The Reel Rejects - CHIP 'N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS (2022) Movie Review!

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

Andy Samberg & John Mulaney are The Rescue Rangers, Chip 'n Dale, in this magically madcap reboot of the beloved Disney series. Showcasing a dazzling array of animation styles and nods to characters across the pop-culture pantheon (UGLY SONIC!!!), this movie gave us more than we were expecting, and then some! Here's our discussion during the end credits as well as our overall review & breakdown of the movie. And, as always, REACTION HIGHLIGHTS for Chip 'N Dale are up on our YouTube Channel & the FULL LENGTH Stream Along where you sync up with your own copy to watch along with us can be found at Patreon.com/thereelrejects! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're going to do a movie reaction, and after the movie reaction, we're going to review it right away. If you want to catch the movie reaction, that's on YouTube.com slash the Real Rejects. But if you just want to hear a review, stick around. This is more to come We're listening to ourselves On our own headphones right now And it's bizarre It's weird

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That's what you came to this review for. Oh, man. Yeah, that was good. I think they even snuck a little Yorma. It was really great. Boyce cameo at the end.

Man, that was great. That was dazzling. That was delightful. Other D-word to complete alliteration. Dale Riffick. Chiptacular. Monterey. Nah, it'll come to me.

Montaragious. Montaragious, there you go. There might be a post-credit scene. There's modern-day times. There's got to be. Post credit scenes, modern day. A meta, self-aware post-credit scene. Boo!

Boom! Movie sucks now. Redo it. Release the post-credit scene cut. Release it. All right. Let's talk about it. All right.

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Yeah, okay, so as established in the beginning of this, I had my knowledge of Chippendale was about just, you know, like what they look like. I had when they made the joke about Chippendales, the Vegas show, And when I first heard there's a Chippendale trailer out, I thought it was about the Chippendale.

I thought that's exactly where my mind went. I didn't think it was about Chippin. I didn't hear it was from Disney Plus. I thought it was just Chippin' Dale. They're like, oh, they're doing some movie about the Chippendale show. So, yeah, and I didn't know for a while that, oh, it's about the Chitmunks. And so going into this, there was very little things I had heard about it other than I, people, word of mouth on it was that it was a really good movie that it was great i wasn't aware the

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yeah I I thought that this film was really delightful I did not expect

such such a meta Roger rabbit vibe through it all it's the

plot of Roger Rabbit in a lot of ways you know like tunes are being murdered

yeah some devious scheme is happening in the skeevy part of tune town and we got to figure out what it is and stop it but they they at least acknowledge Roger rabbit twice instead of ever making a direct joke about like oh this is a lot like the plot of Roger Rabbit uh that and it's that world of going through all the characters but the scope when the cameo started coming in was really surprising to me because of all the different IPs you know and it's like Roger Rabber very specific IP you were

dealing with if it's a Warren brothers movie it's only people in the Warner Brothers umbrella who you're dealing with. Well, Roger Rabbit did break ground in that they have that piano sequence where it's like Daffy and Donald. Yeah, it was like the first. It was a big moment for for crossover rights. Right, right.

But still like this is way you know, further down that. This still bridges a whole bunch of other types of animation style. Like I love how they made all these jokes of things you can make fun of over the years of the evolution of animation. You know, especially with the back in the day. And Sometimes movies still suffer with it.

That back in the day, CGI, dead eyes look of the uncanny valley, I thought it was awesome. All the different kinds of the stop motion animation with the Gumbi-like. And the way they utilize everything, there seemed to be not just like obvious jokes, but a genuine sense of adoration for it all,

which made it that much more complimented. And I think aesthetically the choice to make Dale the 3D animation and Chip keep him at his hand-drawn animation also worked so and well not just as a commentary of the way times have changed but also as a reflection of who these characters are two characters who are also stuck in the past

in their own different ways like Dale looks fondly upon it but is trying to capture the magic of the fame and success still so he's like selling out There's parts, it's funny because there were parts of it that were weirdly making me think of another Andy Sandberg movie called That's My Boy, you know, and everyone's favorite Adam Sandler joined too. There were parts of it were Dale, it was kind of like Andy's, it was for some reason making me think of the Andy Sandberg and the, and the, I mean, that's a father and son's story, but the dynamics of, you know, having Andy Sabberg and the way Chip is portrayed here, that's an R-rated kids, if you're listening to this. review. Don't watch that movie. No, this would be a good double feature.

Yeah, maybe, actually. Thematically, unlikely double features are underrated. Whereas Chip is stuck in the past, but in a grudging sort of way. Yeah, in a bitter kind of way. Yeah, I really think the way they are as characters is really fleshed out well.

