Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers(2022)

_Rescue Rangers_ throws all of these ideas and characters at a wall to see what sticks and before they can process what works and what doesn’t they’re already throwing another pile at the wall; it’s too much to digest and too much of a good thing all at once. _Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers_ is a film that distracts itself from telling its own story. It has some fun moments, but its absent-minded storytelling is too…

Reviewed on May 22, 2022

A rare squalor turned out, of course. The characters are like pictures of a bad artist, flat and empty. Facial expressions and forms are alien. There is no aesthetic admiration for this attempt at expression in 3d. No grace and beauty. There is no depth and love, an adequate plot. Inappropriate flat humor. A fierce mockery of the innermost. A ridiculous untalented division without a sense of beauty, reminiscent of…

Reviewed on May 25, 2022

When Chip 'N Dale was first conceptualized, the writers needed to make a decision: would this movie be primarily made for those who had watched Rescue Rangers as children, or would it attempt to reboot the duo for a new generation? Sadly, it would seem the writers chose to do both. Chip 'N Dale is a movie packed to the gills with decades of animation jokes and easter eggs, yet ultimately it cements itself as a…

Reviewed on May 31, 2022

The script feels like it needed a bit longer in the oven, riddled with half-developed ideas. Neat premises, sloppy execution. Never quite nails down its dramatic tension as well as I wished. Nevertheless, very ambitious with its scale in variation in animation, and most of it works well! J.K. Simmons Gumby alone made this worth watching for me.

Reviewed on September 12, 2022