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In the present, Chip and Dale are contacted by their old friend Monterey Jack, who has fallen in debt to a figurehead named Sweet Pete due to his stinky cheese addiction. Monty tells the pair of a criminal operation where they kidnap toons, alter their appearance, and ship them overseas to produce [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] works. Chip wants no part of the investigation, still holding a grudge with Dale. Later, Monty is found missing and both arrive to help the police, led by Captain Putty and Detective Ellie Steckler. Ellie reveals herself to be a big fan of Chip and Dale, and tells the pair that while their hands are tied as police, the two can try to find out where Sweet Pete is operating from.
In the present, Chip and Dale are contacted by their old friend Monterey Jack, who has fallen in debt to a figurehead named Sweet Pete due to his stinky cheese addiction. Monty tells the pair of a criminal operation where they kidnap toons, alter their appearance, and ship them overseas to produce [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] works. Chip wants no part of the investigation, still holding a grudge with Dale. Later, Monty is found missing and both arrive to help the police, led by Captain Putty and Detective Ellie Steckler. Ellie reveals herself to be a big fan of Chip and Dale, and tells the pair that while their hands are tied as police, the two can try to find out where Sweet Pete is operating from.


Chip and Dale go to visit a puppet named Bjornson the Cheesemonger, where Monty had been buying his cheese, and ask to see Sweet Pete. They are taken to the [[uncanny valley]] part of town to Sweet Pete's factory that produces porta-potties from unsold toy stock. They meet Sweet Pete - who in reality is an adult [[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]] - and his henchmen Bob the [[Viking]] and Jimmy the [[Polar Bear]]. Sweet Pete realizes the two are trying to confiscate info on his bootlegging business and tries to capture the pair, but the chipmunks escape. The two later discuss what they’ve discovered with Ellie, learning that she is not in good standing with Captain Putty due to acting on a bad tip and raiding [[Nickelodeon Studios]] with disastrous results.
Chip and Dale go to visit a puppet named Bjornson the Cheesemonger, where Monty had been buying his cheese, and ask to see Sweet Pete. They are taken to the [[uncanny valley]] part of town to Sweet Pete's factory that produces porta-potties from unsold toy stock. They meet Sweet Pete - who in reality is an adult [[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]] - and his henchmen Bob the [[Viking]] and Jimmy the Polar Bear. Sweet Pete realizes the two are trying to confiscate info on his bootlegging business and tries to capture the pair, but the chipmunks escape. The two later discuss what they’ve discovered with Ellie, learning that she is not in good standing with Captain Putty due to acting on a bad tip and raiding [[Nickelodeon Studios]] with disastrous results.


Dale recalls that Sweet Pete is wearing a [[fitness tracker]], and so with Ellie's help, the pair sneak into a [[bathhouse]] to steal Pete's tracker. They trace his movements to a dock warehouse, and find evidence of prior toon kidnappings, allowing the police to fully investigate. The investigation leads to the discovery of a large operating machine designed to take parts of toons and replace them with others, and while the chipmunks end up stuck in it, they manage to avoid the laser cutters. At the far end, the two discover a trove of toon parts, include Monty's moustache.
Dale recalls that Sweet Pete is wearing a [[fitness tracker]], and so with Ellie's help, the pair sneak into a [[bathhouse]] to steal Pete's tracker. They trace his movements to a dock warehouse, and find evidence of prior toon kidnappings, allowing the police to fully investigate. The investigation leads to the discovery of a large operating machine designed to take parts of toons and replace them with others, and while the chipmunks end up stuck in it, they manage to avoid the laser cutters. At the far end, the two discover a trove of toon parts, include Monty's moustache.

