When Jason Lee drank his way into the kind of celebrity he’s long deserved with ‘My Name Is Earl’, I, like I think a lot of his fans did, assumed he’d use his newfound clout to make the kind of awesome, significant, slightly sick, geek-powered movies we all knew he was secretly dying to do. Boy were we wrong.
Apparently now that Jason Lee is rich and famous, he wants to be even more rich and famous. So according to Variety he’s taken the lead in Fox 2000’s new movie version of the classic singing rodents cartoon series Alvin and the Chipmunks. That’s right, Jason Lee will stand around in front of a green screen and pretend to talk to rock and roll rats. He’ll be doing a lot of that, since he has the movie’s main human role, that of the Chipmunks’ dad/owner/manager/creepy dude David Seville.
This is all part of the plan for Lee, who seems to be working on building up a post-Earl resume of extreme shame. In addition to starring in Chipmunks, he’s also the voice of Underdog, in the certain to be horrible upcoming kids movie of the same name. What happened to the guy who explained the dangers of dating lesbians to Ben Affleck by racing them against Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? Where’s the dude who wooed Claire Forlani by telling her about his cousin Walter beating off on a plane? Where’s the sick bastard who came up with Kryptonite condoms? Has all his brilliance been wasted on growing that mustache? Get this man in a Kevin Smith movie, stat. Kev, how about a little Chasing Amy 2 for Jason? Brodie needs you.
Take a moment to remember the Jason Lee that was, by clicking play on some of the classic (and incredibly offensive) Lee clips below:
