Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is the third live action Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, released in 2011.
Dave, the Chipmunks and Chipettes go on a cruise ship to the International Music Awards. The munks cause trouble, leading to Dave having dinner with the captain to apologise. He then finds out that the ship's safety monitor, who dresses in a pelican suit, is none other than Ian, who obviously has a bone to pick with them. Unfortunately, Alvin, Simon, and the Chipettes escape for a night out and get caught, leading to a serious talking-to from Dave about responsibility.
The next day, the Chipmunks and Chipettes attempt to go para-sailing on a kite, but get swept away by the wind. Dave goes on a hang-glider to find them, but Ian tries to intervene, leading them to both fall overboard. Coincidentally, all parties end up on the same deserted island, but Dave and Ian arrive later. When the Chipmunks and Chipettes go into the jungle to find food, they encounter another island castaway, Zoe (Jenny Slate), who invites them to her tree house.
As the munks try to make the best of the situation and their roles in their respective trios suddenly shift, they try to maintain their hopes that Dave will find them and bring them home.
This film contains examples of:
- Actor Allusion: (Well, Composer Allusion) This film is scored by Mark Mothersbaugh, who had previously done the score for Rugrats Go Wild!, another movie about iconic characters being stranded on an island.
- Apologetic Attacker: Jeanette when she pulls a rope to trip Theodore so she can snatch the piece of fruit Alvin found.
- Big "NO!": Alvin yells a long "No!" as a Skyward Scream after he scolds an amnesiac Simon.
- Buffy Speak: In Chipwrecked, Ian at one point disrespectfully calls Theodore and Eleanor "Chubby One" and "Girl Chubby One" respectively.
- Cassandra Truth: Simon really does go looking for Alvin, as he tells Dave when he catches them outside their room. Simon absentmindedly hopped on a lever that won him the jackpot, and it's a Contrived Coincidence that the usher presented him with a platter full of winnings in front of Dave just as Simon explains himself.
- Cave Behind The Waterfall: The island has hidden treasure in a cave behind a waterfall.
- Companion Cube: Zoe has an entire collection of sports balls parodying Cast Away.
- Covers Always Lie:
- A poster portrays Alvin, Simon and Theodore surfing. Never once do they surf in the film.
- Or the fact neither Chipmunk nor Chipette wore clothes as indicated in several posters during the movie.
- Damsel in Distress: Jeanette gets kidnapped by Zoe to obtain the island's treasure... moments before the volcano is about to blow.
- Desperate Object Catch: Dave tosses Alvin a pocketknife, allowing him to free Jeanette from the rope Zoe tied to her.
- Disney Death: Simone gets knocked in the head with a golf ball, but thankfully regains consciousness and reverts back to Simon.
- Funny Background Event: As Alvin tries to convince Dave that he is a grownup/mature, Simon can be seen reading a book while Theodore eats the sweets from a basket in the background.
- Heel–Face Turn:
- Ian is still kind of a jerk, but he does help Dave and the Chipmunks get off the island.
- Zoe kidnaps Jeanette and tries to force her to dig up the lost treasure on the island, but then has a change of heart after a speech from Ian.
- Improbable Self-Maintenance: Zoe has been shipwrecked on an island for nine years. But her skin is only slightly dirty, her hair is still permed, her clothes are spotless, and she lives in an elaborate tree house she apparently built herself despite her deteriorating mental health from her social isolation.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Ian and Dave are marooned on the island and trying to find food and water, Ian points out that Dave's necklace is edible, but Dave refuses to eat it or let Ian eat it, as it was a gift from Theodore. While Ian does lose points by arguing with Dave over the latter calling Theodore his son, in such desperate times, sentimental value really should take a back seat to survival, so Dave isn't completely in the right.
- "Not So Different" Remark: When Simon loses his personality, Alvin has to become the authority figure in Chipwrecked. When he tries to stop Simon from dancing with Jeanette, this happens:Alvin: SSSSIIIIIIMMMMOOOONNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Brittany: Um Alvin, you're starting to sound like Dave.
(beat)
Alvin: Nooooooooooooooooo! - Robinsonade: The main plot of the third film is the main characters being stranded on an island.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: When Simon gets bit by a spider, his sophisticated vocabulary seeps into his panicked words, and he translates them to simpler terms for Alvin's sake:Zoe: That was just a spider and they live here, because this is nature.
Simon: This is not just a spider! That's a "phoneutria bahiensis"! Its bite contains a neurotoxin!
Alvin: Ooh, Mr. Fancy Words. So what?
Simon: Alvin, toxin: poison, neuro: brain?!
Alvin: Oh, that's not good. - The Stinger: Dave and the Chipmunks and the Chipettes are about to board the plane back home when Alvin tricks the passengers that the plane's headed to Timbuktu. Then Alvin accidentally causes the tray table to plow right into Dave, culminating in the ever-predictable..."AAALLLLVVIIINN!!!!"
- Villainous Rescue: Zoe, after forcefully using Jeanette to get some of the treasure, saves Dave from a Literal Cliffhanger.
- You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Alvin is allowed on a waterslide by jumping above the "You Must Be This Tall" sign's height.
