Review: Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks “Temporary Mom”

Yo, mom.

Overview (Possible Spoilers Below)

Due to a business trip that Dave is taking for the weekend, the boys get stuck with the well-intentioned yet absent-minded Miss Miller as their babysitter which results in them taking matters into their own hands to find a replacement online.

They do spend most of the running time with each of them picking out the “Temporary Mom” of their choices with Alvin’s choice being an athletic lady who loves sports, but comes off as aggressively masculine and insensitive to Theodore which results in him putting his foot down when she frequently shames him for crying.

The 2nd choice chosen by Theodore is a middle-aged Russian who comes off as overprotective and even overreacts by tying all 3 of them to a Tree. But the 3rd one chosen by Simon who’s an English-speaking science girl comes off as harmless but freaks them out when they misinterpret some words involving “Scanning their brains” until Miss Miller finally comes through, but the episode kinda ends when Dave returns and the boys later turn down Dave’s offer to find a different babysitter.

Our Take

While it was somewhat clever & subtle that they’d insert their Iconic “Witch Doctor” song, we do get an obligatory musical montage of them dreaming of the possibility of a mother-like figure since they don’t really have one, but aren’t particularly fond of Miss Miller who clearly is unfit as a Babysitter as Alvin predicted early-on, but kinda redeems herself in the end.

I wanted to like this episode, but it felt unrealistic that an athletic woman would be this insensitive to the childlike Theodore after tackling him, and I’m surprised he wasn’t crushed for how towering the human characters are in this series compared to the titular chipmunks.

Score
7/10