Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Andy SambergDale (voice)
- John MulaneyChip (voice)
- KiKi LayneEllie Steckler
- Will ArnettSweet Pete (voice)
- Eric BanaMonterey Jack (voice)
- Flula BorgDJ Herzogenaurach (voice)
- Dennis HaysbertZipper (voice)
- Keegan-Michael KeyFrog Co-Worker / Bjornson the Cheesemonger (voice)
- Tress MacNeilleHigh-Pitched Chip / Gadget Hackwrench (voice)
- Tim RobinsonUgly Sonic (voice)
Recommendations
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Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers is an ingenious parody of our IP-obsessed culture that also manages to show how joyous and brilliant this combination and celebration of old properties can be when done extremely well. - 80
Slashfilm
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers is a proudly very daffy and strange movie. - 80
Empire
Reminiscent of The Happytime Murders but actually watchable, this zippy, highly amiable rodent noir turns out to be a delightful surprise. It flings a lot of ideas at the screen — and most of them stick. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This hilariously meta reboot — excuse me, comeback — is everything the recent Space Jam sequel desperately attempted but failed to be. Premiering exclusively on Disney+, it’s the funniest movie of the year so far, either animated or live-action. - 75
IndieWire
It makes for a creative, clever watch, though one that seems exclusively imagined to cater to the series’ older fans and otherwise mature audiences. - 71
Polygon
More importantly, the jokes are sharp, and a lot of them lean on adult sensibilities — though in the way the union bit in Shrek 2 does, instead of being crude or cruel. - 70
Variety
This frenetic and funny crossbreeding of live action and cartoon is both a reboot and an anti-reboot, a corporate-funded raspberry at corporate IP, and a giddily dumb smart aleck committed to mocking its joke — and making it, too. - 67
Consequence
Right from the start, Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers knows what it wants to be. It’s clever! It’s playful! It’s meta! Turning the story into a tale of Hollywood has-beens is surely intriguing, and the appeal of the chipmunks investigating a neo-noir mystery largely worked in its favor. However, all the hard-boiled, real world capers may leave fans of the original longing for an altogether different type of revival, more in line with Disney+’s successful, if tragically canceled, reinvestment in DuckTales.
