Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel is an CGI/Live-Action film, starring Jason Lee, David Cross, Zachary Levi and the voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate and Amy Poehler. The film features Alvin and the Chipmunks and their female counterparts, The Chipettes. It was directed by Betty Thomas and distributed by 20th Century Fox, with Regency Enterprises and Bagdasarian Productions. It was originally scheduled to be premiered on March 19, 2010, but it was moved up to a Christmas 2009 release instead and later a December 23, 2009 release date in the US and December 21, 2009 release date in the UK. However. it was released on December 23, 2009 in Australia.  

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Summary

During the Chipmunks' "Save the Music" benefit concert, sponsored by VH1, in Paris, Dave Seville (Jason Lee) tells Alvin (Justin Long) to take it easy, and that the concert "is not all about you", but Alvin has a difficult time listening. He then jumps on top of a scaffolding, and causes an "Alvin" billboard to fall. He warns Dave to look out, but it sends Dave flying across the stage, yelling "ALVIN!", into some electric devices. After the accident, he is rushed to the hospital. Although he survives, he must stay for a few days to recover. The nurse gives him a sedative that will make him fall asleep in a minute, so he tells his boys that he's leaving his Aunt Jackie (Kathryn Joosten) in charge of the Chipmunks until he returns. Also, he tells Alvin, Simon (voiced by Matthew Gray Gubler), and Theodore (voiced by Jesse McCartney) that while he's away, he wants them to have a normal childhood, and that he has also made arrangements for them to go to school. When Dave goes to sleep, a woman comes ro escort the Chipmunks home, but Alvin doesn't want to leave Dave, so he runs amok. He messes with the hospital bed, causing Dave to go up and down, Theodore to crash into a monitor, and Simon to fall in the sink, but a doctor injects sedative into Alvin's rump, and he sings "Daydream Believer" until he is fast asleep. The doctor tells the woman that, for her sake, Alvin is asleep for the entire flight. Simon suggests that he inject Alvin again, just in case.

The Chipmunks land at the airport, where they meet up with Aunt Jackie, who introduces her grandson Toby (Zachary Levi), a former high school dropout. He is playing on a Nintendo DS, paying no attention to them. Toby then accidentally knocks Jackie's wheelchair down some stairs while getting the boys' luggage, and an airport luggage trolley crashes into her. She is also sent to the hospital, so Toby is left in charge.

Back at the house, they have fun eating "Cheese Balls" (Alvin also sings a slightly different version of "Stayin' Alive") and spinning in a kitchen appliance, singing "You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record)", but they end up in a hooked pan holder. Dave calls them, and Simon and Alvin answer, but when Theodore joins them, he causes a pan to fall, and Dave wants to know what's going on. Simon warns Alvin to not stress him out (so Dave can come home soon), so Alvin lies that Jackie is making them a five course meal, but when Dave finds out he cannot speak to her, he becomes suspicious, so Alvin can do nothing but hang up, causing Dave to yell "ALVIN!" and his stress monitor to beep wildly.

Little does Dave know, on their first day at school, the Chipmunks feel uncomfortable with all the bullies around, when Ryan, one of the bullies, gives Simon a swirlie. The boys have fun being babysat by Toby, mainly because he is basically a big kid himself. Theodore tries to bond with Toby but Toby is always either ignoring him or being short towards him.

Meanwhile, Ian Hawke (David Cross) the Rude selfish greedy soundtrack-editor now lives in the basement of Jett Records. But, a FedEx mail comes to the building and a package falls out. And, three singing female chipmunks, The Chipettes, Brittany (Christina Applegate), Jeanette (Anna Faris), and Eleanor (Amy Poehler) come out of it and want to be famous like the Chipmunks. So they sing Put Your Records On to make Ian adopt them. He does, telling them that the Chipmunks ran away from him and left him broken-hearted, to make the Chipettes not trust them. He lets the Chipettes stay in his apartment (in actuality, breaking into a model suite) and have their own dressing mirrors. Meanwhile, the Chipmunks enter the school concert to win $25,000 and save the school's music program. The tension between Alvin and Simon continues to build as Alvin hangs out with the jocks of the school, but the one who is most affected is Theodore who believes he is losing his brothers with them fighting all the time. The Chipmunks meet the Chipettes and fall in love, until they discover they're with Ian. The Chipettes sing Hot N Cold to get Dr Rubin, the school principal to enter them in the contest. The Chipmunks and the Chipettes compete against each other in a Battle of the Bands. Alvin warns Brittany about what Ian did to him and his brothers, but she doesn't believe Alvin. Alvin then humiliates Simon in front of everyone when one of the jocks tricks him into thinking he's now the school Litter Moniter and he ends up being thrown into the dumpster. At the concert, the Chipettes win after Simon and Theodore forfeit the competition because Alvin failed to show up (he hung out with the football team instead). Eager to get rich, Ian videotapes the Chipettes performance and posts it on YouTube, along with his phone number. Finally, Alvin shows up only to see that everyone's gone. Brittany says to Alvin that he doesn't care about anyone but himself and that she never wanted to win the way Ian was making her. When Alvin returns home, Simon and Theodore pretend they're sleeping and ignore him. The embarrassment is too much for Theodore to take who runs away to the zoo. When Toby and the boys find him and save him from an eagle, it brings out the best in all of them and the Chipmunks all forgive each other and go back to "One for all, and three for one". (As Theodore put it)

