There's nothing I love more than Seamus trying to act like he doesnt know the lore of the Chipmunk to not embarrass himself in front of his friend. It's okay Seamus. We all know you're the president of the Alvin and the Chipmunk fan club.
I watched a video by a guy who knew stuff from the original cartoon and compared it to the movies with their arcs. I have never found a bigger fan haha
i was at a party with some friends a couple months ago, and i kid you not…jaws dropped when i revealed i’d never seen glee (apparently i give off big glee energy?)
@@SeamusGorman4 people like to say Glee went off the rails somewhere around season 5 but to be quite honest I'm not sure there were any rails to begin with so I think you'll find it delightfully unhinged
It isn't comfy to sleep with glasses on, but if you're like me and wear glasses, you'll know... falling asleep with them on happens more than you want it to
As someone who had a chipmunks phase when he was 15, I can say you are so missing out on the 1987 movie “the chipmunk adventure”. Truly a masterpiece. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. I’m not even joking Maybe you do another video where you watch the 2D chipmunks trilogy?
they have some cheap animated version as well still on going i think on cartoon network and CITV and stuff. its real weird now. they are still tryna farm money out of it tho somehow.
Same,The First Three Movies Are The Goat,I Don’t Rlly Like The 4th One Because It’s Boring And I’ve Never Watched The Whole Thing Because Of How Long And Boring It Is,One Of The Best Movie Series Ever,Squeakquel And Chipwrecked Are The Best Ones IMO
According to NBC News, David Cross didn't think he needed to be present for the week of filming onboard a Carnival cruise ship, since he's unrecognizable in the pelican suit anyway. The other producers agreed that a stand-in could fill in for him during that part of filming, but the particular producer he singled out disagreed. David had to pay a huge fine of $100,000 for making this public information, Ian was written out of Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: The Road Chip, David missed out on earning another paycheck of $150,000,000. David was blacklisted. David worked on small roles in Kung Fu Panda 3, The Post, 8-Bit Christmas, You Hurt My Feelings, and Kung Fu Panda 4. This producer left 20th Century Fox in 2016 after the release of Me before You. She has been working for Amazon Prime Video since 2022. It's disappointing that Tony Hale couldn't help David reconcile with 20th Century Fox to get his job back in February, 2015.
Haven’t watched this video yet but reading the title my first thought was, “There’s 4? What’s after Chipwrecked?” I then went through a bit of embarrassment due to knowing the name of the 3rd movie at all and had a flashback to when I would use my DS to mess with songs I had downloaded onto it to make them all sound like they were sung by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Sidenote: Why is it called Alvin and the Chipmunks? They’re all Chipmunks! Extra Sidenote: What in gods name is a Chipmunk? The name sounds really weird. Sounds like some potato got hung drawn and quartered before converting to Christianity and joining the brotherhood.
Chipmunks are a type of rodent primarily found in North America with a single Variety in Siberia (according to the internet, I'm not just some person who's obsessed with the taxonomy of chipmunks). I live in one of the main Areas of the United States where Chipmunks are really common and I see them all the time. They look s lot like squirrels, but without tails.
15:28 In the after credits scene of the first movie, you actually see Ian trying to work with real chipmunks. So he did legitimately do that LOL Also I will not stand for this Chipwrecked slander. That one is my favorite Chipmunks movie you can't slander that one 😭 It has the best found family content in it, it rly hits As for the relationship dynamics between the Chipmunks and Chipettes: Alvin and Brittany end up def reaching a brother/sister relationship, while the other 2 are more a crush thing? Alvin spends more time flirting with human girls than he does with Brittany which is just really wild. I also love how Dave specifically adopts the Chipmunks and not the Chipettes, which implies that the Chipettes were just friends chilling under the same household.
This made me feel very old. Not only do you not know about the early 90s Saturday morning cartoon, but you saw one of these in theaters as a child in 2011, the same year my kids were born.
