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22/05/1987 Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Music 1h 17m
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At last! Alvin's first motion picture.

Overview

The Chipmunks and the Chipettes go head to head in a hot air balloon race, and the winner gets $100,000. Unbeknownst to the participants, the "race" is actually a diamond smuggling ring!

  1. Janice Karman

    Director, Writer

  2. Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

    David Seville / Alvin Seville / Simon Seville (voice)

  2. Janice Karman

    Theodore / Brittany / Jeanette / Eleanor (voice)

  3. Dody Goodman

    Miss Rebecca Miller (voice)

  4. Susan Tyrrell

    Claudia Furschtien (voice)

  5. Anthony De Longis

    Klaus Furschtien (voice)

  6. Frank Welker

    Sophie / Native Chief / Baby Penguin / Additional Voices (voice)

  7. Nancy Cartwright

    Arabian Prince (voice)

  8. Philip L. Clarke

    Additional Voices (voice)

  9. Ken Sansom

    Inspector Jamal (voice)

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Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by RealZero
Written by RealZero on 2026-02-13
I was positively surprised by this one.

I'm not a fan of the high-pitched Chipmunks and Chipettes music, but I grew up with the cartoon show and, yes, I like the live action movies because all six + Dave always have quite likable personalities.

And that's the same in this movie. If you like the 1983 show, this is a perfectly fitting movie to it with the characters actually engaging in a quite serious adventure including criminals, smuggling and kidnapping.

The plot isn't crazy special, and certainly off to an unrealistic start, but hey, if you wanna see the girls and boys having an ad...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$6,804,312.00

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