 In an August 2007 survey of 750 American teens ran by eCRUSH and OTX, "Alvin and the Chipmunks", alongside "Saw IV", "", "Mama's Boy", "Fred Claus", "I Am Legend", and "Enchanted", were the most anticipated films of the 2007 fall and winter seasons in the group.Internationally, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" was released in Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles on December 12, 2007; Greece, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, and Singapore on December 13, 2007; Iceland, Romania, and Turkey on December 14, 2007; Bahrain, Belgium, France, Jordan, Oman, South Korea, and Switzerland on December 19, 2007; Chile, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Lebanon, Kuwait, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Slovakia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates on December 20, 2007; Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and Venezuela on December 21, 2007; Ecuador on December 22, 2007; Africa and Taiwan on December 28, 2007; Colombia, New Zealand, and Peru on January 1, 2008; Argentina, Australia, and Bolivia on January 3, 2008; Brazil, Central America, and Uruguay on January 4, 2008; Egypt on January 9, 2008; Serbia and Montenegro on January 10, 2008; Poland on January 11, 2008; the Philippines on January 16, 2008; Croatia and Slovakia on January 17, 2008; India, Indonesia, and Italy on January 18, 2008; the Dominican Republic on January 24, 2008; Denmark and Sweden on February 1, 2008; the Netherlands on February 6, 2008; Finland and Norway on February 8, 2008; Slovenia on February 14, 2008; Vietnam on March 14, 2008; and Japan on September 13, 2008.Months before its release, bloggers predicted "Alvin and the Chipmunks" to be terrible due to the involvement of the director of "" (2006); the writers of the "Ice Age" films, "Robots" (2005) and "Big Momma's House 2" (2006); and the poor quality of previous live-action adaptations of old cartoons.