Thirty years after their popular television show ended, chipmunks Chip and Dale live very different lives. When a cast member from the original series mysteriously disappears, the pair must ... Read allThirty years after their popular television show ended, chipmunks Chip and Dale live very different lives. When a cast member from the original series mysteriously disappears, the pair must reunite to save their friend.Thirty years after their popular television show ended, chipmunks Chip and Dale live very different lives. When a cast member from the original series mysteriously disappears, the pair must reunite to save their friend.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total
Andy Samberg
- Dale
- (voice)
John Mulaney
- Chip
- (voice)
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
- (voice)
- …
Tress MacNeille
- High-Pitched Chip
- (voice)
- …
Tim Robinson
- Ugly Sonic
- (voice)
Seth Rogen
- Bob the Warrior Viking
- (voice)
- …
J.K. Simmons
- Captain Putty
- (voice)
Rachel Bloom
- Insurance Sheep
- (voice)
- …
Juliet Donenfeld
- Kid Dale
- (voice)
Liz Cackowski
- Cow Teacher
- (voice)
- …
Mason Blomberg
- Kid Chip
- (voice)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEarly in the film, Dale stars in his own show titled Double-0-Dale. In the early 90s, Disney was developing a show called Double-0-Duck. This idea was scrapped when it was discovered that the title "Double-0" is owned by the estate of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels. Double-0-Duck was reworked and became Darkwing Duck.
- GoofsThe Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers cartoon did in fact air on TV in Albany on WXXA FOX 23.
- Quotes
Lost Boy: Peter, is that really you? You got old.
Sweet Pete: Yeah, death is coming for us all kid.
- Crazy creditsSPOILER: There is a scene in the closing credits: a Rescue Rangers reunion panel takes place at a fan convention, while they are booed from across the hall by Darkwing Duck, who wants his own show. This is a possible reference to Disney Plus's plans for a Darkwing Duck reboot produced by Bob's player Seth Rogen.
- ConnectionsFeatured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Chip 'n Dale's Cartoon Palooza (2022)
Featured review
With a solid cast, strong visuals, and a creative adventure, the movie delivers on all fronts.
Having become best friends since elementary school rambunctious goofball Dale (Andy Samberg) and mature down to earth Chip (John Mulaney) hone their talents and go to Hollywood where they eventually land their own hit TV show with Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers in the late 80s. After season three where Dale bailed on the show to pursue his own pet project Double-0-Dale, the show was cancelled leading to a falling out between Chip and Dale. Now present day Dale banks off the nostalgia of fans through social media and fan conventions while Chip works as an insurance salesman. When former cast member Monterrey Jack (Eric Bana) is kidnapped Chip and Dale decide to reunite to help look for him with the help of LAPD ally Det. Ellie Steckler (KiKi Layne). They soon find out that Peter "Sweet Pete" Pan (Will Arnett) is behind not only Monterey's disappearance, but the disappearance of several other toons where they're being "bootlegged" by being kidnapped and forced to star in cheap foreign knock-offs.
Running from 1989 through 1990, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers was one of a number of iconic Disney produced TV series that made up the programming block The Disney Afternoon and became a mainstay of children's TV both in first run syndication as well as subsequent re-airings on Disney Channel and Disney XD (Fka Toon Disney). Development began on an adaptation of the series in 2014 with Robert Rugan slated to write and direct the film as an origin story for the Rescue Rangers done in the style of the 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks film with fully CGI rendered models, this version got stuck in development limbo and was scrapped with project successor Akiva Schafer replacing Rugan, and writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand where the film would be a more self-referential and "meta" take on thye property similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Looney Tunes: Back in Action wherein the film creates a world where cartoons are treated like "real" people. Andy Sandburg, who had worked with Schafer on films such as Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, was cast as Dale while John Mulaney was cast as Chip. Now arriving on Disney+, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers delivers in the best possible way.
