All the Halo 3 news that's fit to print | Add to My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Add to: My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Your First Look at Alvin and the Chipmunks 2.0 Posted Jul 5th 2007 4:31PM by Jessica Barnes Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Family Films, Movie Marketing, Remakes and Sequels, Images After seeing the new poster for , I just have to start off by asking, "What the hell has happened to the Chipmunks"? The Movie Blog now has the first look at the one-sheet for the CGI and live action update of Ross Bagdasarian's (a.
k.a. David Seville) original creation, and while I'm up all for modernization (they were created in the 50's after all), I can't help but wonder why they decided to outfit the trio in thug wear.
For God's sake, Simon is wearing what looks like a kangol. Bagdasarian first debuted the Chipmunks all the way back in 1958 under the original name David Seville and the Chipmunks At the time, he had already made a name for himself as the composer of a few novelty hits in the 50's including -- you can even hear an inkling of the Chipmunk voices to come in the "ooh ee ooh aah aah" portion of that song. Eventually, a cartoon was based on the "group" ( ) and Alvin and the Chipmunks was born.
There was also a cartoon series that was created in 83' and ran until 1991 -- although I think most of us could have done without the Chipettes. Back in March, Monika broke the unfortunate news for Jason Lee fans that he had joined the cast as the put-upon manager/father David, who is for some inexplicable reason the guardian of three singing rodents. The movie was directed by Tim Hill, who you might remember was also responsible for -- and that really isn't making me feel better about the whole idea.
Since this is a family film, it's no surprise that Fox has chosen December 14th as a release date -- tis' the season for family fare.
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