I was able to wriggle out of reviewing “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel” earlier this week, so I don’t know whether it really is as bad as its 2007 predecessor. Which was really, really terrible.

But Neil Genzlinger’s New York Times review makes me think I missed a golden opportunity to see a movie so wretched that you can have a great deal of fun writing about it.

Ah, well. There’s always DVD …