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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

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 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)   Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked  (2011) is the bottom of the barrel as kids' movies can go. A laugh-free, painful experience with no redeeming qualities to speak. It appeals only to kids who can't say no to crap or don't have any basic thinking skills to acknowledge crap when they see it. It pains me to know this movie was an immense success at the box office while at the same time being one of those kids who watched the film. I pity the parents dragged to the theaters by their kids, forced to watch this movie to please them. (I hope the sacrifice was worth it.)    Revisiting the  Alvin and the Chipmunks  film series is something of a difficult task. Not that it's hard to judge a dreadful series of kid's movies, but to watch them again and relive the unknown cringe that came with it. But we cannot just jump into this film right away; we have to look back at the origins of this series and why this movie stands out a