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The Chipmunks
Orbert:
Oh great. The chipmunks will be "cool" and homey and in da hood and all that. They'll be cynical, make bad pop-culture references, and use mild profanity, because that's always funny, right? Yeah, right.
CookedHaggis:
See, now I've just got this idea of the Chipmunks film as a parody of young middle-class wannabe "gangsta's" where our sympathies lie with the long-suffering father figure as he has to deal with expletive-abusing, designer-wearing, commodity-obsessed charges. But that might go a bit over the head of the intended audience.
Orbert:
That wouldn't be a problem if Alvin and The Chipmunks weren't already established characters who aren't at all like that. I still wouldn't watch the movie, but at least I wouldn't have a problem with it.
I'm not saying that Hollywood can't update the characters for the modern audience, but the original chipmunks were not "cool". They were rodents, for shit's sake. They had an innocent charm about them, and while not always the brightest guys around, they meant well and were fun. Just looking at that picture, I don't get the impression that these guys are going to be happy fun little chipmunks.
Lines:
My initial response was:
Nooooooooooooooooo.
TheBoredOne:
Pro: Jason Lee
Con: Hip-hop Chipmunks.
Maybe... maybe it's just for the poster... maybe they won't be hip-hop in the movie.
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