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"Chip 'n Dale (film)" redirects here. For the 1947 short film, see Chip an' Dale.
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Promotional release poster
Directed byAkiva Schaffer
Written by
  • Dan Gregor
  • Doug Mand
Based onRescue Rangers
properties and characters
by Disney Television Animation[1]
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyLarry Fong
Edited byBrian Scott Olds
Music byBrian Tyler[2]
Production
companies
Distributed byDisney+
Release dates
  • May 16, 2022 (2022-05-16) (Orlando)
  • May 20, 2022 (2022-05-20) (United States)
Running time
97 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a 2022 American live-action/computer-animated action-adventure comedy film based on the characters Chip and Dale and the subsequent animated TV series of the same name.[4][5][6] Directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, the film stars John Mulaney and Andy Samberg as the voices of the titular pair, respectively, with Will Arnett, Eric Bana, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, J.K. Simmons, and KiKi Layne. It is a co-production between Walt Disney Pictures, producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman's Mandeville Films, and The Lonely Island (which Schaffer and Samberg are a part of).

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers premiered in Orlando on May 16, 2022,[7] and was released in the United States on May 20, 2022, via streaming on Disney+ as a Disney+ original film. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

Plot

In a world co-populated by both humans and cartoon characters, Chip and Dale meet in high school and, despite being outcasts, soon become fast friends. Their friendship led to the creation of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, which becomes a huge success during the late 1980s. However, during filming, Dale reveals to Chip that he had won a solo role in his own spy show entitled Double-O-Dale, which Chip views as an insult to their friendship.

In the thirty years since the show's cancellation, Chip and Dale drift apart and the Rescue Rangers eventually broke up. Chip becomes a successful insurance salesman while Dale continues his acting career, having special CGI surgery to improve his looks, but now spends his time on the fan convention circuit.

In the present, Chip and Dale are contacted by their old friend Monterey Jack, who has fallen in debt to a figurehead named Sweet Pete due to his stinky cheese addiction. Monty tells the pair of a criminal operation where they kidnap toons, alter their appearance, and ship them overseas to produce bootleg works. Chip wants no part of the investigation, still holding a grudge with Dale. Later, Monty is found missing and both arrive to help the police, led by Captain Putty and Detective Ellie Steckler. Ellie reveals herself to be a big fan of Chip and Dale, and tells the pair that while their hands are tied as police, the two can try to find out where Sweet Pete is operating from.

Chip and Dale go to visit a puppet named Bjornson the Cheesemonger, where Monty had been buying his cheese, and ask to see Sweet Pete. They are taken to the uncanny valley part of town to Sweet Pete's factory that produces porta-potties from unsold toy stock. They meet Sweet Pete - who in reality is an adult Peter Pan - and his henchmen Bob the Viking and Jimmy the Polar Bear. Sweet Pete realizes the two are trying to confiscate info on his bootlegging business and tries to capture the pair, but the chipmunks escape. The two later discuss what they’ve discovered with Ellie, learning that she is not in good standing with Captain Putty due to acting on a bad tip and raiding Nickelodeon Studios with disastrous results.

Dale recalls that Sweet Pete is wearing a fitness tracker, and so with Ellie's help, the pair sneak into a bathhouse to steal Pete's tracker. They trace his movements to a dock warehouse, and find evidence of prior toon kidnappings, allowing the police to fully investigate. The investigation leads to the discovery of a large operating machine designed to take parts of toons and replace them with others, and while the chipmunks end up stuck in it, they manage to avoid the laser cutters. At the far end, the two discover a trove of toon parts, include Monty's moustache.

The next day, the pair argue over their recent spats, and Chip angrily gives Dale a golden pog that he kept to remind him of their better past. The two smell the scent of Monty's cologne, tracing it to either Captain Putty or Ellie, before fleeing the station, fearing one of them is working with Sweet Pete. They go to the ongoing Fan Con and try to convince Ugly Sonic to get his contacts with the FBI to help. Just then, Sweet Pete, Bob and Jimmy arrive, having followed Dale by his social media posts. In the ongoing chase, Bob is caught with the help of Tigra and Lumière, but Chip is caught by Pete and Jimmy. Sweet Pete takes Chip back to the warehouse, and Ellie is lured by Captain Putty there as well, revealing Putty has been working with Pete as part of the bootleg ring, as well as having set up Ellie for the mistaken raid.