Soon, the Chipettes are hired as the opening act at a Britney Spears concert at the Staples Center. Since the concert is on the same night as the school concert, Ian decides to blow off the battle and force the Chipettes to perform at the concert, threatening to barbecue them at a restaurant if they don't. At the school, Alvin gets a phone call from Brittany, saying that she and her sisters have been locked in a cage. Alvin races to save them on his red motorbike while Simon tells Jeanette how to open the cage on the phone. The Chipettes escape from the cage, climb out of the limo, and they jump onto Alvin's motorbike. (The Chipmunks' cousin, Digger makes a cameo during the chase) While being chased, Brittany apoligizes to Alvin for not listening to him about Ian. Ian pursues them with a R.C. helicopter, but they leap off the motorbike and grab onto the helicopter. Jeanette than snatches the remote and steers the helicopter away from Ian, while the motorbike drives straight into Ian's groin. Simon and Theodore are about to forfeit the concert again, but Alvin and the Chipettes fly into the hall on the helicopter and they all sing We Are Family. Dave then comes back and watches them perform, along with Toby. Meanwhile, Ian dresses up as Brittany, performing in the center alone while people boo him, while the Chipmunks and Chipettes sing Shake Your Groove Thing. Finally, the Chipmunks go back home with Dave, while Toby goes back home. The Chipettes are re-adopted at the boy's request and sleep at the Chipmunks' house where Dave has another injury, tripping over Alvin's skateboard and he yells the famous line "ALVIN!", and Alvin responds with "Okay!" As the credits roll, the screen shows photos of the Chipmunks and Chipettes at the beach, at Christmas, in the kitchen, in the garden, with Barbara Manatee, building a snowman, having pillow fights, make snow angels and forts, drink lots of cocoa, and get a flock of sheep. An epilogue shows Ian being thrown into a dumpster backstage by the guards.

Trailers

The film's teaser premiered with Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. In the trailer, the Chipmunks are seen singing the 20th Century Fox jingle. This trailer premiered in the UK with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

The 2nd teaser premiered on the internet on June 30, 2009, then on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on July 1, 2009. In the trailer, the Chipmunks are seen singing the 20th Cenury Fox's jingle. Afterwards, the Chipmunks are seen at a school, and Alvin says, "Oh, relax! Who's gonna beat singing chipmunks?". Then, to their surprise, they see The Chipettes for the first time and fall in love.

The third and first full trailer premiered online on October 1, 2009.

An international trailer appeared on November 21, 2009. It feautres more clips from the movie, and there are two known versions of it. One features Simon getting hit by a dodgeball, another when Alvin has every time when he looks in a mirror and saw a different reflection, and one more is Theodore is get kidnapped by pirates and put him in jail.

Sneak Peek

The sneak peek is shown only once on Nickelodeon. It shows when they are hiding in the toilet tank and Toby tells them they have to go to school and says what could go wrong on their second day of school.It then shows them in the gym where it is dodgeball day. They hit Simon and Theodore but Alvin manages to catch the ball. There are three deleted scenes: First, Alvin runs home to meet Miss Kitty to help her get her Nacho Cheese Buffalo Chips from the vending machine next to the cookies and no one got her backstage passes to Alvin for his Twippo concert, by the King's palace guards. Next, Simon says that he has to go to the bathroom, he can get out, and move creakly downstairs after the anicent crypt door creaked open in a Seafood restuarant. And finally, Theodore gets to be a kindly Viking who makes crafts - potholders.

Trivia

• When the Chipettes escape from the Fed Ex packaging the dialouge closely echoes the time the Chipmunks scaled down their Christmas tree 
• Dave only appears in the beginning ,when he calls the Chipmunks, and at the end of the movie
• When Dave wants to talk to Aunt Jackie, Theodore says 'she is practicing her pole dancing'.
• Claire is never seen in the whole movie.
• The Chipette's story completely mirrors the sequel's story.
• Similar to the Transformers movies, by far, The Alvin and the Chipmunks series produced a 1986 animated movie, a 2007 live-action movie, and a 2009 live-action movie. The Transformers series also produced a 1986 animated movie, also made a 2007 live-action movie, and also made a 2009 live-action movie sequel.
• When the Chipettes introduce themselves to Ian, Jeanette mentions that she often feels like an "Olivia". Olivia was the name of the girl who first took care of the Chipettes in the cartoon show.
• When the Chipettes enter Ian's "home", they mention that it's the best tree house ever, refering to the tree house they lived in before they moved in with Miss Miller.

Cast

Live-Action

• Jason Lee as David Seville
• David Cross as Ian Hawke
• Zachary Levi as Toby Seville

Special Guest

Edward Scissorhands

The Chipmunks

• Justin Long as Alvin (speaking voice)
• Matthew Gray Gubler as Simon (speaking voice)
• Jesse McCartney as Theodore (speaking voice)
• Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. as Alvin (singing voice)
• Steve Vining as Simon (singing voice)
• Janice Karman as Theodore (singing voice)

The Chipettes

• Anna Faris as Jeanette (speaking voice)
• Christina Applegate as Brittany (speaking voice)
• Amy Poehler as Eleanor (speaking voice)
• Janice Karman as the Chipettes (singing voices)

External Links

• Official Site
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel at the Internet Movie Database
• 1st Teaser Trailer
• 2nd Teaser Trailer