C'mon, ease up Laz...........the Chipmunks have always been 'hip'. Even in the 50's when Ross Bagdasarian came up with the unique idea of how to create the sound, The Chipmunks have always been hip and ahead of their time.
Who can forget where it all started with the song "The Witch Doctor" - 'oo-ee-oo-aah-aah, ting tang walla walla bing bang' - that song was the biggest selling novelty record of its time, and still stands in the Top Twenty today. From that little two-minute ditty came Baggy's idea for a trio of animals, not picking Chipmunks at first, that would sing in harmony.
Three years after 'Witch Doctor' came the very first Chipmunk song and it stands today as the most memorable of all their songs - "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" and Alvin, Simon and Theodore were officially born.
Billed as David Seville and The Chipmunks, Bagdasarian released several albums of songs done the 'Chipmunk Way', and that is what this movie is all about. It has nothing to do with being hip, or cute or anything like that. This movie is going to be a telling of the story about getting a record company to buy into a novelty act that nobody can see, just that in the movie they will have three CGI chipmunks portraying Alvin, Simon and Theodore.
I have seen three different trailers for this movie, and I am looking forward to seeing this film when it opens in theaters.
