Chip and Dale

A Shrek for a new era, as Disney lets Lonely Island go nuts (in PG fashion).

Dale, as part of a running gag in the film, has gotten "CGI surgery" and emerges as a fully 3D-rendered chipmunk. We get to see each lead character move on from early '90s fame to their "adult" lives for the next 25 years or so before they're forced to reunite. So much so, in fact, that I watched the entirety of the credits to see exactly who got thanked for allowing their biggest franchises to be either passive-aggressively mocked or outright, er, melted in this film.

Sonic, South Park, He-Man and Seth Rogen are among the surprising cameos in the Disney+ animated movie Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.

The best part of the cameo is that Charles Fleischer reprises the character he voiced in the Robert Zemeckis classic starring the legendary Bob Hoskins. (Additional fun fan note: Eddie Murphy once said that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the only film on which he ever regretted passing.) Toward the end of the film, in the same convention scene with He-Man and Skeletor, Pete bumps into one of the classic Disney Peter Pan Lost Boys. After he notes, shocked, that Peter grew up, Peter responds: “Yeah, death is coming for us all, kid.” One of the funniest moments in the film is between He-Man and Skeletor, who appear together at a fan convention. Rendered in their classic He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ’80s animation, the duo is at a table signing pictures when Chip and Dale run underneath to avoid trouble. The fan-favorite South Park character is seen briefly hanging out in a bathhouse sauna while Chip and Dale are on a mission. The poor guy is trying to get by in the industry as best he can — but it’s pretty clear opportunities have dried up and cons are his main source of income.

It wouldn't be a Disney movie without some Marvel references throw in but Rescue Rangers went for some deep cuts.

Sadly in the Rescue Rangers verse the title was changed to Ant-Man, though in the closing credits we do see a poster for the fictional film: Paul Rudd in his Ant-Man costume, minus the helmet, poses with several aunts. In the Rescue Rangers movie, it seems Tigra never got much acting success outside of the short lived series, the banner at her booth features nothing but photos from the short-lived series and the inviting statement, “Meet the Were-Woman In Person!” No, Rescue Rangers goes for the deepest of deep cuts.

The satirical movie comes from The Lonely Island comedy team. "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers" is exclusive to Disney Plus and won't be in theaters.

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Take away the cameos—in the recording booth, and animated on-screen—and you get something that's a little too close to the same old junk.

The Henson company tried something similar to this a few years ago with vats of bodily fluids in the godawful “ The Happytime Murders.” This movie isn’t that bad, which is a plus. At the least the premise is funny: former enchanted sweetheart Sweet Pete ( Will Arnett) has been kidnapping characters and changing their physical features, “bootlegging” them for knock-offs. It doesn’t help that the jokes not related to current properties just aren't funny or memorable. This movie is directed by Akiva Schaffer, and stars Andy Samberg voicing as Dale, so technically that makes it a Lonely Island movie (their third member, Jorma Taccone, does bit voice parts). That inherently raises the pedigree for it, especially with how they have previously parodied pop music and success in the past. One such inspired idea is how this movie casually includes different eras and recognizable styles on animation, recognizing that we've all become historians in the industry, whether we realize it or not. Chip and Dale are smart candidates for a reboot—they’re a recognizable cartoon Disney duo, even if one doesn’t know their series, or have a nostalgia for them in the slightest.

Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers has rebooted as a Disney+ film, and you will absolutely not expect what DCEU hero shows up.

The new Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie is set in a continuity where the beloved 1980s show was the creation of two actual chipmunks named Chip and Dale. However, as often happens with show business friendships, the two drifted apart after the cancellation of their shows into their own respective forms of quiet desperation. Let’s try to work out how this could have happened. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers has a strong nostalgic pull for viewers of a certain age when after-school TV meant a healthy dose of cartoons about rodent adventurers overtly patterned on Indiana Jones and Magnum P.I., a wealthy duck forcing his nephews into labor, an island of anthropomorphic animals that seemed to have based their lives on Casablanca, and of course, Darkwing Duck. The reboot of Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers as a Disney+ animated feature film was probably an inevitability as Disney combs through its accumulated decades of intellectual property, but few could expect the movie to include Batman. And not just any Batman of the many iterations of Batman, but Batman as portrayed by Ben Affleck in the Zack Snyder-directed DCEU films.

'Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers' debuted on Disney+ yesterday (May 20), and with it, an original theme song courtesy of Post Malone.

Directed by Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island, Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers stars John Mulaney and Andy Samberg (who is also Schaffer’s bandmate in TLI) as the titular chipmunk duo. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. “I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, and for since I could remember I was sad.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a brand new film out today on Disney+. For some reason, it features Ugly Sonic. Ugly So…

Become a supporter of Eurogamer and you can view the site completely ad-free, as well as gaining exclusive access to articles, podcasts and conversations that will bring you closer to the team, the stories, and the games we all love. Ugly Sonic has a booth at a comic convention selling signed photos. Ugly Sonic, as you'll no doubt be aware, was the original design for Sonic in the 2020 film before fans complained.

Who plays Dale in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers? Let's highlight who voices the iconic animated character in the 2022 movie on Disney+.

“I did what you asked,” Andy replied. Having quite the laugh, the kids asked him who would win in a fight… - Andy Samberg as Dale

The Disney+ film is like an updated Who Framed Roger Rabbit—a fantastically funny cartoon satire.

In Chip ’n Dale, Dale is trying to ride that trend to a comeback. (Samberg and Mulaney’s easy chemistry also helps.) The movie works mostly because, through its weird tricks of animation and self-referentiality, it somehow finds a fresh satirical angle. The return of Ugly Sonic is one of the biggest reasons to recommend Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, because it exemplifies the kind of humor on display in the rest of Akiva Schaffer’s film. That space is where characters such as Ugly Sonic are languishing, alongside Sweet Pete (Will Arnett), a middle-aged, beer-bellied version of Disney’s Peter Pan; and (most amusingly) a glassy-eyed CGI Viking warrior played by Seth Rogen, who resembles the eerie mannequins of 2000s films such as The Polar Express and Beowulf. In Chip ’n Dale, all of these forgotten figures continue to toil in obscurity, fighting for even a scrap of relevance amid so many flashy, new brands. I’m talking about the return of “Ugly Sonic”—an unsettling version of Sonic the Hedgehog with human teeth, beady eyes, and a weirdly elongated body that you might remember from 2020 before a hasty redesign salvaged his live-action movie debut. Hollywood loves a good comeback story, and the new Disney+ film Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers has a great one.

The joke is that Chip and Dale run into Ugly Sonic at a convention, the version of Sonic that was the original CGI hedgehog in the first trailer for the ...

I suppose it could be a bit of a risk if they decide to go MA-rated and foul mouthed with it, which seems like Ugly Sonic would lend itself to, but who knows. The best part is that Ugly Sonic is voiced by none other than I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson’s Tim Robinson, the bizarre, excellent comedy series on Netflix that is coming back for a third season. The internet collectively melted down at how bad he looked to the point where the filmmakers actually apologized and resolved to make a more game-like Sonic for the final product, no doubt a colossal amount of work.

Lonely Island director Akiva Schaffer, also of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping fame, filled the film with animated references, Who Framed Roger ...

In addition to creating Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Stones also wrote and produced Darkwing Duck and produced other Disney shows, like Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and the Hercules and Aladdin animated TV spinoffs. It also pays homage to one of the original creators of the Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers television show, Tad Stones. “He co-created with another guy named Alan Zaslove back in the ’90s,” explains director and Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer. “Alan was much older, like the mentor, and he has since passed away at an old age.

Are Chip and Dale brothers? Many fans assumed so, but the film 'Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers' establishes a different origin story for the chipmunks.

“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.” “Why are they meeting for the first time in third grade?” If you’re wondering if Chip and Dale are brothers, congratulations. “Are Chip and Dale brothers?” one fan wrote on Reddit in 2016. Fans have been wondering about Chip and Dale’s relationship for years now. And the new film Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, which started streaming on Disney+ on Friday, May 20, does little to clear up the chipmunk confusion.