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In 2007, "Alvin and the Chipmunks," a global phenomenon to generations of fans, became a live action/CGI motion picture event with a contemporary comic sensibility. In the holiday season blockbuster, which grossed over $350 million worldwide, songwriter Dave Seville transformed singing chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore into pop sensations -- while the out-of-control trio laid waste to Dave’s home, wreaked havoc on his career, and turned Dave’s once-orderly life upside-down.

Before you could say, "Alvinnnnn!!!" talks began about a new "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movie. Not content to rest on their laurels, the 'Munks are preparing yet another "first": There have been many great movie sequels. There have even been prequels. Now, get ready for the world's first "Squeakquel," in which Alvin, Simon and Theodore finally meet their match – and maybe more – in the newly arrived female trio, The Chipettes.

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Call it a Christmas miracle, albeit a minor one: "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" isn't entirely awful.

In fact, for its young (or merely immature) target audience -- your average fourth-grader -- this sequel to the 2007 feature about an animated trio of squeaky-voiced singing rodents is a fair sight better than the original.

That's not saying a lot, admittedly. The first film held essentially the same appeal as a party balloon filled with helium. Sure, it makes people sound funny, just like fur-ball protagonists Alvin, Theodore and Simon, in fact. As in the earlier film, they're voiced by Justin Long, Jesse McCartney and Matthew Gray Gubler, in a CGI version of the novelty musical act created by Ross Bagdasarian in 1958. But how far can you go with that one joke?

Fortunately, there's a bit more of an actual story here, with the introduction of three female chipmunks, voiced by talented comedians Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler and Anna Faris (though you'd never recognize them from their computer-enhanced, adenoidal whines). Known as the Chipettes, this distaff singing trio serves as both music-industry rivals to and love interests for the "boys," as Alvin and his brothers are known. Reprising his role as evil record executive Ian Hawke, David Cross lends the movie a distinctly goofy edginess -- a gift for Mom and Dad, presumably. At one point, Cross's character takes a full-frontal hit in the groin from an errant toy motorcycle.

Such is the level of humor in a movie whose biggest laugh comes from a scene in which one of the chipmunks is trapped under a blanket with his flatulent human caretaker (Zachary Levi). Levi's character, Toby, is a last-minute fill-in for the chipmunks' more familiar ward, Dave (Jason Lee), who's forced to sit out much of the film in a body cast after a particularly nasty, chipmunk-induced accident.

Director Betty Thomas ("The Brady Bunch Movie") manages all of this middlebrow mayhem with a suitably light touch. "Fantastic Mr. Fox," it's not. But as talking animal movies go, this "Squeakquel" just squeaks by.

Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakuelus Movie Details :

Release Date: December 23, 2009
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Betty Thomas
Screenwriter: Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Starring: Jason Lee, Justin Long, David Cross, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler, Zachary Levi
Genre: Comedy, Family

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