And I thought keeping that the center and the focus instead of doing what a lot of these movies tend to fail at where they get so caught up and only Easter eggs and only cameos and fun appearances and quick little knots, quick little one-liners. They still made it a story that honored the L.A. cop genre, you know, I thought it was really inventive and exciting and funny. And the way they did their medic commentary was was wonderful like i i don't have any issues with this movie at all i don't even have i don't really have a single complaint i never found it annoying or anything i thought it was like

little nitpicks you can do but i think that would just be me trying to find something that i don't actually have a problem with yeah i thought this was pretty inspired overall and and yeah something i feel like especially i mean obviously roger rabbit is kind of the touchstone but there are other things that blend, you know, cartoon reality with real life or animated characters with real life. Yeah, Space Jam or even the Sonic movie recently is kind of an example of that.

And I feel like there is a tendency, and I guess you could look at Space Jam a new legacy and kind of see this happening where it's like they lean maybe a little too heavily into like, it's a cartoon, you know, there are no rules. We can have reckless abandon

for everything. And just dump you know, recognizable properties. like it's funny there's so many things you can sit during this movie and go it's that and it's that and it's that blinking you'll miss it um and yet somehow i felt like they really knew where to lean into the cartoon and when to lean out of the cartoon and and to take certain aspects seriously or to at least treat them with the credence of characters who actually care and uh and yeah it it it reaches this nice um it was it was like partway in it was like at the half hour or 25 minute mark where i was like, they're treating this like a real movie.

Yeah. And they're letting Chip and Dale their emotional journey and their relationship story grow at a very natural pace, whereas I feel like a lesser movie would try and fast track that stuff to get to all the fun gags and all the fun effects that, you know, we want to see and that are so dazzling to behold. Um, but yeah, it's that, uh, you know, simplicity at the core of them having to confront and really understand both their own feelings about each other as well as themselves. and open up about all that stuff

but it's also that they're trying to help one of their immediate team and so while it's not like being back in the cartoon it does have this really natural core to ground it and then you have all the extra fun around that and yeah I thought this built it's funny there are a lot of similarities for Roger Rabbit but I thought this built really nicely

and justified its existence by lovingly and beautifully combining so much and really going to show and we were talking with our friend Erica a while ago who kind of put it to us this way that like a lot of people mistake animation for a genre when really it's a medium all unto itself and this is a really great example of that because you see hand-drawn 2D animation from all different eras from like the hose style in black and white to the more modern style that looks like it's done on a computer to things in between and then you have the claymation and you have this 3D and there are multiple approaches to all those things so much so that that uncanny valley I was like wow you guys left no stone unturned in really looking at the growth of animation in all its different facets over time and incorporating those and making those characters feel alive and treating each of their realities or each of their forms as just part of this world and so that's another thing that Roger Rabbit did really well is yeah I really believe that just all these people kind of coincide together Yeah, as opposed

of just breaking the wall And making some obvious joke Yeah, it's like it's weird It's like it is a cartoon But it doesn't feel as much like a cartoon As like a lot of other things can Because yeah, it is like I want to go to that world

It feels so tangible, you know Puppets too And puppets, yeah I was thinking of the Happy Time murders I was like this is way more palatable Than the Happy Time murders even And it's doing parts of what that movie Kind of tried to do

Well, I love that the way way it was shot had such specificity to it it wasn't just like some flat looking film and they feel like a long time you kind of would but they really they really had great like symmetry and lighting to complement each scene so when they're blending the animations even though it takes place in los angeles whereas not to just keep making this comparison roger rabbit or like roger rabbit that's in tune town or whatever right what's it called yeah there's tune town i can't remember what like major u.s. city it's supposed to be kind of a part of well they eventually get like really embodied there where here you stay in l.a the whole time

yeah yeah and and and i thought that you know the way they blended the animation and there looked seamless it didn't look weirdly misplaced or just some added on thing in post it still felt part of a world yeah to the point that you'd have like i was noticing that it there's moments where like a CG rendered character or a 3D meant to look like I kept marveling and wondering how they achieved some of these things or what their approach was because like when a CG character picks up a 2D animated character there's something about even that where I'm like you could probably and it probably is all done in the same effects render shot on a computer and yet somehow it looks like you did a layer where there's a

CG character and then you did a different layer where there's a hand-drawn character and that again, just lends more and more credibility to the interlocking and the interplay of all these different styles and effects and whatnot. And yeah, like, this was not to slight Akiva Shaefer whatsoever because the Lonely Island has always had film style as part of their repertoire of comedy. And I've very much enjoyed several of the comedies. He's directed with that crew. But this one was one where I was like, man, the choices of lenses and angles to, again, lend credibility and to really make you feel like you are in a detective story or an L.A. movie or or whatever it is at the time are, like, really deliberate.

