Alvin!!! Chipmunks Sequel Gets a Director!!!

I’m probably overly excited about “The Chipmunks” sequel – or as it’s known officially, “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel” – but we really loved the first movie. It’s just fun and goofy, and sometimes you need that.

Now it has a director: Betty Thomas. I still think of her as Officer Lucy Bates on “Hill Street Blues” – I guess old habits die hard. But she’s directed and produced a lot of movies since then, including “John Tucker Must Die” and “Surviving Christmas.” Though I’m not sure those movies are something I’d want on my credits list, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, I hope she does a good job with The Chipmunks. I hope it’s as good as the first movie. Although plot details for the “squeakuel” are under wraps, we know it’ll introduce the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes. Also, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney are returning to voice the parts of troublemaker Alvin, intellectual Simon, and chubby Theodore.

Not sure whether Jason Lee is returning, and casting of the Chipettes is still under way.

Image: Betty Thomas, John Tucker Must Die, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 2006