With the blizzard of ’80s and ’90s reboots happening right now, it was inevitable that eventually pop culture would acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure around to two chipmunk crime-fighters who shun clothing below the waist. Chip and Dale are a relatively deep cut, as far as Disney animals go: while created in 1943, their peak period was 1989-’90, when they headlined their own TV reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , Rescue Rangers. By rights, their resurrection should possess’own’nurse been a low-key affair, exciting merely’barely the most ardent enthusiasts of woodland mammals. But along the way, ambitions got raised. And the final product will surely be in contest in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the most joke-packed, cameo-stuffed and just plain goofy (not to mention Goofy) movie of the summer.###While it’s not technically a new film by The Lonely Island — that crackerjack comedy trio, comprised of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, who brought us music-doc spoof Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — their gleeful pawprints are all over it. It has the same eodd’peculiar d-buddies set-up as Popstar, and the same sense of raucous, irreverent, anything-goes fun. With Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the eliminate’remove inspiration (Roger even makes a guest appearance), it may not reach the inky heights of Robert Zemeckis’ seminal live-action/toon mash-up, but has a hell of a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent time trying.###This film is at its fizziest when gleefully jabbing not merely’barely at trends, but at specific characters.###The plot isn’t peculiar ly novel: Chip (Andy Samberg) and Dale (John Mulaney), who live among humans in the real world along with other cartoons, possess’own’nurse fallen out since the ’90s, when Dale tried to break free with a James Bond-riffing solo project. Over the course of 90 minutes, they will reunite (apparently’manifestly’noticeably’evidently ) while on the hunt in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a kidnapped Rescue Rangers comrade who has a huge moustache, is named after cheese and is voiced by Eric Bana (apparently’manifestly’noticeably’evidently ). But this is all just set-up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a whip-fast volley of inspired, silly ideas, executed with brio.###The wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile guys, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding instance, are dead-eyed rejects from that period of history when animators strove in/with regard to’concerning’regarding photo-real verisimilitude (Zemeckis is the key inspiration in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this part of the film too; Seth Rogen’s shonky Viking-warrior heavy could be straight out of Beowulf). These ne’er-do-wells possess’own’nurse their base of operations in, of course, a scuzzy place called the Uncanny Valley. There are whispers of “Muppet fights”. As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the heroes, while Chip remains hand-drawn, Dale has had “CG surgery”, his fur now rendered cutting-edge.###In the decades since Toontown closed its doors, a lot has happened with animation. This film is at its fizziest when gleefully jabbing not merely’barely at trends, but at specific characters — a veritable multiverse of 2D madness, it throws toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her an army of notable’renowned’distinguished cartoon faces, hailing from eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything from South Park to The Jungle Book. But the funniest moments feature one who’s never previously made it to the screen. Yes, brace yourself in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ‘Ugly Sonic’, proof that hedgehogs with human teeth are not always a wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile idea.