Pete has Ellie call Dale to convince him to come to the warehouse alone as to save Chip from being erased, but Ellie speaks in code from past Rescue Ranger episodes. Though Dale misinterprets the clues, he realizes that Ellie is in trouble, and reaches out to Gadget and Zipper, who have married and raised a large family, to help get him to the warehouse. With Gadget and Zipper flying the Ranger Plane, Dale makes his way inside the warehouse using a firework, which gets lodged into the operating machines' innards, stopping it before Chip is operated on. The firework then causes the machine to overload and explode. The machine goes haywire, turning Jimmy into a fairy and transforms Pete into a giant amalgamation of various toons and more powerful than before. While Ellie fights Putty, Pete chases down Chip and Dale through the warehouse, revealing that this is also where the bootlegs were being filmed. The chipmunks eventually lure Pete to the docks, and using a ploy from one of the show's episodes, are able to trap Pete.

The FBI, led by Ugly Sonic, arrive to help. Just as the FBI try to secure Pete, he fires a cannonball at Chip, but Dale leaps up to block it, falling unconscious. Chip fears for his friend's life, apologizing for his behavior over the years, but Dale wakes up, revealing that he kept the golden pog which took the brunt of the shot. The chipmunks find where all the bootlegged toons have been kept, including Monty who had been operated on to be in a bootleg version of Dumbo. The full Rescue Ranger team unites, and Dale introduces them to Ellie. Ellie admits she has decided to open her own detective agency, following in the footsteps of her heroes. As the team depart, Dale offers the idea of a reboot, but the others agree only if they see the script first.

The end credits show Pete and the Valley gang in prison and the Rescue Rangers shooting another episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, with their star status restored. Monterey Jack's original mouse ears are also shown to have been restored.

Cast

Additionally, Corey Burton briefly reprises both roles of Dale's chipmunk voice and Zipper's intelligible buzzes from the original series; Jeff Bennett reprises his role as Lumière; Liz Cackowski voices Tigra, who is modeled after her appearance in The Avengers: United They Stand; Rachel Bloom voices Flounder from the 1989 version of The Little Mermaid and Cubby of the Lost Boys from Peter Pan among other characters; Steven Curtis Chapman voices Baloo from the 2016 version of The Jungle Book, who is stated to have been the same Baloo from TaleSpin before having CGI surgery; Charles Fleischer reprises his role as Roger Rabbit; David Tennant reprises his role as Scrooge McDuck from the 2017 version of DuckTales; Alan Oppenheimer voices both He-Man and Skeletor (reprising his role as the latter) from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; Jim Cummings reprises his roles as Fat Cat from the original series, Darkwing Duck, Winnie the Pooh, and Pete; and Akiva Schaffer provides voices for numerous minor roles, while also playing the director of the original show.[14] Paula Abdul appears as a de-aged version of herself and also voices the 3-D reporter. Paul Rudd makes a cameo as himself. Original Rescue Rangers co-creator Tad Stones cameos as a studio executive.

Other animated characters within the Disney catalogue include the Three Little Pigs, the Magic Carpet from the 1992 version of Aladdin, Linda Flynn-Fletcher from Phineas and Ferb, the Colonel from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the Little House, Doc McStuffins, Wynnchel and Duncan from Wreck-It Ralph, and Norton Nimnul from the original series. Non-Disney characters include MC Skat Kat, two of the cats from the 2019 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, Robert Crumb's Mr. Natural, the DC Extended Universe version of Batman[15], Blaster as he appeared from The Transformers, the Mane Six of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Randy Marsh from South Park and Detective Florez from Big Mouth.

