The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)

★ 6.8 1h 17m 111 votes IMDb

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!

The Chipmunk Adventure

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Cast

Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.
Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. as David Seville / Alvin Seville / Simon Seville (voice) Age 76 · Los Angeles, California, USA Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was born on October 25, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Ross Dickran Bagdasarian. He is an actor and producer, known for Alvinnn!!! And the Chipmunks (2015), Alvin & the C...
Janice Karman
Janice Karman as Theodore / Brittany / Jeanette / Eleanor (voice) Age 71 · Los Angeles, California, USA Janice Felice Karman (born May 21, 1954) is an American actress, film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist. She is the co-owner of Bagdasarian Productions with her husband Ross Bagdasar...
Dody Goodman
Dody Goodman as Miss Rebecca Miller (voice) Died 2008 · Columbus, Ohio, USA Dody Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, her distinctive hig...
Susan Tyrrell
Susan Tyrrell as Claudia Furschtien (voice) Died 2012 · San Francisco, California, USA Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012) was an American character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadw...
Anthony De Longis
Anthony De Longis as Klaus Furschtien (voice) Age 76 · Glendale, California, USA Anthony Charles De Longis (born March 23, 1950) is an American actor, stuntman, and fight choreographer..
Frank Welker
Frank Welker as Sophie / Native Chief / Baby Penguin / Additional Voices (voice) Age 80 · Denver, Colorado, USA Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor with an extensive career spanning nearly six decades. As of 2021, Welker holds over 860 film, television, and video game credit...

Audience Reviews

RealZero 7/10 Feb 13, 2026
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 adventure, just like what they're always about, it's certainly fun!

I was surprised about the backgrounds. Like in many bigger animated movies with theatrical release at that time, many of the scebe backgrounds look really lovely and detailed.

Several statues in Greece, detailed trees and other plants in the jungle, the movie really uses the "travel around the world" theme to show off some really nicely painted locations!

In addition to that, the characters, well, mostly the Chipettes, are even shown in several different kind of outfits of several styles, and I always love when cartoons actually give characters different outfits from time to time.

With the quite serious antagonists, parts of the movie even felt like a slightly more lighthearted, slightly less emotionally deep "Rescuers" adventure, and thr variety of music moods is nice, as well.
I mean, hey, there's a dance scene with snakes!

So, yeah, if you liked the 1983 show, Chipmunks and Chipettes in general, or just a cute, mostly child-friendly adventure, you might like this. I certainly did.

Fair warning: Like other reviews said, this movie DOES contain several racial stereotypes, like dangerous Arabs and human sacrifice indigenous people.

But that aside, a fun and cute movie.

As usual I like Simon and Jeanette the most! 😊

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