Chip and Dale has been good friends since back when they were school kids. But after the Rescue Rangers tv series ended so did they friendship and career. Chip went on to sell insurances but Dale stayed in the movie industry trying to get his big breakthrough. And now thirty years later they both get a call from their old friend Monterey Jack asking for help as his addiction to cheese has brought in trouble with a gang of bootleggers.
Another beloved cartoon from our childhoods revived into a movie that deletes its original concept. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers diminishes the original series and becomes a 2022 version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Though the plot is fine it is just not Rescue Rangers anymore. And then comes the graphics and animations. Rescue Rangers combines several animations styles with life action. But after all these years of animations they still have not learned how to make animations seemingly interact with real life objects. And the cartoonish animations are flat and boring; they lack both texture and grain. It looks like they have taken a discount window sticker and ran it through a cheap animation program. Even the mouth movement is laggy. On the other hand the 3D animations are hyper realistic and loses any charm the character design had. The worst part about the bad animations is that throughout the movie they make several jokes about bad animations in movies and how the movie industry ruins franchises by reviving them with bad graphics and animations. The animations are of course not as terrible as expressed but are actually completely adequate. I and many others have just come to expect more and better than what have been provided. And personally I am tired of production companies giving us flat uninteresting animations. It feels like animation studies no longer respect kids or their fans.
When all that is said it is still a fun movie with an okay plot. It is weird to hear the voices of Andy Samberg and John Mulaney come from Chip and Dale but Rescue Rangers are an adequate family movie. Not the movie expected from a Rescue Rangers movie but worth at least a two and a half star.
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