Production

Development and pre-production

On January 31, 2014, it was announced that The Walt Disney Company was developing a live-action movie based on the Disney Afternoon animated series Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers with CGI special effects, similar to 20th Century Fox's Alvin & the Chipmunks film series. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman signed on as its producers, while Robert Rugan was hired to write and direct the film. It would've followed an origin story for the Rescue Rangers.[16]

In May 2019, Akiva Schaffer had closed a deal to replace Rugan as the film's director, while Dan Gregor and Doug Mand became its new writers. Set to follow a "meta, something self-referential and cool" take on the characters. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman returned as its producers, and the project will be a co-production between Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films.[17] Schaffer agreed to direct the film after he was sent Gregor and Mand's script; he agreed due to the film's self-referential humor, his love for both the original series and the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and an interest in working on animated films.[14] The film features cameos from several non-Disney animated propierties due to Schaffer wanting the film to be "a love letter celebration of animation", similar to Roger Rabbit, and felt including only Disney characters would instead make the film "just a celebration of Disney animation".[18] Non-Disney companies authorized for their characters to appear in the film after Schaffer assured them it was "not going to make fun of their characters".[14]

Casting

In November 2020, it was reported that Corey Burton will reprise his role from the series as the voice of Zipper.[19] Though initial reports said that Burton would return as the voice of Dale as well, it was announced in December 2020, that Andy Samberg will provide the voice for the character. John Mulaney as Chip was revealed in the same announcement, and Seth Rogen was announced to be making a cameo in the film.[4] Additional casting was announced with the release of the teaser trailer on February 15, 2022.[9] In April 2022, during the release of a new trailer, it was confirmed that Burton would indeed reprise Dale along with Tress MacNeille reprising Chip for brief dialogue.[20]

Filming

Principal photography commenced on March 16, 2021 in Los Angeles with Larry Fong as cinematographer.[21][22][23]

Visual effect and animation

Both visual effects for the film and the Rescue Rangers' and Sweet Pete's animation were provided by Moving Picture Company.[24][25] For Roger Rabbit's cameo at the start of the film, one of the animators from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was brought to animate the character.[14] Animation services were also provided by Mercury Filmworks. The ponies from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic were done by Top Draw Animation, who animated them for the series and 2017 film.

Music

Brian Tyler is the film's composer and also its conductor, which was confirmed in July 2021.[2] On May 6, 2022, it was reported that Post Malone recorded a cover of the original show's theme song for the film.[26] The soundtrack album was released on May 20, 2022 alongside the film's release.

Soundtrack

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Soundtrack album by
Brian Tyler
ReleasedMay 20, 2022 (2022-05-20)
Length60:18
LabelWalt Disney Records
ProducerJoe Lisanti
Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler chronology
1883: Season 1, Vol. 2
(2022) 		Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
(2022)

All tracks are written by Brian Tyler, except where indicated

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Theme" (Post Malone)Mark Mueller2:24
2."Rescue Rangers Anthem" 2:28
3."Sweet Pete Suite" 2:18
4."New School, Same Dale" 1:34
5."Best Friends" 1:44
6."Just a Showbiz Thing" 2:15
7."Chip off the Ol' Block" 2:35
8."Monterey Jack" 2:41
9."Bootlegging" 2:30
10."The Case of the Missing Monty" 3:12
11."Main Street" 2:29
12."The Cheese Cellar" 2:52
13."Old Merchandise" 1:30
14."A Beary Narrow Escape" 3:18
15."Double O'Dale'd" 1:19
16."The Crime Lab" 2:00
17."The Russian Bathhouse" 3:02
18."San Pedro Docks" 2:49
19."Mission Chippossible" 2:22
20."Not Heroes" 2:38
21."Sniffing Out a Clue" 3:22
22."Chipnapped" 3:39
23."The Bare Necessities" (instrumental)Terry Gilkyson2:37
24."Dirty Putty" 4:08
25."Rangers Reunited" 1:51
26."Rescuing Chip" 1:58
27."Frankenpete" 3:14
28."The Smartest Chipmunks" 4:16
29."Rescue Rangers" 5:11
Total length:60:18

Release

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers premiered in Orlando on May 16, 2022 and was released as a Disney+ original film on May 20, 2022.[4][21][27]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of 72 critics' reviews are positive with an average rating of 6.80/10. The website's consensus reads, "Sometimes some reboots fall through the cracks, but Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers picks up the slack with a fast, funny film that (almost) never fails."[28] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[29]

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