It seems like a funky and ingenious idea: Hire a few people from The Lonely Island and a few crazy ex girlfriend The writers deliver a fresh, unbalanced take on the Disney Channel animated series of the late ’80s.But the director’s plastic surgery Akiva Shaffer Writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand perform in a Disney+ original feature film Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers yields mixed results. The humour is too mature for young adults whose familiarity and affinity with the original series barely made the list, while being too tame for adults craving a nostalgic dopamine hit. Although the film takes its disrespect to heart, the storytelling — about two estranged friends who become friends again as they regroup their squad — is flat and familiar, even if the details are unique.
Cartoon Chipmunk Chip (John Mullaney) and Dale (Andy Samberg) have been best friends since elementary school. From their shared curiosity to their personal quirks, they understand and encourage each other and never care about getting along with their peers. It was clear early on that their talent lay in putting on a comedy show, and that Dale was the clumsiness of Chip’s straight men – even when they weren’t on stage, their actual identities.After moving to Los Angeles to become actors and surviving brief financial hardships, the pair got their big break in starring Rescue Rangersthe popular detective drama.
All was well, dude, until Dale suddenly became disillusioned with creativity and rather inexplicably dropped Chip for a solo TV pilot. Despite the dynamic duo split and the pilot failing to attract audiences, Dale underwent “CGI surgery” to stay relevant in the industry, finding himself happily surviving on the convention circuit as a dated. As a suburban insurance salesman, Chip is also content with mediocrity. However, when their former co-star Monty (Eric Bana), now a drunken alcoholic and indebted, disappears after alerting them to a criminal organization’s plot, the couple are forced to reunite and settle them Long-standing divisions kidnap animal actors, change their identities and force them to perform in pirated films.
While this makes a big difference to its better cinematic predecessors in terms of tone, aesthetics and narrative Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, builds a world where cartoons coexist with humans and features a noir-style mystery that’s more adult-like, and it incorporates some of its own clever creativity into its underlying emotions. Commentary on how we treat nostalgia — a particularly poignant essay on fame and celebrity culture in metasubtext — is neatly hidden in the base of the narrative. Topics involving human trafficking, loan sharks, and body terror feel completely unexpected, and not at all unfounded or unwelcome. It’s also nice to see larger themes centered on insecurities, identity, and teamwork in the barrage of self-reflection jokes—everything kids watch can relate to and possibly struggle with.
But much of the film’s shrewd, admirable qualities are hampered by its constant, smug comedy bits and clichés. Whenever the “biggest risk is to take no risk” life lesson is mentioned, it falls like an ACME anvil. Many allusions and metaphors will fly through the minds of children. The former friend’s buddy cop dynamic is neither noteworthy nor refreshing. The only time it’s convincing is when the two get back to normal when they do an awkward riff on the whale to get rid of a sliding follower (Flula Borg). Dale’s maddening, artificial motive for dumping Chip betrays what we’ve been told and shown about his character in the setting – so much so that even if he inevitably states his faulty reasoning later, he fails to do so. Earn our support. Chip is better off without him.
The creatives littered with tons of offbeat jokes, ranging from tons of self-aware set-ups and punchlines that didn’t quite hit the mark to rather funny visual gimmicks involving parody movie titles (Lego Les Miserables top). Plenty of random humor distracts from the simple plot – like a ton of cameos from non-Disney IPs who fill the background as bit players, and a story about Dave Bolinari, Dale’s agent (Chris Parnell). ), he was specifically mentioned by his full name, and his mentions admirably followed the comedy’s threesome rule. However, it rarely really tickles our funny bones.
For the 25+, at least, the viewing experience for viewers isn’t a laugh, but an admitted chuckle full of kinetic enigma that respectfully replicates the series’ aspirations and appeal. Maybe it’s one they’ll grow and appreciate over time. However, just as the show has faded from pop culture consciousness, so too may the film that strives to honor it from our collective memory.
