Disastrous Mimicking. Movie review for Alvin and Chipmunks
Probably inspired by the huge success that Ratatouille achieved, 20th Century Fox has brought their new animation to the theatre, Alvin and The Chipmunks. The
smart rat wishing to become a chef in Ratatouille is indeed impressive, and the
story brings lots of fun, but after watching Fox's new movies, I'd honestly say
I was having a hard time sitting it out.
First of all, the old saying still applies today: The first peot comparing a pretty woman to a flower is a genius, the second a mediocrity and the third stupid
. I may as well not put the blame on Hollywood as apparently they haven't learned this oriental wisdom. In Ratatouille they created a chef rat, and Alvin and
The Chipmunks sees three squirrels talking like humans and singing like rockstars? I must say it takes more than that to impress the viewers.
I love the squirrels in Disney's Mickey and Donald series. Though not as often
seen as the fun-loving mice and funny duck in the cartoon, the squirrels, with its heart meltingly lovely image and chirpy voice, tend to steal the show most of
the time when they are on stage. I must say I prefer the humble squirrels a lot more to the doggie in that classical cartoon movie.
Obviously they were trying their best to make the three chipmunks in Alvin and The Chipmunks look real and adorable. The voice job is great, but the image hardly impresses me. The storyline isn't anywhere near "interesting" and "refreshing", either.
But this isn't the worst part.
The computer technology in the movie industry can be a real double-edged sword.
When first hit the big screen, Jurassic Park wowed the movie goers really the big way. The above-mentioned saying suits perfectly in this context: The first the best, the second (The Lost World) the medicore, and the third (I don't even remember its name) a disaster. Sorry for the digression. The first Jurassic Park successfully mixed genuine human actors and actresses with computer-generaged
dinosaurs. It was a real eye-opener at that time. But taking a second glance now, I am astounded at how fake it really looks: People stare at the dinosaurs,
which are absolutely not there when filming, being asked to look frightened. You can tell how pretentious that "frightenedness" really is now.
Since then the theatre is inundated with movies featuring real human and computer-made characters. Most monster movies like KingKong, Stuart Little, and that one starring that basketball superstar Michael Jordan, just to name a few. But unfortunately few of them strike the slightest chord in me. Too fake. You talk
to the air, pretending there were someone (they will conjure that up by using their computers afterward of course) in that piece of air? That's gross if you ask me.
The Alvin and The Chipmunks falls right into this genre. From the very beginning to the very end you have to suffer watching the man (real, of course) yells, whispers, or grunts at the thin air as if there were real 3 talking animals. But
if that is factitious! I just can't take this kind of modern day movie technique any more.
Spare us such human-computermadecharacter mixing technology please. We are better off with human-only or computermadecharacter-only movies.
Panpanpan.
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