Alvin and the Chipmunks 2
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| German title | Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 | ||
| Original title | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2009 | ||
| length | Cinema: 88 minutes DVD: 85 minutes |
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FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Betty Thomas | ||
| script | Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger |
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| production |
Janice Karman Ross Bagdasarian |
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| music | David Newman | ||
| camera | Anthony B. Richmond | ||
| cut | Matthew Friedman | ||
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Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 (Original title: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ) is a comedy film from 2009 by director Betty Thomas . Like its predecessor Alvin and the Chipmunks - The 2007 movie , it is a combination of real film and computer animation and is based on the music group Alvin and the Chipmunks, invented by Ross Bagdasarian .
action
After an accident during a concert in Paris , Dave, the "father" of the Chipmunks, has to stay in the hospital and sends Alvin, Theodore and Simon back to Los Angeles to see his aunt Jackie. As soon as the Chipmunks arrive at the airport, Aunt Jackie also had an accident in her wheelchair, so that her grandson Toby, who was only interested in computer games, had to take care of the three. Dave had previously organized regular school attendance for his pupils.
The three rodents suddenly have to deal with the typical problems faced by students. They meet a rival group of female chipmunks , the Chipettes, consisting of Eleanor, Brittany and Jeanette. Its manager is now Ian Hawke, who used to take care of the Chipmunks. Ian wants to make the Chipettes stars and earn a lot of money with it and makes sure that there is a great rivalry between the two groups. Both the Chipmunks and the Chipettes are fighting to represent the school in a music competition.
Alvin, who plays football on the school team, has to go to a game and misses the concert with which she wants to get into the music competition. Ian wants to take the Chippets to another concert and skip the competition, but the Chippets refuse and Ian locks them up. However, Alvin and the others help them and manage to defeat Ian. Finally, all six of them appear together in the music competition and win the prize money of 25,000 US dollars for the school. At the end you see Ian trying to disguise himself as chippets with hand puppets, but is brought off the stage by the security service.
background
- In the German version, the Chipettes are dubbed by the singers Antonella Trapani (Brittany), Leonore Bartsch (Jeanette) and Victoria Ulbrich (Eleanor) from the then girl band Queensberry . The fourth band member Gabriella De Almeida Rinne took over the dubbing of a teenager. In addition, the title "The Song" sung by them can also be found on the worldwide soundtrack.
- The figure in the sewer shaft with the name Digger is an advertising figure for the American television station Fox Sports for the so-called gopher cam, which the station uses in NASCAR races. Like the production company Fox 2000 Pictures and distribution company 20th Century Fox of the film, Fox Sports is a subsidiary of the news corporation .
- The television series Meerkat Manor shown in the film is called “A visit to the meerkat family” in the German dubbing, the actual German title is And daily greetings the meerkat .
- Production costs were estimated at $ 75 million. The film grossed around 443 million US dollars in cinemas around the world, including 219 million US dollars in the USA and 15.5 million US dollars in Germany.
- It was released in the US on December 23, 2009 and in Germany on December 24, 2009.
Reviews
"Hardly cobbled together, the sequel can never make up for its weaknesses in terms of content with poor slapstick sequences and the chirping singing skills of its animated" actors "."
“This is where love comes into play. Which may sound harmless, but in view of the carefully computer-generated child scheme, it looks quite irritating. Open mouths, seductive looks - have the chipmunks always been through puberty? Or is what is already expressed in the R'n'B poses of the Chipettes, just the usual sexualization of children's showbiz? "
“Betty Thomas took over the directing from Tim Hill for the second screen appearance of the sweet little croissants. It didn't hurt anything. As in the previous film [..], the script repeatedly gives rise to over-the-top rodent action and weird song numbers. "
“... the croissants intone more or less current pop numbers in a very excessive way. The fact that the latter is not consistently convincing is less to blame on the chipmunks than - admittedly, culturally pessimistic - on the compositions themselves. At the same time, you will also have to understand the cinema-goers who at some point, annoyed by the concentrated madness in the high-frequency range, long for a little more people on the screen and, above all, the soundtrack. "
Soundtrack
- You Really Got Me - The Chipmunks feat. Honor Society
- Hot n Cold - The Chipettes
- So What - The Chipettes
- You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - The Chipmunks
- Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) - The Chipettes
- Bring It On - The Chipmunks
- Stayin 'Alive - The Chipmunks
- The Song - The Chipettes feat. Queensberry
- It's Okay - The Chipmunks
- Shake Your Groove Thing - The Chipmunks and the Chipettes
- Put Your Records On - The Chipettes
- I Want to Know What Love Is - The Chipmunks
- We Are Family - The Chipmunks and the Chipettes
- No One - The Chipettes feat. Charice
The soundtrack reached number 6 on the album charts in both the US and the UK.
Awards
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2010
Sequels
Another sequel under the title Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: Chipbruch (original title: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked ) ran on December 22, 2011 in German cinemas. In 2015, a fourth part, Alvin and the Chipmunks - Road Chip , hit theaters.
Web links
- Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 in the online movie database
- Official German website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 843 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Queensberry are coming to the cinema!
- ↑ The Queensberry girls come to the movies
- ↑ Financial information for the film on boxofficemojo.com
- ^ Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review Sex Sells ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Film review Alvin and the Chipmunks 2
- ↑ Film review I squeak, so I sing
