Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

"It's not a reboot. It's a comeback."

2022 1h 39m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 1,439

AnimationFamilyComedyAdventureMystery

Synopsis

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Decades since their successful television series was canceled, Chip has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend’s life.

“It's not a reboot. It's a comeback.”

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Cast

Andy Samberg
Dale (voice)
John Mulaney
Chip (voice)
KiKi Layne
Ellie Steckler
Will Arnett
Sweet Pete (voice)
Eric Bana
Monterey Jack (voice)
Flula Borg
DJ Herzogenaurach (voice)
Dennis Haysbert
Zipper (voice)
Keegan-Michael Key
Frog Co-Worker / Bjornson the Cheesemonger (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Akiva Schaffer
Writers: Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Dan Jeup
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $70M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 1% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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4 / 8

CAST

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318+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Akiva Schaffer, shot by Larry Fong. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

ERA

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Editor Brian Scott Olds shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Andy Samberg and John Mulaney and KiKi Layne carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Akiva Schaffer directs. Larry Fong behind the camera. Brian Tyler scores. Brian Scott Olds cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $70M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 1% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 4 years ago.
4318+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Akiva Schaffer, shot by Larry Fong. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Brian Scott Olds shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Andy Samberg and John Mulaney and KiKi Layne carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "It's not a reboot. It's a comeback.".
10IMDB entry: tt3513500 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 10 themes, including "cartoon", "los angeles, california", "former best friend", "missing person".
12Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Larry Fong
Original score: Brian Tyler
Editing: Brian Scott Olds
Production design: Steve Saklad
Costume design: Rahel Afiley
Makeup / hair: Roxane Griffin
VFX supervisor: Steve Preeg
Sound: Michael Semanick
Stunt coordinator: Ryan Sturz
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $70,000,000
Box office: $623,190
Return: 1% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)

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Chris Sawin2022-05-22
★ 5/10
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 overwhelming to ignore or fully enjoy. Full review: hubpages.com/entertainment/Chip-n-Dale-Rescue-Rangers-2022-Review-A-Badly-Drawn-Poorly-Written-Mostly-Animated-Reboot
Jordan_Gadger2022-05-25
★ 2/10
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 the very pirated products from the movie. They piled everything up and made an unintelligible dump. A bunch of some defective characters, like that Sonic who talks about the existence of the original Sonic, by the way... They ridiculed the key points, just for fun, quite unreasonably, only comedy is completely out of place here, as are the creators-comedians. And all this, of course, under the sauce "We love Rescuers". Well, well... We couldn't do it, in general, for real. In a Disney way. Only that picture was remembered, which hung on the wall of the actor Roquefort. And how wonderful it would be if the whole movie was of this style and with an adequate plot. Fortunately, this is not an original reality that could continue the canon. To understand this substitution, which tried to continue the series, it is enough to see in the film an episode with the participation of Akiva Shaffer, who allegedly filmed the original series in 1990, damn it. That's the only thing I thank him for.
bcorrel22022-05-31
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 children's movies, utilizing the same cringeworthy cliches that every other children's movie utilizes. This is only further exasperated by KiKi Layne's terrible performance as Ellie, so much so that I believe the total removal of her character would vastly improve the film. Going into this movie I thought it had the makings of this generation's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. After seeing it, I now know that this movie will be relegated to the children's section and quickly forgotten.