Director:
Tim Hill
In a tree farm, three musically inclined chipmunks, Alvin,
Simon and Theodore, find their tree cut down and sent to Los Angeles. Once
there, they meet the frustrated songwriter David Seville, and despite a poor house
wrecking first impression, they impress him with their singing talent. Seeing
the opportunity for success, both human and chipmunks make a pact for them to
sing his songs. While that ambition proves a frustrating struggle with the
difficult trio, the dream does come true after all. However, that success
presents its own trials as their unscrupulous record executive, Ian Hawke,
plans to break up this family to exploit the boys.
Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for a novelty
record in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic
chipmunks:
Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group;
Simon, the tall, bespectacled
intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, impressionable one. The trio is managed
by their human adoptive father, David Seville. In reality, "David
Seville" was Bagdasarian's stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are
named after the executives of their original record label. The characters
became a success, and the singing Chipmunks and their manager were given life
in several animated cartoon productions, using redrawn,
anthropomorphic chipmunks, and eventually
