Alvin & the Chipmunks:The Road Chip

Well I've saw the commercial on Nick, like an hour ago. And to state the obvious: there's an fourth movie on the horizon. I'm guessing it's about the band going on tour.

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Oh please no.

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Of course, I rarely use just one item in my posts.

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break

I saw the trailer on Cartoon Network...

WHY?!?

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

What's with the hate, mate? Didn't you enjoy my bait? it was worth my wait!

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break

I didn't even watch your damn video.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

I find it darkly hilarious how the film posters don't appear to have taken more than an hour to photoshop together. They just get the same pose, add a prop or two, put in a new title, and call it a day. Heck, one trailer for the second was nothing more than a pitch-shifted 20th Century Fox vanity plate!

The first 20 seconds of that trailer were promising. I even thought it would be a dark and edgy deconstruction of Alvin. Then their voices were heard, and any illusions I might've had were shattered.

This film is going to be massacred at the box office, if it trying to compete with the new Star Wars movie is any indication.

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The filmmakers themselves, fed up with having to keep doing these movies, set out to finally have them fail at the box office. Since making them as awful as they could didn't work, the sole thing left was pitting them against Star Wars.

It'll probably work, too. This series really lost its novelty after the very first movie.

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There's really no reason for them to set it up against Star Wars unless they want it to fail. This isn't like when Peanuts had a surprisingly strong debut against Spectre. There's too much audience overlap between Star Wars and the Chipmunks and when given the choice, all those kids are gonna be watching Star Wars.

The title puns continue to be the best thing about these films.

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That and it's Peanuts, a childhood classic that strikes against "nostalgia" movies by actually being good.

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Honestly, I think the animated series on Nick is the reason why they're trying to make another movie.

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break

I was going to think of a space/chipmunk related pun for the next film in the series, but I got nothing.

Munks In Space? Space Chips? The Final Munktier? Superstar Trek? Chiphiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

....I suck at these

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip on Reality. In which they crossover with the 80's and current animated universes, why not.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

The thought just occurred to me that the second film beat The Princess And The Frog at the box office and held its own against Twilight and Avatar, while the third beat The Muppets. Maybe pitting this film against Star Wars isn't a conscious decision to send it out to die, but a case of Suicidal Overconfidence on the distributor's part. They may think that the previous films grossed well against highly anticipated films, so they can take Star Wars too. I guess we'll see about that.

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The Princess and the Frog is thought of as a sort of mediocre Disney movie, Twilight is a heavily niche movie, and Avatar is a bad plot surrounded by amazing CGI. That's not really surprising. Here, we're talking about Star Wars, one of the biggest franchises in the world.

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Avatar is a bad plot, but holding one's own against the highest grossing movie ever uninflated is nothing to sneeze at.

There have been disappointing Star Wars movies before!

In terms of craft or box office?

Craft, I would assume, since they haven't had a single bomb. The fact that The Clone Wars started out with a theatrical movie definitely didn't get the series off to a good start, but despite it being a disappointing "movie" it ended up being a really good series so eh.

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Probably, but the cartoon only premiered a month or two ago, so I doubt it was made primarily to promote the movie.

Anyways, the cartoon is actually pretty funny, and the first two live actions films were decent in my opinion, so I don't think this film will be that bad, but if it's going up against something like Star Wars, it'll definitely do worse at the box office.

As much as I want to say that Star Wars VII will shove this film into an broom closet, I can't. Because there's the possibility of people watching both of them, they're aimed at different audiences, Star Wars has an massive fanb~~Crap, I just shot down my argument.

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break