2022 · animation · family · comedy
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Directed by Akiva Schaffer1h 39m2022
Decades since their successful television series was canceled, Chip has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend’s life.
Our read: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- twisty
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