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Bookmark this pageAnimalympics (1979)
Director: Steven Lisberger
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Conceived in 1976 as a 7-minute parody of the media coverage aroused by the Olympic Games, this animated film eventually turned up 73 merciless minutes longer. Using an assortment of animals and an armoury of terrible puns to run national stereotypes into the ground, it might have been tedious-but-funny. Actually it's just tedious, with a shampoo-commercial soundtrack from songsmith Graham Gouldman.Author: CR
Cast & crew
Director: Steven Lisberger
Producer: Steven Lisberger, Donald Kushner
Cast: Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Harry Shearer, Michael Fremer full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 80 mins
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