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I was ready for this to be a horrible, horrible, horrible film, and was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t (for what it was). Yes, this was my 8-year old niece’s choice. It’s the cost of being a good Uncle.
Present Tensed

We hauled TB and TG to see Alvin and the Chipmunks. It was better than it could have been, which is just about all that one can ask of a movie called Alvin and the Chipmunks. The scene in which Jason Lee’s presentation at work was ruined by the Chipmunks’ graffiti actually made me laugh out loud, and I never actually fell asleep or wished for death, so it was better than most children’s movies. Jason Lee gets a ‘good sport’ award for that one.
Confessions of a Community College Dean

Anyway, The movie endears you with its renditioning of popular song such as Bad Day, Only you and its very own song such as Christmas Don’t be Late and Witch Doctor! Each song are sang in a high pitch fast note which leaves the audience in stitches. Without revealing too much about the movie, this is what I can say about it…………All in all, Alvin and the Chipmunks might sound like a movie you would want to pass over due to its not so well known title or the fact that its yet another cartoon meet real life movie, but taking into account that I was totally thrust into the movie theater unexpected and not knowing what the movie is all about I enjoyed the movie a LOT more than the Golden Compass.
Aww Snap

I didn’t think the story would be that great, but the movie definitely was good for laughs. Jason Lee, who I would not have expected to pull off the role of Dave Seville, actually played the part quite well — as good, if not better than anyone else could have.
Matt Margolis

The plot is the weakness here, but that’s not unexpected in a movie about pop-star vermin. The script often goes for the cheapest laughs. But I can say my three children I brought along to the screening (ages 4, 7 and 10) all really liked it. And the audience—mostly parents and kids attending a free preview—actually clapped when it was over. I also appreciated, as a parent, that the movie was good-natured and mostly age-appropriate. (If your child can handle the level of potty humor in a typical SpongeBob episode, there’s not much here to worry about.) The underlying messages in Alvin and the Chipmunks (kids shouldn’t be spoiled; parents should grow up, get over themselves and learn to say no; modern dance pop is insipid and evil) are pretty easy to get behind.
Kulturblog