i "heart" alvin and the chipmunks

I know it sounds stupid, but they cover all these annoying songs that I don't normally like but somehow those little high-pitched voices make the songs so freaking funny I can't get enough of it. I could buy the soundtrack, I'm that hooked. I know most people my age didn't see the movie, hell, most people didn't see it period, but it was a very nostalgic experience for me. They are just as great as the Alvin, Simon and Theodore I remember from being a kid- except I don't spend the whole movie wondering what kind of freak green ooze enlarged them all to the size of kids. (I wondered that a lot, especially after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit the scene. It was usually difficult for me to suspend belief about movies and shows. People could trick me into or convince me of anything, but a cartoon, how dare it not be realistic!?) Then I discover, watching the credits to the new movie, actually, that the original, as in very first, as in before I was born, chipmunks were the size of, wait for it...chipmunks. I win! They probably decided to enlarge them to help kids relate to them as characters. This obviously worked, because everyone I've talked to about this new movie is pissed that the "new" chipmunks are natural size. I related to the fact that the lived in a tree house, and what kid doesn't want to live in a tree house? Maybe they couldn't justify the chipmunks living in a tree house if they were tiny enough to sleep in a basket. Oh well, you win some, you loose some.