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Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Plot

During the Chipmunks' benefit concert in Paris, France, Dave (Jason Lee) is badly injured after a falling billboard sends him flying across the stage into electric devices.

After the accident, Dave is rushed to the hospital. Even though he survives, he must stay to recuperate, leaving Dave Aunt Jackie to look after the Chipmunks, while arrangements are also made for them to go to school.

Arriving at the LA airport, the Chipmunks meet up with Jackie, who introduces her grandson, Tobin "Toby" Seville (Zachary Levi). After Jackie falls down a staircase and a luggage trolley crashes into her, she, too, is sent to a hospital, leaving Toby in charge.

Meanwhile, Ian (David Cross) now lives in the basement of JETT Records. A FedEx truck comes around the corner, and a package falls out. Three singing female chipmunks, Brittany (Christina Applegate), Jeanette (Anna Faris) and Eleanor (Amy Poehler), who call themselves the Chipettes, emerge from the package and introduce themselves to Ian. Brittany says that since Ian made the Chipmunks stars, they want to be stars, too. To prove their talent, they sing "Put Your Records On," and Ian hires them.

During their first day at school, Alvin, Simon and Theodore catch the attention of the females in their class. The jocks grow jealous, physically bullying them and resulting in all parties being sent to the Principal Office. There, they discover that the Principal, Dr. Rubin, is a huge fan of the Chipmunks. She consequently asks the Chipmunks to save the school music programme by representing their school in the Battle of the Bands in exchange for not suspending them. The Chipmunks immediately accepts. Meanwhile, when Ian receives the daily newspaper, he is shocked to find the Chipmunks on the front page. After he reads the story, he quickly sends the Chipettes to school (just to get the winning money).

Tension between Alvin and Simon develops as Alvin begins socialising with the jocks of the school, but the one who is most affected is Theodore, who believes he is losing his brothers because they are fighting all the time.

When the Chipmunks meet the Chipettes, they gain crushes on their counterparts, but are soon forced to have a rivalry after discovering that they are with Ian. The Chipmunks and the Chipettes compete against each other in the Battle of the Bands. During lunchtime, Alvin meets up with Brittany, sharing a slightly romantic moment with her until he warns her about Ian past. Brittany leaves, not believing him.

At a concert, the Chipettes sing "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Ian videotapes the Chipettes performance and posts it on YouTube, along with his phone number. The Chipettes win the competition and Ian becomes rich and famous again. Simon and Theodore had been forced to forfeit the competition when Alvin failed to show up, and at home, Simon and Theodore ignore him. The embarrassment is too much for Theodore, causing him to run away to the zoo, where Toby and the boys find and save him. This brings out the best in all four of them and the Chipmunks forgive each other.

Soon, the Chipettes are hired as the opening act at a Britney Spears concert at the Staples Centre. Unfortunately, the concert is on the same night as the school concert, so Ian decides to blow off the battle and make the Chipettes perform at the concert. However, Brittany refuses Ian command to sing without her sisters, so Ian threatens to barbecue them at a restaurant if they don't.

At the school, the Battle of the Bands is approaching. Alvin gets a phone call from Brittany, saying that she and her sisters have been imprisoned in a cage. Alvin races to save them on his motorbike while Simon tells Jeanette how to open the cage on the phone. The Chipettes escape the cage, climb out of the limo, and jump onto Alvin's bike, with Ian in pursuit.

While being chased, Brittany apologizes to Alvin. Ian pursues them with a remote control helicopter, but fails, and Alvin and the Chipettes arrive at the contest just before Simon and Theodore forfeit. All chipmunks sing "We Are Family" and the school wins $25,000.

At the Staples Centre, Ian attempts to impersonate Brittany while singing Single Ladies. He is booed off by the crowd and taken away by the security guards.