DUUUDE ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS WAS MY CHILDHOOD OBSESSION -- i can't tell you how many fanfics and ocs i made of other chipmunk/chippette characters and role played with my sisters. we would even copy the Chipettes (since they were three of us) and attempt to do their dances to family members and friends (SO EMBARRASSING LOOKING BACK). its also funny because we had a neighbor who had 3 sons around our age and we just kinda decided to crush on them for... you know what reason. anyway it was cringe but fun. also the 3rd movie was our favorite, actually
I went through a phase in middle school where I would listen to the "chipmunks version" of songs, which was just the song with the voice pitched up to sound like them. Africa by Toto was one of my favorites, and I listened to plenty of Chipette versions of Taylor Swift songs. Cringe 😂
@@amyfalls same honestly they were my biggest ships lmao who cares about Alvin/Brittany the real heat was janette and Simon. Also the girls fits in that movie we’re SO GOOD
Actually it's not just Chipmunks that can talk, there was an anthropomorphic Gopher in the last one, who alluded to a larger community of likely other talking animals. And in the first one Simon mentioned that fish have a sort of sign language.
The fact they got an arrested development actor to play the villain and then another one to play the villain in road chip is so mind boggling to me Also does anyone else think Ian looks like Shido?
According to NBC News, David Cross didn't think he needed to be present for the week of filming onboard a Carnival cruise ship, since he's unrecognizable in the pelican suit anyway. The other producers agreed that a stand-in could fill in for him during that part of filming, but the particular producer he singled out disagreed. David had to pay a huge fine of $100,000 for making this public information, Ian was written out of Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: The Road Chip, David was blacklisted. David worked on small roles in Kung Fu Panda 3, The Post, 8-Bit Christmas, You Hurt My Feelings, and Kung Fu Panda 4. This producer left 20th Century Fox in 2016 after the release of Me before You. She has been working for Amazon Prime Video since 2022. It's disappointing that Tony Hale couldn't help David reconcile with 20th Century Fox to get his job back.
Alvin and the Chipmunks is one of those things were as a movie, it's bad, but as an adaptation, it's amazing (but that depends on which movie, Chipwreck dropped the ball tbh)
I've known the Chipmunks since birth. I cant believe some people haven't! I love the 80s series and the animated movies that came out in the early 2000s!
I would love to see y'all react to the old school Alvin and the Chipmunks animated movies after this. I honestly don't remember much of it but I know Alvin and the Chipmunks around the world in 80 days was one of my favorites as a kid. We would literally rent it every time we went to Blockbuster.
I forgot about that Chipmunk Adventure movie for so long but recently I remembered there was a whole plotline about forced marriage/ human (scratch that- chipmunk) trafficking and now I'm like "how was this allowed"😳
I grew up on Alvin and the chipmunks and didn’t even know it was from the 50s. One of my favorite movies with them was the werewolf movie. 3 completely different series plus multiple animated movies throughout my childhood and teen years alone.
18:51 For context, this is a cameo done by an old NASCAR Mascot in 2009, the characters name is Digger and I have no idea why they decided to add him as a cameo.
The Chipmunks and Chipettes sadly have an on and off relationship. The youngest siblings are usually the most consistently together followed by the middle siblings. Mainly due to their personalities.
Did anyone else get whiplash when the clip for the 4th movie started playing. I completely forgot there was a 4th one and omg the animation of the chipmunks are so different I had to pause the video to regain my senses. I was not expecting the quality to jump like that
Weta Digital, the visual effects artists who worked on The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar 2: The Way of Water worked on Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: The Road Chip.
