you know the old saw about a train wreck . the one about how you can not look away . this movie isn not that good . the only reason youre still there be because you bring your kid and you can not leave them alone in the theater . you might catch a nap . tim hill should never work in film again after deliver this awful piece of junk . he manage to take a decent comic actor in jason lee and turn him into a robotic and unsure actor in this production . i do not have much hope for this movie in the first place and i admit . if it weren not basically the only family film i could take my son to around christmas and my wife and i wouldn not have go . god and i wish we could go back in time and stop ourselves . i lean over to my wife about 10 minute in to tell her what a stinker i think it be and but she beat me to the punch . i be not kid . it putrid . only david cross terrific a usual work save this review from be only 1 star . the story be cloy and insulting and stupid and a might be expect for a movie in this genre ( although the recent curious george be blissfully intelligent and enjoyable ) . the acting be mostly poor . the decision to update the chipmunk song for today audience be inadvisable at best and boneheaded at bad . it do not work . the chipmunk of old be clever and mischievous and sly . these chipmunk be dumb and somewhat mean spirit and obnoxious and and in a surprise and needy to the point of uselessness . either a a retrospect and a tribute and or a a completely new production and this film totally fail . the final straw . my son couldn not wait to leave . spend your money rent curious george instead .