Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
6/10
Starring the voices of
John Mulaney
Andy Samberg
Will Arnett
Eric Bana
Keegan-Michael Key
Directed by Akiva Schaffer
From The Disney
Afternoon comes this live-action/animated action-adventure comedy based on Chip
and Dale’s detective life. The animation, story, and voice acting are amazing.
You’ll love the comedy and the way the characters are developed. This world is
so inviting and easy to follow; it’s a movie that adults won’t mind watching
along with their children.
The Disney Afternoon
is from the '90s and was a two-hour daily TV block of fun Disney animated
series. Over the years, the block featured DuckTales, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles,
and many more. This movie focuses on one animated series from the block: Chip
n' Dale: Rescue Rangers. I loved watching the group pick up the slack and solve
crimes the real police failed to close. I enjoyed their many adventures and
lived off reruns.
In a way, this movie
feels like a spiritual successor to 1988’s
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with Disney’s legal team working to get as
many animated characters as possible from other studios to make this movie’s
world-building fit. The world-building is similar to Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, where animations live in the same world as humans,
and their animation jobs are to work as entertainers.
We get to see the
life behind the two chipmunks, Chip and Dale. We learn how they met when they
were young and how they became a comedy pair. Their work landed them the gig
with Disney to play the leads in the series Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers. Dale
felt he was living in Chip’s shadow and wanted to venture on his own with his
own solo show, which led to their show being canceled and his show never going
past the pilot phase. The group part ways, with Gadget and Flipper getting
married, and Jack going on his merry way with an addiction problem. The two
leads no longer talk.
Now, in the present
(many years later), Chip is working as an insurance salesperson, and Dale is
still doing as many little gigs as possible to pay the bills while trying to
revive the glory days. Chip gets a call from Monterey Jack, who’s in big
trouble with a loan shark. Jack owes Sweet Pete a lot of money because of his
cheese addiction, and if he doesn’t pay, he’s going to be bootlegged. Chip
shows up, hears the story, and then Dale also shows up because Jack called the
two for help. Chip leaves, believing it was a plan to get them together and
patch things up. He later gets a call from Dale that Jack has been taken. The
two must team up to find their friend.
The movie is
available to stream on Disney+.
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