My only memory of Chipwrecked was Jennette(?) singing SOS by Rhianna because I watched the movie on a Greyhound bus when I was in 3rd grade. Core memory.
im one of the few people who actually liked watching all the alvin and the chipmunks films. to me they are essentially focused to a young teen audience at best but are the typical american stereotype style of tropes thrown into the movie with some small more mature humour and little secrets here and there. i think the 1st chipmunk film actually came out around the time of christmas hence the christmas theme in the 1st movie and the 3rd coming out around summer time. to me, the 1st film grabbed my attention i think it was due to the fact that imo, music was dying and losing its touch with decent music so i settled with the chipmunks remakes of real songs because admittedly, the songs they sing are better than the originals imo which also was the reason i broadened my music to covers other genres, other tones and many other things within the music industry so in a way i have this to thank for that. for the 2nd film, i personally think it was better and i mean more people ended up watching it as well because the chippettes were introduced with 2 returning characters that people actually liked to see in films and movies at the time. for people who dont know as well, the side character in the chippettes i think and i believe a very old school youtuber when vine was around in 2015 id like to have a guess at. i think one of them is tobias and i recognise the side character in road chip as well. but yes alvin and the chipmunks obviously made enough to feature some people in the films for a part of it and actually made profit here and there. its basically the less modern version of the same thing that happened with the frozen glow up and everything to do with frozen which is now a prominant modern day part around christmas. the 3rd i think was the least popular overall because it strayed from the path of the films and didnt make profit anyway. so not much to say on this either than it got me to listen to the vacation song and SOS. the last one was better than 3 but still flopped quite hard if i remember correctly, even tho it had familliar faces and famous people from that era of time-filming and music, it dont think it ended up doing well in sales so it wasnt talked about for long and hadnt got much attention. this was around the time JLS (forgotten band of singers), LMFAO, psy for gangnamstyle, what does the fox say, i think stuff like just dance 3 and many other genres were kicking up a notch due to a technology boom or some advancement in technology. lastly as a side note, the main reason why the chipmunks sound the way that they do because in the making of it, the 3 female and male singers were awful for the most part at singing which is why their voices were never used. there are snippits on youtube somewhere in which you can hear there actual voices over the film its self and you will notice that it wouldve flopped far more if they hadnt chosen to go with the squeaky voices. oh and i forgot, this is when auto tune was a major concept in films and music so people were still experimenting with it.
I liked watching them I own all of the dvd’s. I also have my plushies of all the 6 characters, and I loved watching the animated series. I think the fourth movie isnt that great so I only watch 1-3 but I do have the fourth dvd. But the thing is I watched them in my first language and they didn’t bother to make their voices squicky so for me I assumed there voices were normal like in the dubbed version.
Before the live action Alvin and the chipmunks movies came out, I constantly watched the Alvin and the chipmunks: meet the wolf man, and the meet Frankenstein movies while growing up
I got really happy when I got the notification since a new video from Seamus always puts a smile on my face and especially this one cuz these movies were my life when I was 8-10 yrs old. And for the first time I know what’s gonna happen before Seamus and Vegard does
The first movie came out when I was 10 years old so naturally I ended up seeing it many times. I even had their songs on my iPod Shuffle for some reason.
When I was in hospital at 11, I watched the second film on a DVD player. Then I realised the hospital had the first film, and watched that. Then I wanted to watch the second film again, having now seen the first, and that was when my mum snatched the DVDs from my hands and said she wasn't going to sit through those voices a third time. Can't say I blame her.
