2011 · comedy · fantasy · family
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Directed by Mike Mitchell1h 27m2011
Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Our read: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · fantasy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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