Undescribable awfulness

Rating: 2/10 (14 December 2007)

How can I describe the awfulness of this movie? Cliché-ridden? Yes. Dull? Yes. Unimaginative? Yes. Predictable? Yes. Unfunny? Yes.
But it is even worse than that. After about 40 minutes of this inane story, I looked at my watch, and we were only about 10 minutes in this dragging film. After about 30 minutes, my wife said to me "I am so relieved that YOU picked it!"
What else is awful about it? The music! A pale, pale, pale, pale attempt at imitating a 1950's musical. Sorry, I was around when the 1950 musicals came out, and they were nothing like this uninspired version. Who would want to listen again to ANY of the boring lyrics of ANY of the songs in this movie! Pity the poor sound editor of this movie who had to listen to them again and again.
What else is awful? Well, many things. The chipmunk scenes, for instance. Who wants to spend any part of his or her time on Earth watching a chipmunk do a charade ? And then later in the film, do ANOTHER one!
A critic wrote that Walt Disney would be proud of this film. This is what made me suggest to my wife that we should see it as our Friday-night-at-the-movies selection. Au contraire, there is nothing of the genius of the original Disney films in this very limp version of a fairy tale. I think he would be appalled.
Incompetence must not be rewarded. Don't go and see it.
André