I used to watch the first two when I was younger, and even remember liking the first movie (don’t remember my thoughts on the second, I mainly remember Alvin mentioning Donkey Kong), though I think I used to be kinda hesitant to rewatch the first one when I was younger cause I remember the Chipmunk dolls or whatever that Ian made creeped me out back then Edit: Ok, scratch that Donkey Kong reference being the main thing I remember from the second cause I just remembered a weird story for me back when I first saw it in theaters (don’t ask me why), when Dave got hurt at the beginning, somehow I thought I had just witnessed that actually happening like it was real life and it was like 2012, I was probably 5, coming up on six, and so my dumb younger mindset doing that made me not wanna go back to the theater for a while. At least I think this was 2012 because I remember seeing Avengers in theaters when it first came out and eventually got my head on straight and starting going back there when Iron Man 3 came out but didn’t go with my brother to see The Amazing Spider-Man when that did…I seemed to have been a moron with movies when I was little
OMG AATC obsession since childhood. I was like 5 when I watched the first one and I definitely loved it. I thought the music was really cool. I thought Ian was an interesting villain. I also thought the Chipmunk dolls were creepy, but I think that was the whole point of them. Even Dave commented that they are weird in one scene. I was like 6/7 when the Squeakquel came out and it was even better. I also thought the scene of Dave getting hurt was mental. But, it means the chipmunks are without him and have to learn the main lesson without him (what help is Toby gonna be tbh). I I remember my mom telling me, when Alvin rescues the Chipettes, it was Yogi Bear coming out of the ground and not getting that reference. I also thought it was odd Alvin randomly mentioning Donkey Kong in one scene. I loved Chipwrecked as well. I loved that it was a holiday movie. I thought it was interesting that Alvin said to someone at the casino on the ship, "You can follow me on Critter". It was funny and odd at the same time because we know that they are aware of the existence of Twitter in this universe. But, Dave and Ian's dynamic is really good in this film, the loving father trying to rescue his sons from harm and the good (deep down), but begrudging sidekick. And yes, if Dave wasn't with Claire, I would ship him and Ian together. It never even crossed my mind until Vegard said it. And finally The Road Chip. The most adult-oriented and mature of them all. I was a few years older when I saw this. It never even crossed my mind that Alvin drugged squirrels and put them into the Alvin, Simon and Theodore sweaters. He literally drugged squirrels! And then Alvin mentioning "Pink Flamingos" while in first class was a reference to the film of the same name. A film for adults. This films has the first instance of character (Miles) saying "crap" in an AATC film. Anyways, I definitely loved all the movies for as I can remember, but some references went over my head. But these films were my childhood.
Up until today I did not know there was a 4th Live Action Alvin & the Chipmunks movie. For, like, 10 years I thought Chip-Wrecked killed the franchise. How did it survive Chip-Wrecked
I was always confused with the relationship between the Chipmunks and the Chipettes. They have sibling dynamics but at the same time romance? I’m still confused about it to this day.
I might delete this if you mention it, but since the third movie came out one year after Toy Story 3, it's pretty clear the whole thing where Simon just randomly acts like a different character because a spider bit him is literally ripping off when Buzz had his Spanish mode on
We actually had the record (real vinyl) of "Christmas with the chipmunks" from the 1960's no idea how we got it, i think it survived so well because it was only brought out once a year.
I'm glad you mentioned why at the beginning of the video. I was thinking you lost a bet against someone and now have to make this video as punishment. As a 80's kid who liked the cartoon back then I only watched the trailer for the first live action movie once and said nope. Edit: You made me feel old when you thought that 80's song was from The Chipmunks movie. I'm trying not to think of you as a kid because of that.
20:02😂 10:01 Simon, First of child. Second, Chipmunk. I grew up with the 1981 Christmas special movie and the chipettes movie as well as these. 18:16 Those break dancing moves are hard! Simone is actually played by Alan Tudyk.😅
I have watched u for 6 years now i guess, you are the only constant in my life right now and i adore your content sooo much, so its kinda weird not seeing new uploads for like 2 months, you have that younger brother charisma and a really sweet smile. I dont like commenting since english is my second language and its kinda broken, but still Seamus even when your videos dont hit i still rewatch them because i find comfort in your voice. I was 13 when i first started watching you, i kinda grew up with you and can still remember lyrics to some of the parody songs (they still slap btw). So from a lifelong fan, thank you for being a part of my life.
The gopher that suddenly shows up in the second movie during the driving sequence is Digger the Gopher, the NASCAR mascot for the ground-mounted track cameras. Also the mention about the chipmunks and the Chippettes names one thing I noticed as a kid was Theodore and Eleanor’s names matching as like a reference to Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt. I don’t know if that was intentional originally or just a coincidence but I thought that was kinda fun
Where was the phenomenon on social media, encouraging audiences to see both Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens and Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: The Road Chip as a double feature back in December, 2015?
