| Overall: | B |
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| Violence: | B |
| Sexual Content: | A- |
| Language: | A- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B- |
| Run Time: | 92 |
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| Video Release: | 31 Mar 2008 |
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Other cartoon characters have had their day on the big screen. Underdog, based on the 1960’s cartoon, is a crime-fighting canine out to save the city. In The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, the animated moose and flying squirrel from Frostbite Falls get their own theatrical release. And in Hoodwinked, an updated version of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, a squirrel has a similar reaction to the chipmunks after downing his own cup of coffee.
Home Video Extra Features
Alvin and the Chipmunks releases as single flipper disc, offering the movie in both full screen (1.31:1 aspect ratio) and widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) formats. Bonus materials include the featurettes: Chip-Chip-Hooray!, Chipmunk History and Hitting the Harmony. Audio tracks are available in 5.1 Dolby Surround (English) and Dolby Surround (Spanish and French), with subtitles in English and Spanish.
The Alvin and the Chipmunks: Special Edition 2-Disc DVD
If your little chipmunks want more, they can sink their teeth into the 2-Disc Special Edition, which offers the movie in a widescreen format (1:85.1 aspect ratio) with the following special features: Digital Copy Download, Behind the Nuts Munkumentary, Chip-Chip-Hooray!, Chipmunk History and Hitting the Harmony, plus the music video Witch Doctor and two iTunes¨ music downloads (Get MunkÕd and Get You GoinÕ). Audio tracks are available in 5.1 Dolby Surround (English) and Dolby Surround (Spanish and French), with subtitles in English and Spanish.
The Alvin and the Chipmunks: Blu-ray Disc
The Alvin and the Chipmunks also releases on Blu-ray in a widescreen format (25GB single-layer disc authored in AVC—MPEG 4 compression). Other extras to go nuts over are: Digital Copy Download, Chip-Chip-Hooray!, Chipmunk History, Hitting the Harmony and several high-definition trailers. Audio tracks are available in 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio (English) and 5.1 Dolby Digital (Spanish and French), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and French.
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About the Reviewer: Kerry Bennett
Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.
