Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked: Critic Reviews

Good news: The shrill CG rodents, who last infested theaters in 2009's Squeakquel, are stranded on a jungle island with little hope of survival. Bad news: They've brought us along.

There is chipmunk gambling. There is seductive dancing by Chipettes wearing only towels. There is a musical gag involving the lyric "whip my tail back and forth."

Cross is the only provider of laughs in this film, which is now just a franchise machine whose purpose is to gouge yet more cash out of the kids who liked the previous two films.

Maybe for the next installment, they can go off to college and find something better to do than making these silly movies.

"Chipwrecked" serves up more of the derivative chaos that floats this franchise's boat.

You know there is something wrong with a movie when even David Cross in a giant pelican suit isn't funny.

Flails about in search of a creative reason to exist.

Either the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies are getting better, or I've accidentally buried my brain for the winter.

Eighty-seven minutes, the duration of this auditory assault, would be sufficient to slaughter every brain cell and induce blithering idiocy.

For kids, familiarity, silliness and Dave's unconditional love make it appealing. For adults, the best it has to offer are nostalgia and a running time under 90 minutes.

In between the cutesy musical covers (from the Go-Go's to Lady Gaga), the young rodents engage in harmless slapstick and even learn a bit about themselves.

Largely inoffensive but equally unimaginative.

You usually have to go to an Adam Sandler movie, or the Quad Cinema, to see something as incompetently made as "Alvin and the Chipmunks.''

87 minutes of high-pitched singing, shenanigans, bad behaviour and family bonding, enlivened by a decent Sarah Palin joke.

The obvious nods to Castaway, Lost and other pop culture references are barely worth a grin.

Well, at least it isn't in 3D.

Puns like these would be unforgivable coming from a human. From high-pitched rodents, they prompt calls for an exterminator.

If only they were truly stranded on that desert island...

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'Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked' is the third in the series that both grownups and kids enjoy. I like it, in part, for what it doesn't do, which is sink to the lows of disgusting body-function humor that replaces creative writing.

Within 5 minutes, I concluded that no one over the age of 4 could possibly withstand more than 3 minutes of those hideous rodent voices without suffering permanent damage.

Meant for a kiddie audience. Adults will be brain dead by the time they sit through all the squeaky songs

Chipwrecked is derivative and predictable and not for anyone who'd rather be watching Schindler's List. But it's good, clean old-fashioned family fun.

Shrill, silly and furry - these squeaky-voiced, computer-generated rodents are back for their third formulaic frolic.