Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Oh God, Jason Lee why? ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS movie from the mind-blowing talents behind the GARFIELD movie sequel?!?

Not the first by Bourne Again	Mar 8th, 2007 03:52:51 AM
never wanted to be
Wow, there is no way this is not going to suck. by Grando	Mar 8th, 2007 03:57:37 AM
Hey, proove me wrong!
My Name is Earl, now gimme that paycheck! by Boondock Devil	Mar 8th, 2007 04:03:38 AM
C'mon Jason why are you doing movies like this and Underdog? It's too bad cause the man could have been Fletch and he'd still make a great Lupin if that Lupin the III movie ever gets off the ground.
oh god noooooooooo......... by kmw4121	Mar 8th, 2007 04:11:41 AM
the chipmunks were bad enough the first time round in the 80's why the fuck would we want to see some furry fuckers that were just annoying helium speaking Douche bags i don't know !!!!
I just rewatched Mallrats last night by Franklin T Marmoset	Mar 8th, 2007 04:24:26 AM
I had forgotten how funny Jason Lee was in that one. He seems to have gone off the rails a bit lately, though. Earl is okay, but this cartoon business feels like money in the bank stuff. It's a real shame he and Kevin Smith weren't able to pull off Fletch, because that could have been good one.
Will there be chipcrumpin' in this movie? by Boondock Devil	Mar 8th, 2007 04:35:04 AM
You know that'll be somewhere in this abomination of a film.
Maybe Tim Hill is a scientologist. by Walterego	Mar 8th, 2007 04:38:05 AM
That might explain it. It seems like every clam in Hollywood has guest starred on Earl. Being one of those people does something to one's judgement, so an ill advised cartoon movie is the least of his problems.
I always hated the Chipmunks. by DerLanghaarige	Mar 8th, 2007 04:45:05 AM
Their music, the crappy cartoonshow, the crappy movie. Everything!
What? Was David Schwimmer too busy? by The Tao of Joe	Mar 8th, 2007 04:55:56 AM
Beyond the fact that Jason Lee is wasting his life away in cartoon movie purgatory, the people who cast him simply picked the wrong guy. David Schwimmer would have been a perfect Dave. He looks like Dave, he acts like Dave (especially in Friends when he had that pet monkey). Hell, he even has the first same name as Dave. Seems to me that Schwimmer was put on this earth to do two things: 1) Star in an over-succsessful sit-com that stands to be the very definition of lowest common denominator pap, and 2) play Dave Seville in this lowest common denominator pap of a live-action Chipmunks movie. They cast the wrong guy I tells ya!
lol by theonecalledshoe	Mar 8th, 2007 04:56:27 AM
Where are the chipettes at?? Jamie Pressly could do a voice. C'mon they're needed. Thrown them in and my childhood battle of the sexes would be remembered. runs off to watch alive and the chipmunks animated movie just for the arguments.
Ouch. by GilesT	Mar 8th, 2007 05:15:14 AM
Underdog, and now this? Jason. What the fuck?! It almost seems like ascending the ranks of scientology seriously fucks with ones decision-making abilities... ...oh, hang on.
Jabberjaw's gotta be next right? by Boondock Devil	Mar 8th, 2007 05:23:46 AM
And with a title like that it'd have to have Paris Hilton in it.
UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE!!!! by MIYAGISAN	Mar 8th, 2007 05:32:35 AM
I'm amazed, as long as parents keep taking their kids to see this sort of shit, Hollywood will keep churning it out. Next they'll probably fuck up the Flintstones by letting John Goodman play Fre... shit, too late. Who's up for King Ralph 2????
The Jetsons starring William H. Macy! by Boondock Devil	Mar 8th, 2007 05:39:49 AM
Dane Cook will be voicing Astro. It'll never end.
C-H-I-P-M-U-N-K by JustinSane	Mar 8th, 2007 07:30:55 AM
We're the chipmunks... guaranteed to brighten no one's day, I guess.
Chipmunks arouse me. by YackBacker	Mar 8th, 2007 07:37:13 AM
Im just sayin'...
I bet Monahan is involved by CuervoJones	Mar 8th, 2007 07:38:28 AM
After The Departed, i smell Oscar here
Why? by Rupee88	Mar 8th, 2007 07:38:30 AM
$
JASON LEE GOTTA EAT by Pound Sand	Mar 8th, 2007 07:55:21 AM
There's no reason to make this movie. None. The Chipmunks achieve cultural consciousness once a year when their Christmas song is played on the radio. Then, it's a rocket-ride back to obscurity. Ah, just do it anyway. Make it a POOCHIE style reboot, with skateboards, Mountain Dew and baggy shorts.
THE PAIN... by deathstar73	Mar 8th, 2007 08:30:50 AM
somebody make it stop.
I think Lee has finally lost it by Purgatori	Mar 8th, 2007 08:40:16 AM
The Scientology has eaten his soul completely and he now can only do lame ass shit like this. Let's take a look at his track record since Vanilla Sky (that shitfest he did with Cruise) Big Trouble (enough said) Stealing Harvard (oh yes...sooo good) A Guy Thing (WTF???) Dreamcatcher (AKA The Buttaliens attack) The Incredibles (one shining light) Drop Dead Sexy (did anyone see this???) My Name is Earl (the other shining light) Then we have Underdog...and now..this??
Steve Carrell is Tennessee Tuxedo by JackSack	Mar 8th, 2007 09:01:22 AM
Seriously, was there a more disturbing show than Alivn and the Chipmunks in the 80s? I remember when then had the girl chipmunks and there was an episode where Alvin and the one girl chipmunk (christ I think her name was Britnay) were going to a dance and Alvin didn't want to take her or something and they were trying to make each other jealous by taking other people. But, they were actually taking other human kids not other chipmunks. That was fucking disturbing. Can you imagine you have a son or daughter going to their first dance and a fucking singing chipmunk shows up at the door? Holy fuck I'd get a broom and chase them off my porch! That show scarred me in my childhood. Scarred me.
Too Venomy!! by boba_rob	Mar 8th, 2007 09:09:25 AM
Actually, the cartoon that could be a cool big budget comedy would be the Jetsons. Think about it-recreating the Jetsons world using today's special effects-could be cool. Make it kinda like Galaxy Quest, which I feel is a pretty solid sci-fi comedy.
Behold - Tooty Turtle's COSMPIC POWERS! by Doctor_Sin	Mar 8th, 2007 09:11:58 AM
My anus just prolapsed thanks to this article.
Kevin Smith is a cunt by performingmonkey	Mar 8th, 2007 09:23:49 AM
Lee should never have cameoed in that shitfest Clerks 2. Who's playing Alvin, Simon and Theodore? Not kids, people like Zach Braff. And why is Matthew Broderick not in this?
We're the Chipmunks. C-h-i-p-m-u-n-gay. by performingmonkey	Mar 8th, 2007 09:38:18 AM

