Move over Hannah Montana. Three pint-sized singers are staging a world tour, bringing their adorable sing-and-shimmy schtick to those without hypersensitive ears. 

You’re one of those parents? Then live action-animated hybrid Alvin and the Chipmunks might be aw-worthy enough to scoot on by without you finding fault in the slapped-together story, some lame childish gags and failed attempts at being as hip as, say, Hannah Montana. But even that’s a big, fat question mark.

At least there’s a (predictable) moral, folks: What really matters isn’t umpteen YouTube hits and being branded as a stuffed animal, and living large sure can’t beat all-you-can-eat waffles from “dad” Dave Seville (a likable Jason Lee of My Name Is Earl). Question is: Will Dave take Alvin, Simon and Theodore (voiced by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney) back with open arms?

Though the helium-voiced troublemakers helped the struggling songwriter score his first hit in years, the classic “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late),” nearly flooding his kitchen and having a field day with his “winter” stash wasn’t so cool. 
Other silly shenanigans – messing up Dave’s biz presentation and crashing a date of his – just added to the mess, causing him to throw his furry “kids” out of the house, and into the arms of his money-hungry boss (David Cross).

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