20th Century Fox
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
Thinking of seeing "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked"? Star David Cross has some advice: Don't.
In an appearance on "Conan" this week, Cross, who plays Ian,?a Chipmunk-hating villain?stuck permanently wearing a pelican suit, attacked his own film.
"It was the most miserable experience I've ever had in my professional life," he told O'Brien. "It's a big commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines."
He also told the audience, "if you see the movie -- and DON'T."
Cross, who was raised Jewish, has drawn some criticism for the interview, specifically for describing a producer he clashed with as "the personification of what people think about when they think negatively about Jews."
O'Brien deftly changed the subject, but Cross' point had been that he didn't think he needed to be present for the week of filming onboard a Carnival cruise ship, since he's unrecognizable in the pelican suit anyway. The other producers agreed that a stand-in could fill in during that part of filming, but the particular producer he singled out disagreed.
O'Brien later poked fun at Cross' complaints when the actor commented that he did enjoy his IFC sitcom, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret." Joked O'Brien, "I don't know, you might say, ?'it was all fine, but there was one caterer who made me eat an almond I did not like.'"
On Thursday, Cross took to Facebook to clarify his remaks. He wrote that the producer in question was not Janice Karman, the wife of Ross Bagadasorian (son of "Chipmunks" creator Dave Bagdasarian), praising Karman and Bagdasarian for pleading his case with the still-unnamed producer.
Cross told the Los Angeles Times in 2009?that the "Chipmunks" series paid him twice as much as all his other creative projects combined, "and for very little work."
"Chipwrecked" has a pathetic 13 percent positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes.com. But Cross does come in for some praise. The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub?writes, "Cross is the rare actor who not only survives bad movies but actually becomes funnier when fleeing from a fake-looking erupting volcano."
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