And I forget the cinematographer's name off the top of my head. I mean, that's another, you know, sort of a guy who's got a lot of big credits under his belt. But still, it was, yeah, it was so much more crafted and cinematic than this movie had to be, because I'm sure it would be very easy to dish this out and put it on Disney Plus and plop your kids in front of it. But, yeah, this is, like they... Well, am I thinking, like, a lot of the jokes kids won't get? Yeah. I was surprised. It's like it is trying to play to everybody in a sense, but it's not trying to be too much for kids. To the point where I was like, I feel like the Ellie character is almost here to she has this sort of very incredibly genuine and sort of dough-eyed quality about her. And I feel like that is kind of the part where it's like, okay, we've got to kind of anchor this so it's still a bit of a family movie. But even still, it's got that edge and that sense that we're not trying to sanitize it too much. And we're not trying to sanitize it too much. And we're not trying to.

to get too edgy in a way where it's like you can tell we want to go further but we can't you know like i felt like they had a good grip on how adults could enjoy this and how kids could enjoy this well the the commentary they make a they do a good job with characters even with sweet pete and i think they the way they use their comedy is uh and the commentary specifically is through these characters and how one hasn't caught up with the times and the other one is trying to keep up with the times. So the way they do talk about reboots and those knockoff, you know. Oh, the bootleg, yeah, animated movies and stuff.

Yeah, the way they talk about those, the way they do talk about animation and such, is all imbued in what the characters are going through in the moment. moment the and like even with the rap you know making fun of that the the idea of reboots yeah like ending on that note that's almost like an adaptation ending of talking about what this film is yeah without ever making it just something that is talking to the audience when the when the joke is clearly a meta joke and I think too you know even sometimes there's a it feels like it's more fleshed out and has more depth than the film at it any need to really be but never got weighted down or slowed down by it even with sweet pete you know i thought that was cool to hewn a story

about him about peter growing up and becoming an old bitter man going through what a lot of child actors go through like what a lot of child actors go through and how he becomes the amalgamation of so many things that have gone wrong. Yeah, so many things have been extended and adapted and... This is a crossover catastrophe when he's that big villain at the end. IP mishmatch, it's like literally the nightmare that this could have become. Yeah, yeah, I think that's so smart. You know, like, I think Ralph breaks the internet did a really good job on, on that film,

I thought did a really good job on doing all the Disney spoofs and stuff. What I really liked about this one, too, was as many IPs as they, oh, we got to talk about Oakley Sonic at some point. Oh, we did. As many, as many IPs as they sweep across here. Yeah. As many as there are, actually, they have phones help me out there because I noticed my voice was traveling here when I was talking there.

So I don't know. Follow the base. I got to focus my voice here. So, the, the, uh, what were just saying? Before I mentioned ugly Sonic. Oh, the IPs. Yeah. Uh, with the IPs, they never went to,

unless I totally missed it as some random Easter egg, they never went to, Star Wars, and they never went to Marvel. They even did DC, but they didn't hone in on doing jokes that Disney nine times out of 10 would have, like, we have Marvel and Star Wars, let's do that. And they never went down that path. And I actually respected the restraint on that. Yeah, it's like they, I think they are in there, but it's not, and I love Free Guy,

but it's not Free Guy, where it's like, oh, I can tell the one sequence where this is after the Disney merger, and now we can do that. Whereas here, yeah, it's like, it's so, they, like, those things pop up, but there's so many other things that are popping up that are exciting that are featured that, yeah, get that attention. I don't remember the, I don't remember them being there. The Star Wars is, is toward the beginning at the convention when they cuts of the two mice, literal mice. Oh, yeah, yeah. But it's, but even that is not the most obvious, like, you know, it's, it's not like Dale pulls out a lightsaber at some point, like you would imagine a Star Wars not in a movie like this to be.

and I appreciate two again. They're also like a con, you know, so it works within there, yeah. Exactly. And it's so brief. It's not the focus. And I thought that was another nice choice is it makes a lot of sense for these characters to be at conventions and signing autographs and whatever.

And that gives you a chance to almost have your like goofy space jam background actors who just are people in cosplay but then also have the characters around in real form. And yeah, it creates a world. rather than a conveyor belt of references. And I love that in a day and age where it's like you have Space Jam and New Legacy where clearly that's Warner Brothers partially strutting their entire stable of IPs and characters. I am appreciative and I'm sure that perhaps the breadth of what Disney owns is probably beyond what I'm aware of. But it seems like they probably had to pay at least certain people to use their IPs.

