Oh good grief. Alvin and The Chipmunks is being made into a live action movie with the Chipmunks as CGI characters. The folks over at Moviehole give us this:
80s phenomenon (though they actually first popped up in the 1950s), “Alvin and The Chipmunks” are headed to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tim Hill, who directed kiddish efforts “Muppets in Space” and “Garfield 2”, is being lined up to direct.
It’s funny, at the Films 4 Food Fest live Audio Edition we actually talked about old 80’s cartoon being made into modern films. I think this one is just a plain bad idea. Almost as bad as the Smurf trilogy coming our way (no, I’m not kidding). I think this has suck and disaster written all over it.
The problem is, as bad as the Garfield movies were (and believe me they were BAD), they made money. As long as a formula looks like it’ll make money… the studios will pump out more (and who can blame them? If I was making millions off of selling bags of my own crap… I’d keep selling bags of my own crap. Wouldn’t you?).
