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:
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If you remember, his impending doom could have been predicted back in 1998 when David Schwimmer tapped him to be his lovesick, loser friend in "Kissing A Fool." I'm not sure which was more hard to stomach from that film: That Jason Lee would be prone to stray from what fans love him for, or that David Schwimmer was supposed to be sexy?
Yikes! Voiceover work is one thing but this role seems like the kind of gig he'd take if he was on his way DOWN in terms of his career. Lee can do much better than this.
Terrible career choices!!!!! Who is guiding this guy? Oh yeah I almost forgot, all scientologists. Poor guy. He must have really given up on a real film career. Maybe if he can put the bottle down, and Kevin Smith takes pity on him, he can come out of this. Miramax wouldn't let him play Fletch because they didn't think he was good enough and refused to back him. So sad. Isn't he the guy in interviews always making it a point to say "its all about the quality of art blah blah blah" and its so obvious he's doing these projects for the money.
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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.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:27
We love you, Jason. RIP, buddy.
If you remember, his impending doom could have been predicted back in 1998 when David Schwimmer tapped him to be his lovesick, loser friend in "Kissing A Fool." I'm not sure which was more hard to stomach from that film: That Jason Lee would be prone to stray from what fans love him for, or that David Schwimmer was supposed to be sexy?