I thought the plot holes would never end. So many things unexplained. I know its a kids movie but still.
How did they know where the managers house was when they went to convience him that they could sing?
How did they now English?
If Chipmunks can talk...and escape from a cat carrier, they surely know how to use a phone book. It's not that hard.
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And they would know what a phone book is used how?
shareWhy admit that you know this is a kids movie (most likely aimed toward children younger than 12) and then dwell on things like this?
When the hurly-burly's done. When the battle's lost and won.
Becuase its bad quality. That being feed to little kids and its called acceptable because its for little childeren its just a movie which the producers said "That makes some money. How bout we slap this on and a bit of that and put the only kind of funny jokes on the trailer to trick people."
When is animation going to be taken seriously again!
So…we should accept the fact that there are talking chipmunks that could sing, but not accept the fact that they didn’t go into what would most likely be exquisitely boring detail over why they are able to speak English and use a phone book?
I can’t help but think you’re being facetious.
When the hurly-burly's done. When the battle's lost and won.
No but it didnt make sense how they came into the house and didnt know what half of the stuff was and then wabang would know what a "Phone book" was. I dont really care much bout the plot holes but theres so many it ridiculous. It annoys me that the writers dont even care about making a genuin work of animation they just care about money.
shareAsking why the Chipmunks can talk & sing & speak English & know how to use a phone book is like asking why the Smurfs are blue, who effin' cares??? I for one would've been bored if the majority of the movie told the back story about how the Chipmunks learned to talk & stuff. Besides, it's not as if the Chipmunks is the only cartoon that revolves around talking animals. Are you just as annoyed with those, too?
"Oh motherballs" - Paget Brewster
Ahh...ever heard of sarcasm? Look it up.
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I think you're missing the bigger plot holes of the film, like the fact that the chipmunks talk and sing when chipmunks can't in fact talk or sing, and like how they love christmas when in reality chipmunks don't have a clue what christmas is. And don't even get me started on how they can read.
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The reality is the Chipmunks really don't have a reason to like Christmas because they don't have a soul.
sharegod, you're stupid ardit
shareHow would they able to read? If you wanted to really make it seem reasonable that they could speak english it would have made better sense if they were raised by a human who spoke english to them, or have them living around a tv so they would learn by that.
shareThank you thats what i meant but people kept twisting my words.
sharei think the biggest question is, how did the cab driver react to 3 talking chipmunks?
"ribbed for her pleasure" eeewwwww-waynes world
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"i think the biggest question is, how did the cab driver react to 3 talking chipmunks?"
lol. that's true
River Phoenix has my heart. Oh, and James McAvoy is so cute!
Thank you for expressing my feelings!
Hello, how come the Chipmunks knew what waffles and everything else was but for some reason asked what a blender was? How come when they opened Dave's cupboard and saw packaged goods they knew they hit the "jackpot" when all they saw was boxes, how did they know food was in there? Why is Dave not uspposed to to come off as a shmuck when he throws them out of his house but then only lets them back in when they could help him make money? How did the Chipmunks after a whole day of understandably turning their first human house into a pigsty, suddenly get the know-how to make it nice and neat in a half hour for Dave's dinnner-date? How much of a coincidence was it that the doll glasses that Dave had actually fit Simon and was a perfect perscription? How could Simon see properly before that? How were th chipmunks able to write words on Dave's presentation? WHy did Dave say he needs to write music because he hates his job and needs the money, didn't his job give him money as an ad executive? Why was Ian so nice to Dave at first? Why does Ian sleep alone? Where are his girl-interest...o right Tobias is gay.
Anyways, most of these plot holes could have been explained with a story of Dave finding these abandoned chipmunks, raising them like children and then, okay fine, we would then just have abnormaly smart rodents. But the fact that they knew things that would be impossible for them to know over and over again during the course of this major dissapointment is what has me writing this frustration-venting piece at 1 in the morning!!
And then to cap it off, this movie was a hit at the box office!!! This says something about kids of the 21st century. I'm not sure what yet, but it says something...
Its ridiculous.
shareHello! Do you not remember what it was like to be a kid? I've already said it, but I'll reiterate: kids don't need to know this stuff! Do you know why? Because they are smart enough and have good enough imaginations to not have to have everything force-fed to them like adults do!
