Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 (film)

***Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2*** is a 2025 American live-action/animated adventure comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, William Schifrin, and the writing team of Jay Scherick and David Ronn. It is a sequel to the 2022 film *Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers*, which in turn served as a continuation of the 1989-90 animated TV series of the same name. The film stars John Mulaney and Andy Samberg as the voices of the title characters Chip and Dale, with Eric Bana, Flula Borg, Dennis Haysbert, Tress MacNeille, Tim Robinson, Robert De Niro, Christina Hendricks, Gabriel Iglesias, Kenan Thompson, Zachary Levi, Walton Goggins, Matthew McConaughey, P!nk, and KiKi Layne in supporting roles. The film is co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman's Mandeville Films, in association with The Lonely Island (Schaffer and Samberg are both members of this group).

The film takes place two years after the events of the first film, and revolves around Chip and Dale, who have now reconciled their differences and restarted their acting career, as they plan to turn their detective business they play on TV into an actual organization, only to be called into action when an old nemesis of theirs plots to become the supreme and richest businessman of Hollywood by purchasing every major studio in the area via investing in the respective studios' stock markets. Like its predecessor, the film takes place in a world co-populated by humans and fictional characters from cartoons, TV shows, movies, and other forms of assorted media.

*Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2* had a limited theatrical run at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on August 4, 2025, and was released on August 8, 2025, as a Disney+ exclusive film. Like its predecessor, the film received positive reviews from critics and became the most-viewed film on Disney+ in the first few weeks of its release.

## Synopsis

Two years after the events of *Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers* (2022), cartoon chipmunk duo Chip and Dale have rekindled their long-gone friendship, and are now starring on a highly successful *Rescue Rangers* reboot television series alongside their friends Monterey Jack, Gadget Hackwrench, and Zipper, the latter two of whom are married and have 45 kids. In addition, the Rescue Rangers also have befriended Ellie Steckler, their most avid and loyal fan who, after successfully aiding the duo in apprehending the Valley Gang, started her own detective agency, dedicating herself to protecting innocent toons and keeping them from any form of harm possible. The Rescue Rangers themselves, because of this, decide they wanna turn their agency on TV into a real business, hoping to actually live out the life they portray on television to their fans, wanting to experience the adrenaline rush that their missions on *Rescue Rangers* give them. However, just as they plan to put that into motion, an old enemy of theirs named Barry Cunningham, a toon crime boss and owner of Cunningham's Casino, swings into action to not only get revenge on them for his prior defeat and arrest ten years earlier but to also purchase every major studio in Hollywood by investing in the respective studios' stock markets and become the richest and most supreme businessman in the entire area. Chip and Dale, with their fellow Rangers and other old friends, as well as some new ones, at their assistance, will call into action to stop Barry before he succeeds in his plan and every major Hollywood studio is under his ownership.

## Cast

* John Mulaney as Chip, a chipmunk and the heroic, level-headed leader and co-founder of the Rescue Rangers.
* Andy Samberg as Dale, a chipmunk and Chip's goofy, fun-loving best friend and co-founder of the Rescue Rangers. He is depicted in photorealistic computer animation, as opposed to the cel-shaded animation of the other members of the Rescue Rangers. This was due to him getting "CGI surgery" in the first film.
	+ Samberg also reprises his role as Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran from the *Hotel Transylvania* franchise.
* Eric Bana as Monterey Jack, an eccentric, cheese-loving Australian mouse and a member of the Rescue Rangers. He was originally voiced by Peter Cullen and Jim Cummings in the original series.
* Flula Borg as DJ Herzogenaurach, a German snake DJ and a big fan of Chip and Dale's, who often performs alongside them on music videos for songs for their *Rescue Rangers* reboot series' soundtrack.
* Dennis Haysbert as Zipper, a housefly who is a member of the Rescue Rangers, Gadget's husband, and the father to their 45 children. He speaks in a clear, intelligible, deep voice whenever he is off-camera.
	+ Corey Burton provides Zipper's unintelligible buzzes from the original series, and also reprises his role from the original series as Dale's chipmunk voice (credited as "High-pitched Dale").
* Tress MacNeille as Gadget Hackwrench
* Tim Robinson as Ugly Sonic
* Robert De Niro as Barry Cunningham