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Animalympics
Sign in to saveAnimalympics is a 1980 American animated sports comedy television film directed by Steven Lisberger and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network. Originally commissioned as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer, and Michael Fremer. The film spoofs real-life sports personalities like Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali.
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6.2Animalympics is all about the Animal Olympics Contest where all the animals around the world gather to take part in everything from skiing in North America to the very long marathon race in humid conditions.
Cast
- Gilda Radner as Barbra Warblers / Brenda Springer / Cora Lee Perrier / Tatyana Tushenko / Dorrie Turnell / The Contessa (voice)
- Billy Crystal as Rugs Turkell / Joey Gongolong / Art Antica (voice)
- Harry Shearer as Keen Hacksaw / Mayor of Animal Olympic Island / Burnt Woody / Mark Spritz (voice)
- Michael Fremer as Henry Hummel / René Fromage / Kit Mambo / Bolt Jenkins / Kurt Wuffner / Dean Wilson / Jackie Fuelit (voice)
Themes
- sports
- olympic games
- parody
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- animated film
- Genre
- sport film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Steven Lisberger
- Screenwriter
- Steven Lisberger
- Voice actor
- Harry Shearer
- Composer
- Graham Gouldman
- Duration
- 75
- FilmAffinity ID
- 195273
- Distribution format
- direct-to-video
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- publication date
- 1980-05-15
- title
- Animalympics
- distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- original broadcaster
- NBC
- fabrication method
- traditional animation
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Animalympics is a 1980 American animated sports comedy television film directed by Steven Lisberger and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network. Originally commissioned as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer, and Michael Fremer. The film spoofs real-life sports personalities like Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali.
== Plot == The film is a series of vignettes presented as the broadcast of the first animal Olympic Games through the fictional ZOO television network. The Games combine summer and winter Olympic events.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Animalympics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.