Alvin And The Chipmunks Road Chip -

By the time 2015 rolled around, the franchise was on its fourth installment. Expectations were... low. But when I finally sat down to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip , I discovered something surprising: it’s the most fun you’ll have watching a movie that critics love to hate.

We get a bar fight (set to a chipmunked version of "Uptown Funk"), a terrifying encounter with a taxidermied alligator named "Mr. Snuggles," and a wild sequence involving a charter plane and a lot of barf bags. The pacing is frantic. The jokes land about 60% of the time (the other 40% are puns so bad they circle back to good). You cannot review this movie without talking about the music. The soundtrack is a time capsule of 2015 pop. Hearing the boys cover "Uptown Funk" is a surreal experience. Mark Ronson’s bass line is iconic; the Chipmunks’ high-speed vocals make it sound like the song is being played at 45 RPM when it should be 33. alvin and the chipmunks road chip

Pitch-Perfect Mayhem: Why Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip is a Guilty Pleasure Road Trip By the time 2015 rolled around, the franchise