Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): May 20, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 19, 2022
The new Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers movie is a delightful, zippy and genuinely fun thing Read full review
91
ColliderRoss BonaimeMay 17, 2022
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. Read full review
85
Film ThreatBobby LePireMay 25, 2022
The blending of animation and live-action is incredible, the pacing is swift, and the cast gives it their all. When combined with the strange but excellent sense of humor and strong characters, the picture becomes a lovely surprise. Overall, Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a fast-paced, humorous, action-packed ride the whole family will get a kick out of. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMay 17, 2022
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. Read full review
80
EmpireNick de SemlyenMay 17, 2022
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. Read full review
80
SlashfilmJosh SpiegelMay 17, 2022
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers is a proudly very daffy and strange movie. Read full review
75
IndieWireKate ErblandMay 17, 2022
It makes for a creative, clever watch, though one that seems exclusively imagined to cater to the series’ older fans and otherwise mature audiences. Read full review
71
PolygonPetrana RadulovicMay 17, 2022
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. Read full review
70
The AtlanticDavid SimsMay 21, 2022
Other films have skewered an industry that’s intent on bludgeoning audiences with their own fading memories, but only Chip ’n Dale actually gives those memories a new life. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 20, 2022
What it is, really, is a showbiz satire about media ownership and our nostalgia fixation, though it muddles its message before the tone gets too scathing. It is, after all, still a Disney movie, even if it takes a perverse pleasure in playing around with Disney’s vast catalogue of characters. Read full review
70
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 19, 2022
Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers isn’t so much based on the old animated series as it is a relentless mockery of it, along with just about everything and everyone else in soulless modern Hollywood. Read full review
70
The New York TimesCalum MarshMay 19, 2022
A wry take on the material that combines animation and live-action comedy, the movie has some of the hip flair and anarchic meta-humor of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” as well as an irreverent, self-referential attitude that’s rather appealing. Read full review
70
IGNMatt FowlerMay 17, 2022
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers isn't the first movie to do what it's doing -- with live-action and animation sharing the screen, helping nurture a meta-comedy adventure -- but it's damn fun and one of the cleverest uses of elder pop culture properties in a while. Read full review
70
VarietyAmy NicholsonMay 17, 2022
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. Read full review
67
ConsequenceGlenn RowleyMay 17, 2022
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. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comNick AllenMay 20, 2022
Take away the cameos—in the recording booth, and animated on-screen—and you get something that's a little too close to the same old junk. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrMay 17, 2022
If you must reboot an over 30-year-old Disney Channel cartoon like Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, you could do much worse than looking to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” for inspiration. But it is a high bar and though Chip ‘n Dale might not reach the heights of that Robert Zemeckis film, it is still a pleasant surprise stuffed to the brim with pop culture references that children of the Chip ’n Dale era may enjoy. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMay 21, 2022
Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers sees fit to both indulge in nostalgia – largely through Ellie’s wide-eyed adoration of the old show – and poke fun at it. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMay 19, 2022
It’s not quite on par with Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the film it undoubtedly wants to be likened to, but it’s infinitely better than it had any right to be. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichMay 27, 2022
There's a secret blandness behind the frantic insider gags. Read full review
50
The PlaylistAsher LubertoMay 19, 2022
While the creators do their darndest to make an animated version of “Adaptation,” they’ve instead made an animated version of “Space Jam: Legacy”–a series of callbacks to IP that serves no other purpose than to remind you that they exist. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 18, 2022
The “Rescue Rangers” is technically impressive enough to be worth a look. And if you’re of a certain age, it might give you a bit of the warm fuzzies. Read full review
50
Screen RantRachel LaBonteMay 17, 2022
Too often, though, the creativity gets bogged down beneath the references and standard mystery. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers still makes for an entertaining viewing experience, just as long as one doesn't mind the extra baggage. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardMay 17, 2022
Rather than major fits of laughter, chuckles of acknowledgement pepper the audience’s viewing experience, at least for folks over the age of 25. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMay 19, 2022
Just because you can shove a bunch of IPs together, should you? Especially when the motivation is a 90-minute joke about beloved TV series, with a lot of cheese-as-cocaine gags. Who is it for? People who still laugh at uncanny valley jokes. For those that don't, no reason to worry, because most of the references will be explained to you. Read full review
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