Nostalgia is a fickle thing in the entertainment world nowadays. People enjoy looking back on the things they loved during their childhood, and taking a chance to revisit some of those things decades later can sometimes be fun. That’s rarely what actually happens, though. Film and TV studios have gone all-in on rebooting and reimagining old properties in order to try and get the attention of audiences, oftentimes completely ignoring story and character development in the process. It’s at the point where “nostalgia” has become something of a negative word with many critics and fans, as the efforts to mine joy out of the past takes precedence over simply making something good. On the surface, one might think that the Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie on Disney+ is just another cog in the eternal nostalgia content machine. Fortunately, that’s not the case at all.