There are definitely some Warner Brothers characters in here and there are definitely some characters There's the arts included in Fox that are in here, as much as there are a lot of Fox and other characters. There's DreamWorks, too. Yeah. There's E.T. They, there's a lot. Sonic is paramount. Sonic.

Yeah, yeah. And that's another example of like, you know, there's tons of Disney stuff in here. But I appreciate, and especially in some kind of spiritual Roger Rabbit's successor that, yeah, they went across the aisle, paid a little money to other people to bring the characters together. And I always feel like there's sort of a laying. down of the ego when that happens. Yeah, because this was about the animation departments. Yeah. You know, and I think that got to a lot

of respect. And the fact that they, the fact that they got to get ugly Sonic is so crazy to me because most of us can remember when that trailer came out and the outrage and the fact that they change the design because of the outrage.

And that's something they like tried to bury, like they hid that trailer. You know? And and then this character gets to live on and be a character and a different version of Sonic like a completely different version and still make fun of that

in a way that... It's like a recasting. Yeah, that only works because of that outrage. Yeah. Oh, that's so funny that they got to make a character out of this and it's the benefit of the outrage of what happened there.

It's kind of nuts. And the original designer, the original design of that kind of gets to live on, Even though they tweak it, they make them like taller, old, or fatter. Creepier. Creepier. Yeah, yeah.

But it's still honing in on that original design. That was actually a big surprise. Like that was one of the most surprising things because I was like, wow, I want to hear the conversation that led to them of proving that on both sides. Because that's, you know, a difficult moment, I'm sure for a lot of animators who worked on that and for the studio who put that out. And to come in and make Ugly Sonic an actual character. And also, I think it works because he helped save this. day so there is a bit of like a we're not punching down too hard like we're we're acknowledging that ugly sonic is ugly sonic but also this is actual supporting character in

a movie full of just blinking you'll miss it you know appearances as well well it's also like we're not going to let your character go to waste yeah yeah and i part of me hopes they brought some people back who worked on the original ugly sonic model yeah do all that stuff like i hope the animators on this movie were treated well because that's often a controversy just among any effects or animation department is like overworked and underappreciated and underpaid blah blah blah so I really hope that in a movie

was such celebration that the animators and that department all those people got to really embrace and feel the joy that they're delivering us with the movie sounds like they couldn't get Nickelodeon did there are Nickelodeon characters I don't remember there were some there were some I mean they definitely

they tell that whole story with Ellie's background but I don't recall seeing any characters. I don't, there probably are, I don't remember them being featured super prominently as like speaking or featured characters, but there are definitely some, you know, it's like the Squidward star on the Walk of Fame and they're, they're, there are. The fact that they're talking about and they mentioned Nickelodeon and yet there are a number of, I think even on the bootleg wall, there, I think like Jimmy Neutron was a Nick show. And yeah, there are definitely, there's a Nickelodeon presence. It's just not maybe the most prominent one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, this

This was a surprise. I thought, I thought, like, we'd been walking. So many people said it was good, but I didn't know what it was about, much about it. And as someone who wasn't a Chippendale fan growing up, not because they didn't like them, they never watched them. What channel were they on? Disney? Disney.

Or was it? ABC and I just didn't watch it in the morning. Because, yeah, there was a block where it was, oh, God, what was it? It was Rescue Rangers, like, Darkwing Duck and, uh, Duck Tales? I don't know sure. I feel like they might have been on the Disney Channel, but it could have been like an ABC Saturday morning block or something like that.

Or maybe they played in both places. For the longest time, there's only one TV in the house. I just didn't watch it. But this was great, and I hope people watch this movie because this was awesome. This was an awesome movie. This was really awesome. It's one of the best things I've seen all year. absolutely yeah this this brought me a lot of joy I can't wait to watch it again I can't wait to show it to people and too I appreciate like I thought the voice cast did a really good job because it's easy to fall in the hole of having a bunch of celebrity voices and not having it feel like a you know not missing actual voice actors and I know that there are probably arguments to be had about who gets included in a movie like this but I feel like they did have some also classic voice actors lending their talents as well definitely definitely but yeah even the celebrities

cast I thought was really well chosen like Eric Banna I was sitting there is that what are the original voice actors or is that and I didn't even recognize until the end yeah yeah so all right guys well what did you think about Chippendale rescue Rangers movie leave your thoughts down below is your childhood satisfied I mean mine is mine is without it playing the best possible outcome this is the best possible outcome for this uh hey let's Let's do a patron of the day, shout out. Everett Pixel Might Baker.

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