thank god Smith isn't doin Fletch by triplefive	Mar 8th, 2007 09:56:04 AM
Can I borrow a towel? my car just hot a water buffalo
I'm interested by purplemonkeydw	Mar 8th, 2007 10:33:44 AM
That's a pretty cool pick for Dave. I hope he slicks his hair back original Darren (Bewitched) style for this...
Clive Owen is Dave Seville by rabidbothan	Mar 8th, 2007 10:38:48 AM
he's handsome and has awesome delivery...he'd be perfect.
BEEP BEEP BEEP by jwmc	Mar 8th, 2007 10:41:08 AM
The sound of the dump truck full of cash they backed up to his house. That's why Jason Lee is doing this movie.
EARL GOTTA EAT! by Spice-Orange	Mar 8th, 2007 10:45:15 AM
yeah, played out, but still good. I second the above poster; there is no way on earth that this movie wont suck ass... but at the same time, its going to make far too much money at the box office because people don't know better and kids don't have good taste. oh well.
The Chipmunks and the Cold War by Thomas Cromwell	Mar 8th, 2007 10:52:13 AM
I remember seeing a Chipmunks episode years back where they go to Berlin, help bring down the wall and reunite a West German girl with her Eastern brother. Forget glasnost, forget Reagan, forget Gorbachev it was three screeching furballs that brought down the Iron Curtain. God help history.
This movie is for kids, not by CVB784	Mar 8th, 2007 11:05:52 AM
This movie is for kids, not adults. Get a grip.
CAPTAIN PLANET, Starring THE ROCK by CVB784	Mar 8th, 2007 11:09:47 AM
I'll bet you its more of a possibility than anyone here wants to admit. Produced by Al Gore.
Angelina Jolie in "The Power of Isis" by Doctor_Sin	Mar 8th, 2007 11:33:11 AM
There is so much more of our Saturday morning childhoods to pillage.
Dane Cook should give blowjobs to get to voice Astro. by TheRevengeOfBayouWilly	Mar 8th, 2007 11:45:58 AM
People are starting to realize he sucks as hard as Larry The Cable Guy and Dave Coulier.
Amazing by shakeitup	Mar 8th, 2007 11:50:24 AM
It amazes me how people react to this stuff. The Garfield movies ... are ... for ... KIDS!!! Kids enjoy the movies. These movies aren't for us? Of course we won't go see them, but our kids (if any of you actually have them) will drag us to the theater on a Saturday afternoon to blow $30. Move along everyone, on to Rob Zombie and Indy 4, please.
ewhsgrasegfadsfug by David Lazarus Long	Mar 8th, 2007 12:13:27 PM
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY SOMEONE JUST FUCKING TELL ME WHY THEY WON'T LEAVE THIS SHIT ALONE! O_O!!!!!!
I don't care who it's for by David Lazarus Long	Mar 8th, 2007 12:15:08 PM
there's no reason to drudge up childhood memories just to fucking milk the big fat 80's cash cow! ENOUGH. IS. ENOUGH. God, there must be 500 waiters in LA with more original ideas than remaking old shit! FUCKING END IT!
I'm torn here by Bloo	Mar 8th, 2007 12:45:22 PM
I love Jason Lee...I enjoyed the Chipmunks when I was a kid...but this just sounds...disturbing. are the original voice actors still alive or are they going to go Bill Murry on us?
Oh man, I loved the 80s movie too. by Demosthenes2	Mar 8th, 2007 01:12:30 PM
Especially the "We Are the Boys/Girls of Rock N' Roll" number sung over the volcano they were about to be sacrificed into. I actually liked the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie. I know, I'm insane, but I guess I love R&B (heh R&B) too much that they could have done a sock puppet movie with them and I'd have been happy. Well gee, Garfield 1 was awful, but I didn't see A Tale of Two Kitties, so who's to say? Heh. Hehehmenehhumphhehp.
Me, I Want A Hula Hoop. by buster00	Mar 8th, 2007 01:32:44 PM
You can keep this pile of shit, though. And Harry, do you seriously think that there's even a CHANCE that "Underdog" might be any good? Dude, I want THREE of what you're smokin'.
no no no no no. by porkchop_Xpress	Mar 8th, 2007 01:42:42 PM
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!
Captain Planet movie.... by mr ahole ramirez	Mar 8th, 2007 01:43:12 PM
..doesnt sound to bad compared to what were gettin these days...
and what about by porkchop_Xpress	Mar 8th, 2007 01:45:09 PM
the chippettes?
Is it April 1st already??? by finky089	Mar 8th, 2007 01:49:14 PM
I can't believe this shit is for real.
David Schwimmer for Dave Seville! by finky089	Mar 8th, 2007 01:53:21 PM

