The Boys are back in town... and they have competition.

Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school's music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes - Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.
In Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “chipmunk high school”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, competition, music, fame, adolescence.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Turbo (2013)consciousness in animals · snail‑racing world
Thelma the Unicorn (2024)consciousness in animals · animal music world
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic surf island
Shark Tale (2004)consciousness in animals · marine metropolis
Bolt (2008)consciousness in animals · animal‑star world
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic canine worldThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Dead Talents Society (2024)consciousness in the dead · competition, fame
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · competition, identity
Monsters University (2013)consciousness in monsters · competition, identity
Inside Out 2 (2024)consciousness in abstractions · adolescence, identity
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)consciousness in machines · competition, identity
Trolls World Tour (2020)consciousness in monsters · identity, musicShared director or cast.