Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
It's an uninspired and instantly forgettable film. But it completely succeeds by its own standards: an 87-minute rainy-day distraction that will probably make a zillion dollars.
– Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Dec 2011
rotten:
"Chipwrecked" serves up more of the derivative chaos that floats this franchise's boat.
– Sean O'Connell,
Washington Post,
16 Dec 2011
rotten:
You usually have to go to an Adam Sandler movie, or the Quad Cinema, to see something as incompetently made as "Alvin and the Chipmunks.''
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
16 Dec 2011
rotten:
The obvious nods to Castaway, Lost and other pop culture references are barely worth a grin.
– Jennie Punter,
Globe and Mail,
16 Dec 2011
rotten:
Flails about in search of a creative reason to exist.