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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91ColliderRoss BonaimeColliderRoss BonaimeChip ’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.
- 80SlashfilmJosh SpiegelSlashfilmJosh SpiegelChip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers is a proudly very daffy and strange movie.
- 80EmpireNick de SemlyenEmpireNick de SemlyenReminiscent 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.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThis 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.
- 75IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandIt makes for a creative, clever watch, though one that seems exclusively imagined to cater to the series’ older fans and otherwise mature audiences.
- 71PolygonPetrana RadulovicPolygonPetrana RadulovicMore 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.
- 70VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonThis 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.
- 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.
- 63The Associated PressLindsey BahrThe Associated PressLindsey BahrIf 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.
- 42The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardThe A.V. ClubCourtney HowardRather than major fits of laughter, chuckles of acknowledgement pepper the audience’s viewing experience, at least for folks over the age of 25.