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chipmunkson16speed Alvin and the Chipmunks have assaulted our eardrums with squeaky helium voices since 1958, when David Seville (the stage name for Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) released ”Witch Doctor,” ...

The three previous films in the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise have grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide despite consistent, nearly unanimous critical drubbings. The newest iteration, ...

It started out as a clever-enough idea. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian, a Broadway actor who’d had a pretty good role as a pianist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window, started experimenting ...

Can’t say I have vivid childhood memories of Ross Bagdasarian Sr.’s “The Alvin Show.” But what I do vaguely recall is pleasant enough, as long as those helium chipmunk harmonies were limited to one ...

Call this one the surprise of 2011 but I found Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked surprisingly charming. The third film of the series finds Dave Seville (Jason Lee) & his brood of rodents sailing off ...

Alvin and the Chipmunks, a global phenomenon to generations of fans, becomes a live action/CGI motion picture event with a contemporary comic sensibility. Songwriter Dave Seville transforms singing ...

Enter Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel. Is this sequel a sleazy and tawdry cash in on the iconic anthropomorphic chipmunks, or is it more than meets the eye? Does the self centered alpha ...

Arrested Development’ star has previously described his time working on the third film as the ‘most miserable experience’ ...

Directed by Betty Thomas Written by Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger Starring Jason Lee, Zachary Levi and David Cross Classification: G As shrill, partly-animated musicals about singing ...