one final comment by porkchop_Xpress	Mar 8th, 2007 02:01:46 PM
seriously, I'm getting so tired of all my favorite childhood cartoons being made into shitty movies. that is all. as you were.
This Summer... by JackSack	Mar 8th, 2007 02:03:18 PM
Journey to the Flipside with Kidd Video and Rush Limbaugh as the diabolical Master Blaster!
JackSack, I gotta talk to you for a sec by YackBacker	Mar 8th, 2007 02:16:47 PM
It's about your screename. See, I am the proprietor of the 24-related blog "The Jack Sack" (which I'm sure you would enjoy reading) and I've become kind of protective of the name. Now, I'm not saying "Don't be 'JackSack!'" because I really don't have a right to say that, I just wanted to communicate my emotions to you in a non-confrontational way. There's plenty of room for more than one Jack Sack in the world. Oh, here's the site if you want to see what I'm talking about: http://tinyurl.com/ysjbsp
This will get made by Neil McCauleys Crew	Mar 8th, 2007 03:18:43 PM
and NOT Thundarr the Barbarian??!?!?
This will be Jason Lee's 'Paycheck' by gusborwig	Mar 8th, 2007 03:47:46 PM
Lee better be doing this for the money. Sure I think he will do a good job. It cant be any worse than Garfield 2... or can it? Even if this fails at least we know Kevin Smith will write an awesome part in his next movie and cast Jason Lee in it.
Alvin should hire Harvey Birdman by siouxfire	Mar 8th, 2007 04:12:14 PM
...obviously, Jason Lee didn't get that memo I sent him.
FUCK THE CHIMPMUNKS by misnomer	Mar 8th, 2007 05:42:47 PM
up their tight furry little asses! is it wrong that that typing this has given me a semi-chub? the fat one that baked cakes all the time gave me a little rock solid cock when I was a kid. damn was I confused when I realised he wasnt a girl-munk. in all seriousness...I think jason lee is a great choice...but fuck was garfield a missed opportunity. When I heard Murray ws voicing I thought "YES!" perfect choice right there.....but it seemed to be the only good decision they made. JOHN DAVIS (not jim) damn producer signed Anderson on AvP. what a dick
WHY DOES A MANMUNK BAKE CAKES?! by misnomer	Mar 8th, 2007 05:46:43 PM
WHY?!?!?! I COULD HAVE SAVED MYSELF SO MUCH ANGUISH!
The chipmunks how they should be by Pagz	Mar 8th, 2007 07:50:20 PM
Here's how it should go: Dave Seville - Jack Black Kyle Gass - Miss Miller doesn't matter for the Chipmunks and the Chipettes, but makeup a la the grinch would work well. The way I would do it would be to make an origin film. I'd like to see it work like the cartoon, where no one cares or even notices that the chipmunks are giant rodents. I see a battle of the bands style event which will be the finale of the film and the debut of the chipmunks. A lot of cameos from music industry professionals would be great. The 'munks getting tips from boy bands or whatever. lots of potential for poking fun at the industry in a good natured way. I'm a genius ;)
Fourth or fifth gate of hell? by Utamoh	Mar 8th, 2007 10:17:34 PM
I'm losing count now. Nostradamus predicted that Alvin and the Chipmunks will suck. I heard (no joke) that they're making a feature based on the Burger King king character. What next? Mr. Clean: The Movie? The Adventures of Advil? The Diarrhea Dancers in Outer Space? Script writers may as well start blackening the skies by jumping out windows.
Chipmunk rap by aleeminator	Mar 8th, 2007 11:06:18 PM
I bet you theyll rap, theyre gonna rap. Remember when they rapped that christmas song back in the 90s?
Now, I'm worried... by Donald McKinney	Mar 10th, 2007 06:41:53 AM
As much as I like Jason Lee, I am dubious about this, unless he plays Dave like Earl. :P I grew up with Alvin and the Chipmunks when I was a kid, the cream of Saturday Morning Cartoons!! However, I am worried about whether this will work or not, remember what also happened with the live-action versions of The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo?? It would appear Hollywood never learns... Then again, if done right, if it captures the spirit of the cartoons, then it could work.
Not rap, CRAP! by Chief Joseph	Aug 5th, 2007 07:00:05 PM
People that heard the movie contains rap are wrong. The movie trailer actually has Theodore taking a crap and Alvin eating it. God, I wish I were joking.

Talkbacks

Oh God, Jason Lee why? ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS movie from the mind-blowing talents behind the GARFIELD movie sequel?!?

User login

Quick Talkback

Talkbacks