10 Most Horrifying Changes Of Animated Characters To Live-Action
7. Alvin And The Chipmunks (Alvin And The Chipmunks)
In their original animated forms, Alvin and his fellow Chipmunk brethren are nothing if not adorable. Their designs are endearingly cute, with Alvin, Theodore, and Simon all being easily differentiated by their own distinct color palettes.
In their live-action form, pretty much all of this craft is thrown out the window in favor of botched CGI. Like Scooby Doo before them, these designs eschew what made their animated counterparts so iconic in favor of generalizing them and attempting to strike a blend between animation and photo-realism. Again, it's not that this can't be done well, it can (see: The Jungle Book). It's that these designs actively dilute what made the original designs so special.
Over the course of four live-action movies(!?!), the effects in these films only got lazier and lazier. To the point that the final film, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (real title, not made up), might as well just be an animated and live-action film haphazardly cut together because it never even once pretends like its trying to make you believe these CGI creatures actually exist within the frame.