Nostalgia Bomb: Animalympics

[dominochan]

Recently, I've been looking up semi-obscure flicks from my childhood. As it turns out, a good portion of these have yet to be released on DVD in the US. Animalympics being one of them.

It's a 1980s animated flick featuring the first ever animal-based Olympic games. The story centers mainly around the 14 day marathon and a tie between Europe's runner René Fromage and Africa's Kit Mambo. Other summer (and even winter) sports are featured, such as gymnastics, fencing, track and field, and weightlifting.

The animation is amazing as most of the main staff went on to do big name cartoons, and the voices are pretty varied considering there are only four names credited in the cast. I highly recommend it.

Edit: it seems it got taken down from YouTube for ToS. Yay. But yes, go look for it on YouTube since I dun want to risk it getting taken down again.

Comments

[sarahtheboring.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only person who remembered this freakin' movie! Heeee.

I got yelled at in gym class for imitating the marathon runners' stride while we ran laps. True story.

The fencing part was also awesome, or at least I thought so at age ~7.

Thanks for unearthing this. ;)

[dominochan.livejournal.com]

Really? I've seen people do the wider strides and they were faster than everyone else. XD

The fencing is probably one of my favorite parts outside the hockey bit. I can still quote part of the hockey speech to this day.

No problem. Figured I'd introduce it to the younger folk on my flist. The rest of us can watch it again and appreciate the jokes that we missed as kids. :3

[sarahtheboring.livejournal.com]

I was faster than everyone else, until they yelled "Stop that, RUN NORMAL." Tch.

[capsulecorp-tm.livejournal.com]

OHMYGOD NANA THIS WAS LIKE MY FAVORITE MOVIE WHEN I WAS A KID

I WATCHED IT INCESSANTLY my family was well-off enough to have HBO when it first came out and I would drop everything to watch it every time it was on.

I WANT THIS ON DVD HHNNNNNGGGFRHGHGH

[dominochan.livejournal.com]

I KNOOOOW!! It's only out on Region 2 DVD so far. ;___;