Back at the school, The Chipmunks and Chipettes sing hake your Groove Thing and all of the students dance. The Chipmunks go back home with a recovered Dave while Toby goes back home, and the Chipettes are adopted into the family. When Dave wishes them good night and turns the lights off, Alvin turns them back on repeatedly. After Dave trips over a skateboard, Alvin wishes him good night and turns the lights off.

The post credits show the jocks cleaning breaches with Dr. Rubin watching them.

An epilogue shows Ian being thrown into a dumpster backstage by the guards.

Cast

Zachary Levi as Tobin "Toby" Seville

Jason Lee as David "Dave" Seville

David Cross as Ian Hawke

Wendie Malick as Dr. Rubin

Anjelah Johnson as Juliet "Julie" Ortega

Kevin G. Schmidt as Ryan Miller

Justin Long as Alvin Seville the Chipmunk (speaking voice)

Matthew Gray Gubler as Simon Seville the Chipmunk (speaking voice)

Jesse McCartney as Theodore Seville the Chipmunk (speaking voice)

Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. as Alvin Seville the Chipmunk (singing voice)

Steve Vining as Simon Seville the Chipmunk (singing voice)

Janice Karman as Theodore Seville the Chipmunk (singing voice)/The Chipettes (singing voice)

Christina Applegate as Brittany the Chipette (speaking voice)

Anna Faris as Jeanette the Chipette (speaking voice)

Amy Poehler as Eleanor the Chipette (speaking voice)

Chris Warren, Jr. as Xander

Bridgit Mendler as Becca Kingston

Aimee Carrero as Emily

Kathryn Joosten as Aunt Jacklyn "Jackie" Seville

Brando Eaton as Jeremy Smith

Cameos

Quest Crew as Li'l Rosero Dancers

Charice Pempengco as herself

Honor Society as themselves

Eric Bauza as Digger the Gopher

Reception

Critical reception

The film received mostly negative reviews, faring even worse than the first film. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 21% of 76 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 3.9 out of 10. Among Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics", which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 17%, based on a sample of 18 reviews. The site's general consensus is that "This Squeakquel may entertain the kiddies, but it's low on energy and heavily reliant on slapstick humor." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 41 based on 20 reviews.

Some reviews were positive such as Joe Leydon writing for Variety who called it "a frenetic but undeniably funny follow-up that offers twice the number of singing-and-dancing rodents in another seamless blend of CGI and live-action elements." Writing for Common Sense Media, Jeffrey M. Anderson, who awarded the film 3/5 stars, wrote "The songs are fun, the chipmunks are likable, and the movie seems to have its heart in the right place."

Betsy Sharkey of Los Angeles Times commented on Betty Thomas' direction, saying that she brings "a light campy touch as she did in 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly graded the film a C-. Gleiberman wrote in his review with this question: "Will kids eat up this cutely fractious claptrap? Of course they will. They'll eat up whatever you put in front of them. But that doesn't make The Squeakquel good for them." Sue Robinson from Radio Times said that "even if there's little here for older viewers to enjoy, youngsters will love the slapstick action and catchy soundtrack."

After the film had garnered $112 million worldwide at the box office over its first weekend, some critics were disappointed that it was more popular than other movies in wide release aimed at a family audience. Richard Corliss of Time wrote that families "could have taken the cherubs to The Princess and the Frog or Disney's A Christmas Carol, worthy efforts that, together, took in only about a fifth of the Chipmunks' revenue in the same period"

Home media

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Single-disc DVD, Double-disc DVD and Blu-ray will be available in stores on March 30th, 2010.

References

^ Fritz, Ben (2009-12-28). "Holiday box-office take is highest in recent history". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-boxoffice28-2009dec28,0,1741915.story. Retrieved 2010-01-03.

^ "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Box Office". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alvinandthechipmunksii.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-19.

^ "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)". IGN Entertainment. Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alvin_and_the_chipmunks_the_squeakuel/. Retrieved 2010-01-16.

^ "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (Cream of the Crop)". IGN Entertainment. Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alvin_and_the_chipmunks_the_squeakuel/?critic=creamcrop. Retrieved 2009-12-25.

