Alvin & the Chipmunks News

This holiday weekend, there are some exciting big movies getting wide release. From family and adult comedies to action to musicals, there really is something for everyone.

Entertainment Tonight Headlines Meet the Chippettes of 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel'! ";" src="http://www.etonline.com/media/video/2009/12/129562/et_chipmunksjunket_091223_large.jpg" style="border-width:0px;" /> Alvin and the Chipmunks are back on the big screen for a holiday "squeakquel," in theaters now, and this time they've got some ...

22, 2009 6:04PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 2:27AM EST A lvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Directed by Betty Thomas Written by Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger Classification: G Two stars As shrill, partly-animated musicals about singing vermin go, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel really isn't all that bad.

With a socko $16.4 million domestically on Monday, Twentieth Century Fox's "Avatar" continued its box office juggernaut and should win the Christmas weekend as well -- but there's plenty of competition, as Santa will be delivering a sleigh full of new titles.

All Ross Bagdasarian Jr. wanted to do in the late-70s was pay tribute to his father, Ross Bagdasarian Sr., the man who created Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Whether it's 'White Christmas' by Bing Crosby, 'Silver Bells' by Johnny Mathis, 'Frosty the Snowman' by Gene Autry or 'The Chipmunk Song' by Alvin and the Chipmunks, let's face it, everybody loves a Christmas song.

Come on, folks, don't say "Alvin and the Chipmunks" didn't warn you. If you've managed to make it through the past 50 years without experiencing the peculiar helium twang of these relentlessly chipper animated rodents, then your American-kitsch quotient is teetering in the low teens.

The tune selection might be different, but otherwise it's the same old song with "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," which Fox opens on Wednesday.

The story of a teenage dog who likes to surf, hang it loose and kick it with his homies, Marmaduke is the long-awaited adaptation of the popular newspaper comic strip started in 1954 by Brad Anderson.

Can't wait to take the kiddies to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie that opens Dec.

Everyone's favorite testy little alien will try to land on the big screen yet again.

A 20th Century Fox release of a Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises presentation of a Bagdasarian Co.

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More on this film Such plot as this truly terrible, utterly witless comedy has concerns the computer-generated singing chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, going to a Los Angeles high school where, the principal hopes, they'll win a $25,000 singing contest that will save the school's music programme.

They're not big, and the film's certainly not clever, but there is something oddly entertaining about singing chipmunks.

So it was with some glee that his Maricopa County office announced Thursday in a red-and-green press release that the "sixth and perhaps final lawsuit" brought by inmates to stop the sheriff from playing the holiday songs all day, every day, during the holidays had been dismissed in federal court.

THOSE cinema-goers still having nightmares about Christmas 2007 should look away now.

With Jason Lee, Justin Long, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler; directed by Betty Thomas.

Also features Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson. 158 minutes. 1 1/2 stars. Carmike Village 5. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel Opens Wednesday.

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL * DIRECTED BY: BETTY THOMAS STARRING: JASON LEE, ZACHARY LEVI, DAVID CROSS CONFESSION time: I didn't see Alvin and the Chipmunks, the 2007 cinematic incarnation of the helium-pitched, pop star rodents that have been terrorising generations of kids with their irritating novelty act since the late 1950s.