Alvin and the Chipmunks is a American Live-Action/Computer Animated Musical comedy film, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks or simply The Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band and media franchise created by Ross Bagdasarian for a novelty record in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. They are managed by their human adoptive father, David "Dave" Seville.