^ "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/alvinandthechipmunks2. Retrieved 2010-01-05.

^ Leydon, Joe (2009-12-20). "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Review". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941806.html. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

^ Anderson, Jeffrey M.. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Movie Review". Common Sense Media. http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/alvin-and-chipmunks-squeakquel. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

^ Sharkey, Betsy (2009-12-23). "'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel' Movie Review". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-squeakquel23-2009dec23,0,7439065.story. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

^ a b Gleiberman, Owen (2009-12-24). "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Movie Review". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20332755,00.html. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

^ Robinson, Sue (2009-12-24). "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel". RadioTimes. http://www.radiotimes.com/servlet_film/com.icl.beeb.rtfilms.client.simpleSearchServlet?searchTypeSelect=5&frn=49201. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

^ Ryan Michael Painter (2009-12-28). "Weekend Box Office Reaction". http://www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=2012967.

^ Scott Mendelson (2009-12-27). "HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Avatar Dominates Record-Breaking Weekend". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-mendelson/avatar-dominates-record-b_b_404452.html. Retrieved 2010-01-24.

^ http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1950527,00.html

External links

Official website

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel at the Internet Movie Database

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel at Box Office Mojo

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel at Rotten Tomatoes

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel at Metacritic

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Films directed by Betty Thomas

1990s

Only You (1992) The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) Private Parts (1997) Dr. Dolittle (1998)

2000s

28 Days (2000) I Spy (2002) John Tucker Must Die (2006) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

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Alvin and the Chipmunks

Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. Janice Karman Randy Miller Steve Vining Ali Dee

Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. Randy Edelman Joe Reisman Jai Winding

Characters

Alvin Simon Theodore David Seville Brittany Jeanette Eleanor

Singles

"The Witch Doctor" "The Chipmunk Song" "Alvin's Harmonica" "Alvin's Orchestra" "Alvin for President" "What's New Pussycat?" "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" "You May Be Right" "Call Me" "We're The Chipmunks" "Beat It" "Macarena" "Bad Day" "Funkytown" "Shake Your Groove Thing" "Hot N Cold" "Stayin' Alive"

Studio albums

Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks Sing Again with The Chipmunks Around the World with The Chipmunks The Alvin Show Christmas with The Chipmunks Christmas with The Chipmunks, Vol. 2 The Chipmunk Songbook The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits The Chipmunks Sing with Children Chipmunks Go-Go The Chipmunks see Doctor Dolittle The Chipmunks Go to the Movies The Very Best of The Chipmunks Chipmunk Punk Urban Chipmunk A Chipmunk Christmas Chipmunk Rock The Chipmunks Go Hollywood Songs from Our TV Shows The Chipmunk Adventure (Soundtrack) The Chipmunks and The Chipettes: Born to Rock Solid Gold Chipmunks Rockin' Through the Decades Soundtrack The Chipmunks Rock the House Chipmunks in Low Places Greatest Hits Here's Looking At Me! A Very Merry Chipmunk When You Wish Upon a Chipmunk Club Chipmunk: The Dance Mixes The A-Files: Alien Songs Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks (Soundtrack) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Christmas with The Chipmunks (2008 reissue) Undeniable Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Television

The Alvin Show (1961-1962) Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983-1991) (Episodes)/(Home video)

Specials

A Chipmunk Christmas (1981) I Love the Chipmunks Valentine Special (1984) A Chipmunk Reunion (1985) Rockin' Through the Decades (1990) Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) Trick or Treason (1994) A Chipmunk Celebration (1994) The Easter Chipmunk (1995)

Films

Animated films

The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)

Direct-to-video films

Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000) Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks (2004)

Live-action films

Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

Media

Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Amazing Computer (1985) Alvin and the Chipmunks (video game) (2007) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (video game) (2009)

Other

Bagdasarian Productions Chipmunk Records The Nutty Squirrels Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin: LIVE Clyde Crashcup

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