The Reel Rejects - Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers MOVIE REVIEW! Instant Thoughts After First Watch!

Episode Date: May 21, 2022

This was such a fun surprise! With a slew of animation styles colliding & character appearances ranging from the beloved to the infamous, Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers follows Andy Samberg's Dale & John Mulaney's Chip as they unravel a mystery through the back-alleys of a treacherous film industry... Insert requisite comparison to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Here's our review!! And SPOILERS AHEAD!!! 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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Chippendale Rescue Rangers. 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

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so what do you think about this whole Amber heard trial oh let me I have many thoughts and opinions I would like to express on that all right guys Stick around for our Amber Heard Johnny Debtron. That's what you came to this to review for. Oh, man. Yeah, that was good.

I think they even snuck a little yorma to-cone voice cameo at the end. Man, that was great. That was dazzling. That was delightful. Other D-word to complete alliteration. Dale Riffick. Chiptacular. Monterey

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have a new technique. 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. Vega, 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 Chippendale.

They're like, oh, they're doing something. movie about the chip and dale show yeah so yeah and I didn't know for a while that oh it's about the chipmunks and so going into this there's very little things I had heard about it other than I people word a mouth on it was that it was a really good movie that it was great I wasn't aware of the voice actors wasn't aware of any of that and as he saw on our reaction if you stuck around for it we have a podcast by the way real rejects podcast people who are already here for the podcast are like why are you mentioned this It's because it's going up on YouTube.

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So, yeah, I thought that this film was really delightful. I did not expect 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, yeah. Some devious scheme is happening in the skeevy part of Toon Town, and we've got to figure out what it is and stop it.

But 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. 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.

It was like Daffy. That's right. Yeah, it was like the first. It was a big moment for crossover. Right, right. But still like. this is way, you know, further down that revolution. 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 Gumby like. Yeah. And the way they utilize everything. seem to be not just like obvious jokes, but a genuine sense of adoration for it all, which made it that much more complimented. Like, 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, like not just as a commentary of the other 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 Samburg and the and the, I mean that's a father and son's story but the dynamics of, you know, having Andy Samburg 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. Now 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 like 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 in only Easter eggs and only cameos and fun appearances and quick little nods, quick little one-liners. they still made it a story that honored the LA cop genre you know I thought it was really inventive and exciting and funny and the way they the way they did their meta commentary was was wonderful like 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 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 it. Yeah I thought this was pretty inspired overall 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 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 and yet somehow I felt like they really knew

where to lean into the cartoon and when to lean out of the cartoon and to take certain aspects seriously or to at least treat them with the credence of characters who actually care. And yeah, it reaches this nice... 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. And they're letting Chip and Dale their emotional journey and their relationship story grow at a very natural pace 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. But yeah, it's that, 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, you know, 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 a friend uh our friend erika 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. 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, you know, another thing that Roger Rabbit did really well is,

yeah, I really believe that just all these people kind of coincide together. Yeah. And 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. I mean, they have 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 it was shot had such specificity to it. It wasn't just like some flat-looking film. And I feel like a long time, you kind of would, but they really had great 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 it's like Roger Rabbit that's in Toon Town or whatever right what's it called? Yeah there's Tune Town I can't remember what like major US

city it's supposed to be kind of a part of well they eventually get like really embodied there were here you stay in L.A. the whole time. Yeah, yeah. And I thought, 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 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 they're 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 Schaefer 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 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 whatever it is at the time are like really deliberate and 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 who won't get? Yeah, that was, 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, you know, 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 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 commentary they make, A, they do a good job with characters, even with Sweet Pete. Like, I think they, the way they use their comedy is, 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 knock off, you know. Oh, the bootleg. the boot legs yeah the way they talk about those um the way they do talk about animation and such is all it viewed in in what the characters are going through in the moment

and like even with the rap you know like 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 without ever making it just something that is talking to the audience when the joke is clearly a meta joke and I think too you know even sometimes there's

it feels like it's more fleshed out and has more depth than the film 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. Going 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. This is a crossover catastrophe when he's that big villain at the end. It's an IP mismatch. 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 okly sonic at some point oh we as many 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 was on I don't know I don't know I've got to focus my voice here yeah so um the the uh what we're just

saying before I mentioned ugly Sonic oh the IPs yeah all the 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, we have Marvel and Star Wars, let's do that. And they never went down that path. They 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. Yeah.

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 that. I don't remember them being there. The Star Wars is toward the beginning at the convention when they cut to the two mice, literal mice. Oh, yeah, yeah. But even that is not the most obvious, like, you know, 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. Yeah. 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 convention. 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 a 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 that aren't included in Fox that are in here, as much as there are a lot of Fox and other characters.

Well, there's Dreamworks, too, and there's E.T. There's a lot. Sonic is paramount. 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 guts a lot of respect. and 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. And it's like, oh, that's so funny. 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, older, fatter. Creepier. Creeper, 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 approving 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 helps save the day.

So there is a bit of like we're not punching down too hard. Like we're acknowledging that Ugly Sonic is Ugly Sonic. but also, hey, 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 part of me hopes they brought some people back

who worked on the original ugly Sonic model to 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, you know, animation department is like, we're like overworked and underappreciated and underpaid, blah, blah, blah. So I really hope that in a movie With 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 there they're the fact that they're talking about and they mention 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 was this was a surprise I thought I thought like we've been walking and 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, they just never watched them. What channel were they on? Disney? Disney Channel?

Or was it? ABC watching 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 and 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 I don't know. 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 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 brought me a lot of joy I can't wait to watch it again Again, I can't wait to show it to people. And two, 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 celebrity cast, I thought was really well chosen. Like Eric Banner, I was sitting there going, is that one of the other? the original voice actress 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?

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