Yay, a another Seamus Gorman upload. I get so excited whenever he uploads a new video, but especially this time because he did an Alvin and the Chipmunks vid. I was so excited because AATC is my childhood. I loved literally all the movies. I'm disappointed you were very critical at certain because these movies are my life. I would say my ranking of the films is 2, 4, 3 & 1. I really like The Squeakquel because it's got that classic American High School and I love the sense of family that the chipmunks have with each other in the end.. So while Seamus and Vegard are cringing together, I feel nothing but nostalgic. I hope you do more of these Seamus. I hope you do Beethoven and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid tetralogy. Seamus, I think the reason nobody has out to steal more chipmunks from the wild and make them sing is because the whole point of the series is that Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor are the only andromorphic chipmunks that exist in the world. We saw in the mid credits scene of 1, that Ian is trying get real chipmunks to sing, but to no avail, so there are no other talking chipmunks around. So, therefore, the whole series is meant to point that they are their own unique species. And to answer your question about the Squeakquel, Seamus, the title is a pun on the word, "sequel" and the noise that comes of real chipmunks "squeak". And also, to answer your question about whether the Chipmunks and Chipettes are in love yet, yes they are. I think right from the moment they looked in each other's eyes they were simping for one another (that was the point of that scene). But, Simon and Jeanette became official at the end of the third movie when they are on the raft together and Simon confesses his feelings to her. Alvin and Brittany are in love, but have a love/hate relationship and Theodore and Eleanor are official in number 4 when she called Theodore "Theodorable".
Huge Chipmunk fan here! The Fox movie franchise might have ended, but the Chipmunks have a new reboot on Nickelodeon! Seasons 3 and 4 are on Netflix too!
I remeber watching the third movie like 40 times as a kid despite not even remebering it for years at all i was able to recall every plot detail and scene
I had both the first movie cds. Saw the chip-wrecked in theaters think but definitely not the best movie. Never seen the fourth one though. Either way Alvin and the Chipmunks is my childhood
I know they're not that good of films but Alvin and the Chipmunks are my comfort films (along with all the Barbie films). I like them, even Chipwrecked.
Love this, can you do the same with Ice Age? 1-5 (Ice Age, Ice Age the Meltdown, Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age Continental Drift, Ice Age Collision Course)
Alvin and the chipmunks 4 summary you said reminds me of life with Derek 😅 Where there is an episode when the step siblings didn’t want their parents to get married
You know I actually have a vivid memory of my mom taking me to see the Road Chip in theaters and me begging her not to because I had like. I don't know, gained sentience, so I didn't want to watch a fourth Alvin and the Chipmunk movie. I went. I don't remember a single moment of anyone in the theater enjoying it.
Alvin and the Chipmunk movies are so odd to me lol. Like, the first one I quite enjoy, it's simple and effective. Not a fantastic movie, but its okay. Good for it's time I suppose. But when they introduced the Chipettes I was so confused lol. Like, they're supposed to be the love interests for the Chipmunks, but then Dave takes them in so they're like... Kind of siblings? Not official siblings though. Then Dave properly adopts the Chipmunks in the later films, but NOT the Chipettes (who, I don't think are in that movie? I don't remember, I'm watching the video while typing this lol). Which I mean, I'm not even really sure what their relationship is (because I'm pretty sure it's never really touched on? Except kind of in the third, I think) but it seems like a dick move to be caring for 6 kids, OFFICIALLY adopt 3 of them, and the other 3 you still care for but like... idk gotta ship your chipmunk children ig
18:50. This is Digger, a gopher that NASCAR used to try to get kids to watch the sport (because, for some reason, they thought that a talking gopher was going to make kids like race cars). On the other hand, not many people knew about this character, even in America, so I don’t blame you for not understanding the reference.
i cannot believe the amount of icons they got in these movies lol. like, amy pohler, zachary levi, jenny slate, ZEKE FROM HSM, david cross, christina applegate, jennifer frickin coolidge, terrence from the tinker bell movies bro, the list just goes on and on. for the alvin and the chipmunks movies
