lenient to your taps as the normal ones, and I frequently missed them, which honestly feels like the game's fault rather than mine. In one of the songs on Hard, they also started glitching graphically which was odd. Occasionally, there are little challenges, like spinning a record, tracing a line, tapping dots in an order or shouting ALVIN into the system's mic, although you can actually shout any sort of profanity you can think of and it'll still work, which feels like false advertisement, and I'd like to refund all $0 I spent on this game. Anyway, these challenges aren't actually mandatory if you're aiming for the 5 stars, failing them won't give you score and will break the combo, but the game only cares about you missing discs which seals the 5 star deal. At least these challenges add a little bit of variety to the gameplay, because otherwise it's fairly repetitive. The game includes 3 difficulty options, and as you'd expect with every difficulty the songs are tougher, but aren't that difficult. Though it's likely because I'm just that good. Clearly, playing Love Live! School Idol Festival and Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown prepared me for this moment. Playing with 2 styluses also helped. I mean, you can use your fingers for a touch screen, and that's likely intended because the Hard difficulty gets pretty intense. No sane person would spend as much time as I did, but I did actually beat the story mode on all difficulties, as well as two additional songs not present in story mode through Quick Play for the 100% completion. Yes, you basically have to play same 14 songs 3 times on each difficulty to achieve 100% on a save file. You don't actually have to 5 star the songs, as I achieved 4 stars in most of them. However, beating the story mode in just one of the difficulties takes under an hour, which is really short.

Speaking of story mode, it's pretty lacking. It's only about Alvin & Co. climbing up the ranking, and it all revolves around music. No antagonists or anything. There are a few humorous lines at least. Graphically, the game looks decent, although I can't really speak for 3D part at the top, because I was too fixated on the gameplay at the bottom screen, can't let myself get distracted, but it seemed like it looked decent as well. The music is all from the movie as far as I can tell, as a whole the music isn't the best, some songs feature repetitive lyrics, but I can't blame the game for that. The only song that I liked is Christmas Song, and it's likely because it's the only song that I recognised from the movie.

Overall, a pretty mediocre rhythm game that is lacking in terms of content or substance, but otherwise isn't terribly offensive, like many other licensed games.

this is the worst game i've ever played in my entire life (wii)

The Persona Dancing games clearly took influence from this game's UI