Don't you know what the phrase "suspension of disbelief" means? Let's take other cases, shall we? Have you ever watched Disney movies? Let's start with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. How does the mirror in Snow White talk? Why would a girl originally raised as a princess choose to become a housekeeper to seven men? How can someone who is dead come back to life? Why didn't she start to decay and smell bad between the time when Snow White ate the apple and was kissed back to life? How do the animals seem to understand what Snow White says, and manage to help her clean house and get the dwarves back to try to save Snow White?
Now, Cinderella...wow, there are talking animals in this movie too! Or at least talking mice. Why is it the mice talk but no other animals do? Why do the mice know English? How do they know how to sew? How can the Fairy Godmother use magic when magic clearly doesn't exist? How can two people dance together several times and not know one another's names? Why didn't Cinderella just run away from home rather than take the abuse from her step-mother and step-sisters?
Other instances of talking animals who speak English: The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Rescuers and the Rescuers Down Under, Aladdin, The Lion King, Oliver and Company, The Fox and the Hound, and The Little Mermaid. Another improbable comes from Peter Pan: how could an alarm clock last that long and work that long within the stomach of crocodile? Wouldn't it eventually be digested? Also, if only children can go to Never-Never-Land, why are there so many adults running around the island in the form of the pirates and Indians?
What about Looney Toons? How is it that Wile E. Coyote has been blown up, fallen off cliffs, flattened, and squished so many times, yet is still alive? Why do all of them know how to speak English? Where did they learn? How is it that Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner can practically run faster than the speed of light? How is Daffy Duck still alive after being shot as many times as he has by Elmer Fudd?
Do you see why your questions are ridiculous?
"When you lie down with dogs, you come up with fleas."
Alllll of those situations you brought up are completely different!
The mirror in Snow White talks because it's magic, duh!
Why would a girl originally raised as a princess choose to become a housekeeper to seven men? Because she was kicked out of her palace and has a heart of gold, duh!
How can someone who is dead come back to life? By a magic true love kiss, duh!
Why didn't she start to decay and smell bad between the time when Snow White ate the apple and was kissed back to life? It takes a long time to decay, and she obviously wasn't dead but in a big vegetative state, duh!
How do the animals seem to understand what Snow White says, and manage to help her clean house and get the dwarves back to try to save Snow White? Maybe they were taught! The chipmunks, however, were clueless about some stuff but geniuses about others, which is inconsistent!
Why is it the mice in Cinderella talk but no other animals do? Mice have brains like humans, that's why labs use them. These were obviously mutant mice.
Why do the mice know English? Everyone else did, what language should they speak in?
How do they know how to sew? They watched Cinderella do it for years.
How can the Fairy Godmother use magic when magic clearly doesn't exist? The whole point is it does exist.
How can two people dance together several times and not know one another's names? Hehe, you clearly don't go clubbing.
Why didn't Cinderella just run away from home rather than take the abuse from her step-mother and step-sisters? Stockholm syndrome.
How could an alarm clock last that long and work that long within the stomach of crocodile? Wouldn't it eventually be digested? Clocks don't digest so easily.
Also, if only children can go to Never-Never-Land, why are there so many adults running around the island in the form of the pirates and Indians? They left Never Never land, that's why they came back, to take over.
How is it that Wile E. Coyote has been blown up, fallen off cliffs, flattened, and squished so many times, yet is still alive? Good healing power.
Do you see why your questions are ridiculous? No, these movies are not being inconsistent, the Chipmunks were
Okay, you already admit you know it's a kids movie. Well, one thing you need to understand about kids is that they don't necessarily need to have all of that explained to them, like adults do. They either accept that that is the way it is, or they fill everything they don't understand within their own minds. Most kids know how to use their imaginations to a greater extent than adults do. A friend of mine once watched an old cartoon of hers and realized that she had filled a lot of things in in her mind that the writers didn't explain. I can remember occassions when I did the same thing as a kid.
They know English because they just do. And because they know English, they can use a phone book to look up where the manager lived. We don't need to know this. A kid would know that. Why don't you?
"When you lie down with dogs, you come up with fleas."
People dont be stupid. It´s a kids film. Kids younger than 5 see this. The "plot holes" wont do harm and are not interesting. Go look plot holes in a movie that claims to be serious, dont waste your time here crying.
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my god people its a frikkin kids movie!
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