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Animalympics.1980.DVDRip.XviD-FLAiR

+ Release Notes +

+ Title [ Animalympics
+ Release Date [ 02.15.10      + Source [ Retail DVD
+ Retail Date [ 10.05.07      + iMDB [ 6.2/10 (847)
+ Runtime [ 75 mins       + Movie Size [ 701MB / 50x15MB
+ Genre [ Animation/    + Extra Size [ 175MB / 13x15MB
Family/Sport

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078780/

+ Encoding Info +-

+ Audio [ 205kb/s VBR Joint Stereo  -V2
+ Video [ 624 x 464 @ 1123kb/s 25fps

-+ Release Information +-

DATELINE: PAWPRINT STADIUM, ANIMAL OLYMPICS
ISLAND - For the first time in sports history,
animals from five continents are on hand to
match their skills in world-class championship
athletic competition - and you'll see all the
action LIVE from Z.O.O., the network that
brings out "The Beast in Sports!"

Here's your ticket for a classic animated
special the whole family will enjoy. Animalympics
is a mad and marvelous cartoon comedy jam-packed
with a laugh menagerie of animal contestants.
For fourteen days, the competition rages.
You'll meet international stars like Bruce
Kawakimoto, the duck expert in the esoteric
martial art of "No Can Do"; Kit Mambo, the
long-distance lioness matched up against
Europe's top goat marathon runner Rene Fromage;
Byonique Boar, the mechanically perfect ski-slope
wizard, and lovely Eurasian gymnast Tatyana
Tushenko, whose floor exercises may floor you.

-+ Rip Notes +-

From Steven Lisberger, who would later go on
to make TRON, we (again) bring you this largely
forgotten classic. To celebrate the 2010 Winter
Olympics, we're updating our VHS rip from 2006
with a sharp DVD rip, unavailable in any English-
speaking countries! It has a German title screen,
but features the original English soundtrack.
We had to do a little cleanup on the spliced in
German intro, which was looking rather pale, and
like it had been stuck on a shelf for quite a
while.
Although it featured plenty of voice talent
(Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer),
Animalympics never got the exposure intended for
it. Originally commissioned by NBC as two separate
shows for each of the Olympics in 1980, only the
winter special aired. The other half was pulled
from the Moscow Summer Olympics, along with all
US athletes, due to Jimmy Carter's boycott of
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Who could have
known the US would find themselves occupying it
just a couple decades later? Anyhow, the two parts
were instead edited together into a feature length
animation piece, and although it saw very limited
theatrical release, it did well in the home video
market. While it was never regarded as much of
a success, several of its key animators went on
to do great things: Roger Allers directed The Lion
King, Bill Kroyer wrote and directed FernGully,
and, Brad bird wrote and directed The Incredibles
and Ratatouille. Many talented animators worked
on this, and it shows.

For your added entertainment, we also threw in
a 27 min long interview Steven Lisberger did with
himself upon the release of the DVD, which goes
into explaining many of the things we've already
outlined above.

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era long gone. A time of classic kids flicks,
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cheesy low-budget horrors. A time when pop had
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