This collection contains the title episode, a spoof of the Rick Moranis classic, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, "Bigger" (from the Tom Hanks' film Big) and "Back to Our Future" (Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd's Back to the Future).
In "Funny, We Shrunk the Adults," Simon is working to perfect his shrinking ray, but is having problems. Before the experiment can get finished, Dave walks in on the brothers and tells them that he has invited the new neighbors over for dinner and asks the Chipmunks to clean the house up while he goes grocery shopping. At first, Alvin resents the chore, but when he glimpses the girl next door and falls for her, he grabs Theodore and Simon and goes to meet the neighbors.
A series of attempts to impress the girl and her brothers leads to the six kids wrecking havoc around the Seville abode. Unfortunately, a rogue skateboard causes the shrinking machine to go off and hit both Dave and the neighbor's baby sitter, who just happen to be walking up to the door in time to see the wreckage. Eventually, the two adults make it into the house, though in their smaller state, and the kids realize what is going on. It's then a race to find the grownups and bring them back to full size before Alvin gets in too much trouble.
"Bigger" has the trio trying to start up a band, called the Fur Balls, but every record producer in town tells them the same thing, they are too young and inexperienced. When Alvin, on a whim, wishes to be an adult to a supposedly magical juke box, he immediately grows up and wants to experience the freedoms that go along with his new age. Much like the movie this episode is based on, Alvin gets a big-time high-paid job, but quickly finds that the time he can spend with his friends is much less than he would like. Eventually, he realizes that all he really wants is just to be a kid again, especially when he starts alienating the other two in order to focus on his job, but can he find that jukebox and make things normal again?
In "Back To Our Future", my favorite episode on this disc, the Chipmunks' inventor friend Clyde appears in a strange time machine and tells them that the Alvin of 1958 is getting fed up with trying to become a music star and decides to work in a laundromat. So the trio has to go back in time and convince their oddly drawn counterparts that forming a band is the best thing for them. The two end up switching places in order to show the old time version how great their future will be like. The Dave of the past finds his chipmunks to be odd and throwing out crazy ideas like rap and synthesizers, meanwhile the present-time Dave also thinks something is wrong since they don't even know who Michael Jackson is. Eventually the past versions feel the future is better and decide not to go back, so of course the modern ones have to go back to the future and get the older ones to return to their own time. As you would expect from a Chipmunks' episode, the show results in a battle of the bands between the two styles of songs, but in the end, it all works out.
Alvin & The Chipmunks Go To The Movies was, quite simply, 80's-tastic (even though this season was technically early 90's) and really brought back some old memories. It's just fun to watch these guys, and of course, the characters' very deliberate and squeaky voices are just as they always were. This is a must buy for any fan of the old series, or a parent that remembers the show and wants to pass it along to their little chipmunks.
