Alvin and The Chipmunks - Bom Chicka Wow-What?

Maybe I need to loosen up. But when I walked past the living room and overheard my five-year-old singing "boom-chicka-wow-wow" and saw her swinging her hips, I was concerned. Questions where she would have even picked that up raced through my mind - what is going on with Dora the Explorer these days? Is Yo Gabba Gabba some sort of porn-promoting program? But then I caught this trailer:

ALLLLL-VIN! indeed.

You've got Theodore growling suggestively at the housekeeper, the whole "boom-chicka-wow-wow" baloney, the Pussycat Dolls (Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?) - come on. I realize that trailers pull out snippets from the films, but who is this film being marketed to?

The other trailer for the film has the infamous poop eating scene as the punchline. What's wrong with poop eating, you might ask yourself - standard children's movie fare, right?

Jerry's daughter finds the whole concept hilarious:

We watched the preview for the upcoming Alvin and The Chipmunks movie. At the end of it, Alvin eats a raisin, spits it out, and chews out Theodore. A little adult humor here that Maya needs explained to her.

Maya: Why is he yelling at his friend about the raisin?

Daddy: Maya, its not a raisin, it is a chipmunk poop on the couch.

Maya: He put it in his mouth so his friend wouldn't get in trouble?

Daddy: Yes.

Wait for it.....wait for it......

There!

She laughed so hard that she was complaining about her tummy hurting. I have never seen anyone laugh that hard in my life. We watched it three times. Each time she laughed harder. By the time she got her composure back after the third one, she was in a little kid sweat fit.

I wonder if parents are going to end up explaining why Alvin is singing "boom chicka wow-wow."

Courtney's Movie Blog breaks it down for us in her entry: Ten Reasons why "Alvin and the Chipmunks" will be bad:

7. The scene from the trailer in which Alvin pretending one of Theodore’s — um — leavings and eating it so that Theodore won’t get in trouble with Dave. When a trailer shows a poop joke, you know it can’t be good....

4. The scene in the commercial where Simon growls suggestively at a hot housekeeper. If it was Alvin, I wouldn’t care, but SIMON?! Simon is supposed to be the smart, goody two-shoes, he isn’t supposed to be sexually active! Totally out of character...

And the number one reason I think this will be bad:

1. Alvin singing the Pussycat Dolls’ song (”Don’t You Wish Your Girlfriend…”) and chanting “Bow chicka wow wow.” That’s just scary. Yes, Alvin is the bad boy of the group, but he isn’t that bad. Those songs are not ones they typically sang. Yet another ploy to appeal to the MTV generation that will probably end badly.

Aaron paints a bleak picture in an entry entitled: This Christmas, Children Have A New Source of Poop Jokes

Yes, the toy/entertainment franchise that gave children a great excuse to huff helium is back. With it, I'm sure, will be a scourge of child abuse inspired by ceaseless imitations of the poop-eating scene.

Right on cue, my daughter just walked by singing that snippet of the Pussycat Dolls song. With so many quality movie offerings this holiday season, we're going to take a pass on Alvin and the Chipmunks. Do I need to lighten up, or is this movie as crude as I'm thinking?

Jenny Lauck is unplugging the television over at Three Kid Circus.