The movie is really solid, despite being marketed as a commentary on reboots the movie doesn't build itself upon references alone and remembers to build characters and a story around its references. Both John Mulaney and Andy Samberg have great chemistry as Chip and Dale respectively with Mulaney's more sardonic style well suited to Chip's grounded and serious nature while Samberg fits Dale's laid back and care free personality excellently. You really buy the two of them as former friends who've had a falling out and they make for an engaging duo making good jokes even better and bad jokes tolerable (though there aren't too many of those). The movie keeps itself to a lean 90 minutes and avoids many of the ramble and awkward pause type jokes you see in a lot of comedies of this type which is a major plus in its favor. The mixture of animation styles on display be it Dale's CGI model or Chip's traditionally animated model work great in the context of the world created with lots of fun references in both the foreground and background that I'm sure will lend themselves well to repeated viewings. The supporting cast are well utilized with the likes of J. K. Simmons, Keegan-Michael Key, Eric Bana, and Dennis Haysbert put to excellent use (so nice to see J. K. Simmons in a good movie after the awful Marmaduke), but stealing every scene he's in is undeniably Will Arnett as a villainous older pot bellied version of Peter Pan named "Sweet Pete" who's plan is basically kidnapping and mutilating cartoon characters and forcing them to star in Video Brinquedo or Dingo Pictures level schlocky rip-off animated films being a delightfully silly but slightly macabre plan that lends itself to solid humor. In many ways Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers feels like the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action clearly wanted to be but wasn't.
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers is a lot of fun. From its solid cast, rapid fire pace, creatively realized world filled with background and foreground details, and solid humor, the movie gives you not only the best version of this take you didn't know you wanted. I really enjoyed this movie and can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone.
Running from 1989 through 1990, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers was one of a number of iconic Disney produced TV series that made up the programming block The Disney Afternoon and became a mainstay of children's TV both in first run syndication as well as subsequent re-airings on Disney Channel and Disney XD (Fka Toon Disney). Development began on an adaptation of the series in 2014 with Robert Rugan slated to write and direct the film as an origin story for the Rescue Rangers done in the style of the 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks film with fully CGI rendered models, this version got stuck in development limbo and was scrapped with project successor Akiva Schafer replacing Rugan, and writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand where the film would be a more self-referential and "meta" take on thye property similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Looney Tunes: Back in Action wherein the film creates a world where cartoons are treated like "real" people. Andy Sandburg, who had worked with Schafer on films such as Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, was cast as Dale while John Mulaney was cast as Chip. Now arriving on Disney+, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers delivers in the best possible way.
The movie is really solid, despite being marketed as a commentary on reboots the movie doesn't build itself upon references alone and remembers to build characters and a story around its references. Both John Mulaney and Andy Samberg have great chemistry as Chip and Dale respectively with Mulaney's more sardonic style well suited to Chip's grounded and serious nature while Samberg fits Dale's laid back and care free personality excellently. You really buy the two of them as former friends who've had a falling out and they make for an engaging duo making good jokes even better and bad jokes tolerable (though there aren't too many of those). The movie keeps itself to a lean 90 minutes and avoids many of the ramble and awkward pause type jokes you see in a lot of comedies of this type which is a major plus in its favor. The mixture of animation styles on display be it Dale's CGI model or Chip's traditionally animated model work great in the context of the world created with lots of fun references in both the foreground and background that I'm sure will lend themselves well to repeated viewings. The supporting cast are well utilized with the likes of J. K. Simmons, Keegan-Michael Key, Eric Bana, and Dennis Haysbert put to excellent use (so nice to see J. K. Simmons in a good movie after the awful Marmaduke), but stealing every scene he's in is undeniably Will Arnett as a villainous older pot bellied version of Peter Pan named "Sweet Pete" who's plan is basically kidnapping and mutilating cartoon characters and forcing them to star in Video Brinquedo or Dingo Pictures level schlocky rip-off animated films being a delightfully silly but slightly macabre plan that lends itself to solid humor. In many ways Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers feels like the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action clearly wanted to be but wasn't.
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers is a lot of fun. From its solid cast, rapid fire pace, creatively realized world filled with background and foreground details, and solid humor, the movie gives you not only the best version of this take you didn't know you wanted. I really enjoyed this movie and can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone.
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- May 21, 2022
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- Chip y Dale: Al rescate
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- $70,000,000 (estimated)
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- $623,190
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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