The Chipmunk Adventure is a 1987 American animated musical-comedy film based on the Saturday-morning cartoon series Alvin and the Chipmunks. Directed by Janice Karman and written by Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr., it stars the voices of Karman, Bagdasarian, and Dody Goodman, and follows the Chipmunks and the Chipettes as they go on a hot air balloon race around the world that is the cover for a diamond smuggling ring.
After the success of his animated cartoon series on NBC, Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. began developing a concept for a full-length feature film. The box-office failure of Disney's The Black Cauldron in 1985 had led to the layoff of a number of Disney animators (such as Glen Keane, Dan Haskett and Dave Pruiksma), whom Bagdasarian promptly hired to work on his film.
Bagdasarian and his wife Janice Karman decided to finance the project themselves, having generated so much revenue from the Alvin and the Chipmunks TV series. Their decision to work with several overseas studios led to major production delays. By late 1986, production had fallen far behind schedule, and a shortage of time and money resulted in major cuts being made to the film. One deleted scene had the Chipmunks go to Russia.
Cast
| Image | Character | USA | Arg | Bra | Mex | Mex(2006) | Ger | Fra | Ita | Hun | Gree | Alb | Spa | Ita(TV) |
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Alvin | Ross BagdasarianJr. | Sônia Perez | MaríaFernanda Morales | Ricardo Mendoza | Nadja Reichardt | Marion Game | Alessandro Tiberi | Zoltán Bor | RafaelAlonso Naranjo Jr. | Laura Lenghi | |||
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Simon | Ross BagdasarianJr. | Tatá Guarnieri | Javier Rivero | Rubén Cerda | Simon Jäger | Luq Hamet | Massimo Corizza | Tamás Bolba | Diana Anselmo | ||||
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Theodore | Janice Karman | Angélica Santos | Alfonso Obregón | LuisAlfonso Mendoza | Luq Hamet | Alberto Caneva | José Luis Gil | Monica Ward | |||||
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Brittany | Janice Karman | Cecília Lemes | Rebeca Manríquez | Laura Ayala | Caroline Ruprecht | Stella Musy | Ilaria Latini | ||||||
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Jeanette | Janice Karman | Denise Simonetto | Diana Santos | Maggie Vera | Barbara Tissier | Gabriella Andreini | Cinzia Villari | ||||||
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Eleanor | Janice Karman | Marli Bortoletto | Rebeca Patiño | Isabel Martiñón | Beatrice Margiotti | Katerína Petoúsi | Maura Cenciarelli | ||||||
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Dave Seville | Ross BagdasarianJr. | Julio Fontana | Fábio Villalonga | Rubén Trujillo | Ricardo Mendoza | Stefan Gossler | Emmanuel Jacomy | Ambrogio Colombo | Fernando De Luis | Massimo Rossi | |||
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Ms.Beatrice Miller | Dody Goodman | Isaura Gomes | Carmen Donna-Dío | Patricia Quintero | Inge Wolffberg | Micheline Dax | Cristina Grado | Graziella Polesinanti | |||||
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Klaus Vorstein | Anthony De Longis | Elbio Nessier | LuizCarlos de Moraes | Humberto Vélez | Ricardo Hill | HansWerner Bussinger | Richard Darbois | Mauro Bosco | |||||
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Claudia Vorstein | Susan Tyrrell | Livia Fernán | Arlete Montenegro | Liza Willert | Yolanda Vidal | Karin Buchholz | Perrette Pradier | Daniela Gatti | Katerína Petoúsi | ||||
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Sophie | Frank Welker | Frank Welker | |||||||||||
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Inspector Jamal | Ken Sansom | Arakén Saldanha | Carlos Becerril | Pedro D'AguillónJr. | Kurt Goldstein | Michel Barbey | |||||||
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Arabian Prince | Nancy Cartwright | Zezinho Cútolo | Luis Alfonso Mendoza | Isabel Martiñón | Massimo Corizza | ||||||||
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Alvin | Angélica Santos |