While making my Emmys predictions a few months ago, I needed a final film to round out my picks for Outstanding TV Movie. I saw Disney+'s "Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers" was eligible and added it to my ballot as a joke, figuring I'd swap it out for a more serious film when voting got closer. After all, how could a hybrid live-action/CG animated film based on a late 1980s cartoon about anthropomorphic chipmunks be good? There was simply no way.
In the current landscape of Hollywood, adaptations, reboots, revivals, and sequels grow like weeds, choking what few original ideas are able to take root and grow. And "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers," with its meta storyline and frequent references to famous properties owned and controlled by Disney, appeared to be more of the same: an opportunity to cash in on the company's deep library through nostalgia-obsessed Millennials.
