Review: Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks “Gone Gal;Time Traveler’s Party”

Overview

“Gone Gal”
After a big fight with Miss Miller, Miss Croner hides out in the chipmunk’s treehouse to make Miss Miller worried…

“Time Traveler’s Party”
Alvin bets Simon that time traveling is possible and hires an actor to pose as one, but a real one shows up…


Our Take

For the first episode, while the title itself obviously parodies that shitty Toxic feminity film “Gone Girl”, But thankfully, much of the proceedings were a series of comedic mishaps, misunderstandings and dumb jokes often at Theodore’s expense who ends up having to be terrorized by Miss Croner’s cats, with the Chippettes not being idiots easily seeing through Alvin’s bullshit due to the immaturity of Miss Croner hiding in a kids tree house to avoid criticism over some past drama, but near the end it did give me a chuckle with how it settled things…

As for 2nd one, the humor was mostly built around a small bet between Alvin and Simon with the twist that escalates into something wacky and ridiculous but at east it was mildly entertaining. The weirdest part that stood out for me the most was that the Time Traveler’s voice sounded like John Travolta doing a Christopher Walken impression with the weird running joke of that character having an obsession with Water and how the situation build’s up to something legitimately funny for once…

Overall, both episodes were passable even if the 2nd one was wacky in it’s proceedings. Years ago I thought this show ended it’s run but much to my surprise it’s still ongoing even long after those live action Alvin movies that starred Jason Lee as Dave, ran their course in 2015. But I can understand the concept of keeping a legacy alive as this show is currently the goldmine of Bagdasarian Productions with longtime couple Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Karman currently at the helm.