Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

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***Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked*** is a 2011 live-action/computer animated film, directed by Mike Mitchell and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox, with Regency Enterprises and Bagdasarian Productions. The film is a follow-up to *Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel* (2009).

The film stars Jason Lee, David Cross, and Jenny Slate, with the voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney (as The Chipmunks), Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, and Amy Poehler (as The Chipettes). The film premiered on December 16, 2011 in the United States.

The film has received unfavorable reviews from movie critics but has proved to be a huge financial success, making over $130 million to date in North America alone and over $340 million to date in total worldwide receipts, while being made on a budget of just $75 million.

## Plot

Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, The Chipmunks and The Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

## Full Plot

During a cruise for a family vacation, The Chipmunks and The Chipettes turn the ship into their personal playground, causing trouble. Dave notices that his old boss Ian Hawke is working as a pelican on the cruise and watching to see if the Chipmunks misbehave. Later that night, Alvin and Simon were grabbed by Dave (Theodore is watching *Jungle Monster 4*) when they are caught in the casino. The captain allows them one more activity: Shuffleboard. Alvin decides to go parasailing on a kite and he is blown away with the other chipmunks who are holding on. Dave tries to take a hang glider to go after them but Ian attempts to stop him and they both end up in the ocean.

Meanwhile, the six chipmunks find an island and sleep for the night. Dave enlists Ian's help find the same island and begin looking for the six chipmunks.

The next morning, The Chipmunks go and find food and while doing so, an island castaway named Zoe shows up and sees The Chipmunks and The Chipettes for the first time. They then go to Zoe's tree house on a zip line. As Eleanor tries to get out of the basket, she falls and sprains her ankle. Soon after Simon gets bitten by a spider that carries a neurotoxin. Zoe said it isn't a big deal and that she is normal, despite being bitten twice a day the spiders.

When Alvin prepares to sleep, Simon has trouble sleeping. The next morning, Theodore observes Simon's personality has changed, becoming a French, adventurous chipmunk named Simone and follows him. The two of them go bungee jumping.

Once Simone meets The Chipettes, he is overtaken by Jeanette and asks her to dance at Alvin's dismay. Later, Zoe takes Simone, Jeanette, Eleanor, and Theodore to a waterfall and Simone finds a cave while Alvin and Brittany are on the beach finding wood to make a shelter. He returns with a gold bracelet which he gives to Jeanette.

The next day, Brittany and Alvin see an active volcano and they all decide to leave the island. Theodore and Simone finally find Dave and Ian. When they all get together, preparation of a raft to get them off the island goes underway, and everyone is assigned a job.

When the raft is finished, Jeanette and Simone are still in the forest looking for food. Suddenly, Simone gets knocked out with Zoe's golf ball and Zoe kidnaps Jeanette (with the help of her basketball). Simon goes unconscious and reverts to his normal self when he wakes.

When Simon is found, he cannot remember anything since the bite. Brittany, figuring Zoe is responsible, asks him where he found the gold bracelet that he gave to Jeanette, but he doesn't remember. Brittany then asks Eleanor how to get there. When they approached the tree log to cross, Dave and Alvin decide they'll go and find Jeanette, while Ian and other chipmunks go back to the coast.

Zoe meanwhile forces Jeanette to get the treasure by tying her to a rope. As Alvin and Dave come to her rescue, the island begins to rumble again, and Zoe lets go of the rope. Jeanette runs with Dave and Alvin back to the raft but is pulled back at the log bridge. Simon swings in to help Jeanette before Alvin can cut the rope with his Swiss Army Knife. Dave is left hanging from the log when it almost gives way.

After Alvin and Ian convince Zoe to help save Dave, they run towards the raft and escape the eruption. While on the raft, Zoe apologizes to Jeanette for kidnapping her and forcing her to get the treasure. As a gift, Jeanette gives Zoe the gold bracelet that Simone had given to her. Alvin reconciles with Dave, and they are rescued.

The Chipmunks and The Chipettes perform a song at the International Music Awards. Ian regains his career and job back by selling Zoe's story to Hollywood.

In the film's epilogue, The Chipmunks, The Chipettes, and Dave are on an airplane return home to Los Angeles. Alvin is speaking on the pilot's microphone that the plane's destination is set for Timbuktu, when the flight attendant announces, the airplane will start to fly, Alvin mistakenly pushes the food cart, which hits Dave, making him scream, "*ALVINNN!!!*".

## Box Office

The film closed in the United States on June 7, 2012. It was a huge box office success, with a final domestic earning of $133,110,742 and a worldwide earning of $209,584,693 for a grand total of $342,695,435, making it the third highest grossing Alvin and the Chipmunks film.

## Cast

### Live action

* Jason Lee as David "Dave" Seville
* David Cross as Ian Hawke
* Jenny Slate as Zoe
* Andy Buckley as Captain Correlli

### Voices

* Justin Long as Alvin Seville
* Matthew Gray Gubler as Simon Seville
	+ Alan Tudyk as Simone
* Jesse McCartney as Theodore Seville
* Christina Applegate as Brittany Miller
* Anna Faris as Jeanette Miller
* Amy Poehler as Eleanor Miller

## Trivia

* So far, every Alvin and the Chipmunks live-action film has premiered in December.
	+ Also, every film ends with Dave screaming his trademark "ALVIN!".
* This is the second time The Chipettes star with the The Chipmunks in the CGI films.
* This is the last CGI/live-action film to feature David Cross as Ian Hawke (concluding his contract) and Amy Poehler as the voice of Eleanor, as Ian Hawke was replaced by James Suggs played by Tony Hale and Amy Poehler was replaced by Kaley Cuoco Sweeting as Eleanor in *Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip.*
* This is the only live-action/computer-animated Alvin and the Chipmunks film to be rated G by the MPAA.
* The film is likely based on the *Alvin and the Chipmunks* episode Island Fever.
* This is the second film that The Chipmunks get mistaken for squirrels, although the first for The Chipettes.
* Jeanette is the second of the six CGI Chipmunks to sing a solo song, "S.O.S." (the first being Alvin in *The Squeakquel* with his "cheeseballs" version of "Stayin' Alive").
* Simone is the third character to speak French in the films.
* Eleanor shouting "My Precious" is a direct reference to the film *Lord of the Rings*.
* Brittany's "Huh?" is re-used twice, the first time being when talking to Zoe and the second time when talking to Alvin.
* The ship they were traveling on is the Carnival Dream.
* This was the first film where the DVD scene selections were unnamed.
* Zoe making friends out of sports balls is a reference to the film *Castaway*.
* The face on Zoe's basketball, Spalding, is drawn to resemble Totoro from the Studio Ghibli film, *My Neighbor Totoro*.
* Parts of this film were filmed in Hawaii.

## Goofs

* When Simone and Jeanette dance in the rain, he sings "Say Hey," but his singing voice is normal, unlike his speaking voice.
* The spider that bit Simon does not look like the one he scientifically described as *Phoneutria* *bahiensis* (otherwise known as a Brazillian Wandering Spider).
* When Dave returned to the cabin after dinner with the captain, he found a scrap of pink fabric with a top and a skirt cut out. However, none of the Chipettes, who were then at Salsa Night, were wearing a pink skirt.

## Songs

Main article: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked: Music from the Motion Picture

## Videos

Alvin & The Chipmunks Chipwrecked Trailer Fox Family EntertainmentAlvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked We've Become ANIMALS!!! Fox Family Entertainment

## References

1. ↑ Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Boxofficemojo.com, Retrieved 2014-12-18.

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