Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Decades since their successful television series was canceled, Chip has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend’s life.

  • Released: 2022-05-20
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
  • Stars: John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, KiKi Layne, Will Arnett, Eric Bana, Flula Borg, Dennis Haysbert, Keegan-Michael Key, Tress MacNeille, Corey Burton, Tim Robinson, Seth Rogen, J.K. Simmons, Chris Parnell, Paula Abdul, Ben Schwartz, Isabel Hainer, Da'Vone McDonald, Akiva Schaffer, Rachel Bloom, Juliet Donenfeld, Liz Cackowski, Mason Blomberg, Jim Cummings, Jeff Bennett, June Schaffer, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jorma Taccone, Alan Oppenheimer, Hazel Schaffer, Charles Fleischer, Paul Rudd, David Tennant, Heather Dragulescu, Sean Rohani, Jake Matthew Cohen, Jonathan Verweij, Kai Zen, Sophie Fatu, Rachel Samiri, Matt Cook, Greg Chun, Tad Stones, Krystal Alvarez, Scott Whyte, Nneoma Sampson, Jean Gilpin, Jovana Lara, Victor Turpin, James Joseph Pulido, James M. Black, Kenzo Lee, J. Anthony McCarthy, Dan Gregor, Cole Massie, Jessie Hendricks, Philena Franklin, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Matt Nolan, Tom Antonellis, Doug Mand, Julian Graham, Boo Radley, Abdullah Saeed Fawaz Al-Kubaisi, Anthony Molinari
  • Director: Akiva Schaffer
 Comments
  • rosebailey2524 - 25 January 2024
    Deserved More Hype
    It makes me so mad that I had no idea this movie existed until today. They should have marketed this better and I'm sure it would have done much better. The new Disney movies just aren't for me.

    The fact that this movie isn't some fan edit and was actually made by Disney will forever amaze me. Disney is so protective over their characters that seeing Peter Pan as a man who turns toys into toilets but is also low key a mob boss is amazing. I really hope they make more movies like this because this has heart and humor.

    I will be recommending this movie to all my friends and I love this one.

    To use up characters : I love cheese.
  • Hollywood_Yoda - 17 February 2023
    Not Your Typical Movie of the Week
    I will start by saying that this film was intended for Disney fans and fans of the original show. That might be a small audience, but true fans were pleased with what we saw. Was it the same as the original cartoon? No. And that was a good break from all the tv shows made into movies. It was like an updated continuation of a favorite cartoon, full of pop culture references and I loved it.

    That being said, I am surprised Disney and the writers and filmmakers were able to get away with what they did. There was the "bad Sonic" and many other references to non-Disney films and shows; like Rick and Morty and even other non-Disney studios. The Peter Pan character, all grown up, had to be the strangest part. An out of work character making bootleg films and off branded remakes; but it was directly mocking the studio system, and it was great.

    That could be a reason it is unavailable on DVD, but who really knows. It was a good film, full of laughs and really, what more could true fans ask for. I thought it was hilarious.
  • Aylmer - 7 October 2022
    terrible voice casting & performances kept pulling me out of the movie
    Strange that this movie exists as it'll mainly gain the attention of 40-somethings such as myself who used to turn on the classic show right after getting home from school every afternoon back in the early 1990's. However, if you're going to make a throwback to a beloved childhood classic, why base it around a story that completely disrespects the source material? Oh, all those adventures the rescue rangers went on; turns out that even in-universe, it was all fake. It was all a TV show. Then they combine "live action" 3D characters with more traditionally 2D animated ones, but the 3D characters still don't look realistic in the least bit, residing uncomfortably in the uncanny valley. I couldn't help but wonder "what's the point" if they're going to both play it so safe ro make characters cute for the kids, but at the same time warp and confuse the existing Disney cartoon universe in a way akin to the more recent episodes of "Doctor Who". It narrows the appeal demographic to 6-28 (kids and adults too young to have cared about the property in the first place).

    Worst of all, the voice casting for Chip and Dale sounds nothing like their characterizations on the TV show, much less the original Disney shorts from the 1940's and 50's. It's almost as though the filmmakers went out of their way just to distract from the narrative or to show that, "you, the fans of the original property, don't really count. Do you have a problem with how we've modernized everything about your beloved childhood characters? Well, just deal with it". I did. I turned this abomination off after about 20 minutes. Maybe things pick up toward the end? Is it really worth getting tortured for that long?
  • Mysterygeneration - 23 August 2022
    Imagine that Disney owns every IP.
    Almost all of the recent remakes of Disney classics have been awkward and excruciating to watch. Even if they don't succeed in doing anything new with well-known stories, these remakes are clumsy and rough because their creators try to transmit every single beat of those stories.

    Chip and Dale are voiced by John Mulaney and Andy Samberg, respectively. The movie's interpretation of the characters is that they were actors in their earlier days. Chip is now a prosperous insurance salesman, while Dale hangs out with characters like Lumiere, Baloo, and Ugly Sonic.

    Despite the fact that Chip and Dale haven't spoken in years due to a private dispute, they reunite to solve a mystery involving a fellow cast member. The script for this movie, created by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, gradually enlarges its absurdist depiction of Los Angeles by making fun of Main Street, USA and covert animation studios.

    "Rescue Rangers" is eminently silly and offbeat. The human aspect of the story is less developed than it was in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" KiKi Layne's portrayal of a superfan officer is underdeveloped. Movie manages to walk fine line between being family-friendly and embodying Lonely Island aesthetic.
  • giannapatsy - 28 July 2022
    Love it, but.....
    I saw the movie a couple of months ago and I just gotta say it's good. I LOVE the comedy and action!! Just this one thing:

    There is a part in the movie where Sweet Pete (aka Peter Pan) tells Chip and Dale how Disney fired him after he got too old. His story parallels that of Bobby Driscoll, Peter Pan's original voice actor who went through the same thing. He got involved in alcohol, drugs, and crime and later died in an abandoned tenement at the age of 31. He was buried in Potter's Field because no one could identify his body and his body is STILL THERE. It wasn't until over a year later when his mother went looking for him that the family learned he had died, and I read somewhere that they tried to bring it back but New York officials wouldn't let them bring him back to California. I'm saying this as a Bobby Driscoll fan!! Pete's backstory is super distasteful in this sense.

    Other than that, I love this movie! The acting and writing is great. They just could have honestly written Peter Pan's backstory with ORIGINALITY.

    Anyways, the movie parodies some famous children's characters such as Bjornson being a parody of the Swiss Chef from The Muppet Show. I particularly thought that Seth Rogen did a good job on Bob, who is a parody of early 2000's CGI. The CGI in this movie was GREAT, too! Andy Samburg is also a funny guy!

    There is a lot about the movie that I liked, but I won't get into any more spoilers.