Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

It's not a reboot. It's a comeback.

2022 • 99 min • Animation · Family · Comedy · Adventure · Mystery

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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.

Our family guide

Best from age 7

Movie Knight Score

1408 reviews

60 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
70 Audience · 1403 · 35%

Chip and Dale, former cartoon stars, reunite after decades when a friend goes missing. They must mend their broken friendship and rekindle their detective skills to solve the mystery, navigating a world where cartoons and humans coexist. It's a fun blend of animation styles and pop culture references.

Violence & peril: 3/10
Language: 2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 1/10
Romance & sensuality: 1/10
Scary moments: 2/10

Heads up

Mild cartoon violence
Some rude humor
Characters discuss plastic surgery
Subtle adult humor

What it models well

Friendship and teamwork
Accepting change
Embracing individuality
Perseverance

Talk about it after

Nostalgia and aging
The value of old friendships
Different animation styles
Bootleg products

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Top billed cast

Director: Akiva Schaffer • Crew: Dan Gregor, Doug Mand

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Reviewer notes

Recommended
**Unexpected but also unnecessary.** A lot is going on with this movie! It's crazy, fast-paced, and just weird. As a movie for kids, it missed the target. As a movie for adults, some parts made me laugh. I definitely can't say it was terrible, but… it was just strange. Felt like a cartoon L.A. Confidential a little bit, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.…
The Movie Mob, TMDB Community

Recommended
The script feels like it needed a bit longer in the oven, riddled with half-developed ideas. Neat premises, sloppy execution. Never quite nails down its dramatic tension as well as I wished. Nevertheless, very ambitious with its scale in variation in animation, and most of it works well! J.K. Simmons Gumby alone made this worth watching for me.
tmdb62583583, TMDB Community

Recommended
When Chip 'N Dale was first conceptualized, the writers needed to make a decision: would this movie be primarily made for those who had watched Rescue Rangers as children, or would it attempt to reboot the duo for a new generation? Sadly, it would seem the writers chose to do both.…
bcorrel2, TMDB Community

Not recommendedTrusted family reviewers
A rare squalor turned out, of course. The characters are like pictures of a bad artist, flat and empty. Facial expressions and forms are alien. There is no aesthetic admiration for this attempt at expression in 3d. No grace and beauty. There is no depth and love, an adequate plot. Inappropriate flat humor. A fierce mockery of the innermost.…
Jordan_Gadger, TMDB Community

Not recommendedTrusted family reviewers
_Rescue Rangers_ throws all of these ideas and characters at a wall to see what sticks and before they can process what works and what doesn’t they’re already throwing another pile at the wall; it’s too much to digest and too much of a good thing all at once. _Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers_ is a film that distracts itself from telling its own story.…
Chris Sawin, TMDB Community