History WesternAnimation / Animalympics

-->'''Turkell:''' You let down your coach! You let down your country! You let down your mother! You're a bum steer! But most importantly, you let down yourself! And now you can let ''me'' down!

The voice cast consists of Creator/GildaRadner, Creator/BillyCrystal, Creator/HarryShearer, and the film's writer/co-director Michael Fremer in [[OneBookAuthor his only noteworthy acting role ever]], who are the ''only'' four voice actors in the film, each portraying [[ActingForTwo a wide array of characters]].

''Animalympics'' is an animated film produced by Steven Lisberger (who would later create ''Film/{{Tron}}'' for Disney). The film was originally conceived as a pair of specials for Creator/{{NBC}} to air during the 1980 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames (one for the Summer Games and one for the Winter Games), but the American boycott of the Summer games that year put the kibosh on those plans. Lisberger's studio instead released ''Animalympics'' in theaters as a single feature film.

** Subverted with Marcel Pourseau. If anything he comes off as a Determinator due to going for far as to being rebuilt as a cyborg after being crippled in order to keep skiing

The voice cast consists of Creator/GildaRadner, Creator/BillyCrystal, Creator/HarryShearer, and the film's writer/co-director Michael Fremer in [[OneBookAuthor his only noteworthy acting role ever]], who are the ''only'' four voice actors in the film, each portraying [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles a wide array of characters]].

* BareYourMidriff: A gender-inverted example with René Fromage. He spends the entirety of the movie in a cropped sleeveless shirt that exposes his bare stomach.

* SuicideAsComedy: At least, threatened suicide. When Tatyana Tushenko is about to receive her score, her coach has a noose around his neck and has ChatteringTeeth (she receives a perfect 10). This may be an allusion to Nadia Comăneci, who also received a perfect 10 from the judges in the 1976 Olympics--but, because the scoreboard could only display 9.99, [[BrokeTheRatingScale her score was accidentally displayed as an abysmal 1.00]].

* {{Gainaxing}}: Quite carefully attended to in one scene featuring Brenda Springer.
** Kit Mambo and [[NonMammalMammaries The Contessa]] are no slouches in this department either.

* HighDiveHijinx: The high dive event features a diving board ''100 meters'' in the air. As Mark Spritz says, it not only requires greats concentration, but also the leg strength just to reach the board.

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: One of the soccer teams is a South American pack of llamas.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Tatyana Tushenko is a sable, a species of mustelid that are usually overshadowed by its [[BadOlBadger badger]], [[PlayfulOtter otter]], and [[WickedWeasel weasel]] cousins.

* UpToEleven: The whole frigging movie. Examples:
** Bolt Jenkins breaks the high jump record at a height of 23.7 meters.[[note]]77 3/4 ft[[/note]]
** While he's at it, he proceeds with breaking the pole vault record at a height of 48 meters.[[note]]180 ft[[/note]]
** The diving platform is 100 meters. One could think that it takes Dean Wilson the length of a surf rock song to fall all the way down if Primo Cabeza didn't manage that within seconds.
** The 100-meter dash is actually a drag race.
** The marathon is stated to be 3500 kilometers (Which is roughly ''75 times'' the length of a traditional marathon) and the athletes are given 14 days to finish it; just to complete the race in that time would, at minimum, require maintaining an average speed of 20 kilometers/hour[[note]]about the same speed as the current world record for an Olympic marathon runner[[/note]] for 12.5 hours every day.
** Ono Nono is mentioned to weigh some 200 tons (actual orcas weigh 6.6 tons).
** You think Kurt Wuffner skiing down a vertical wall on a mountain is over the top? Well, watch him ski down an overhang, like, upside-down!
** The bobsledding track is more like a roller coaster, chain lift and all.
** A scoring example: Boardeaux gets 10 points for [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] Chardas who ends up with only 1 point. After the Contessa swoops in and wipes the floor with Boardeaux, she gets 100 points. Out of 10.

* WheelOfFeet: During the 100 Meter Dash, the contestants first show this, then [[UpToEleven take on the characteristics of drag-racing cars]]--complete with arms turning into exhaust pipes, bodies into engines, and releasing parachutes to stop them. They even do burn-outs before the race.

** Ono Nono is mentioned to weigh some 200 tons.

** The bobsledding track is more like a rollercoaster, chain lift and all.

* RandomEventsPlot: There's no real plot and the whole film just follows olympic event after olympic event.

** The marathon is stated to be 3500 kilometers and the athletes are given 14 days to finish it; just to complete the race in that time would, at minimum, require maintaining an average speed of 20 kilometers/hour[[note]]about the same speed as the current world record for an Olympic marathon runner[[/note]] for 12.5 hours every day.

* PrettyInMink: One of the Russian gymnasts is an elephant, and there is a shot of her wearing a russian lynx coat and hat. The other featured Russian gymnast ''is'' a mink.

* PrettyInMink: One of the Russian gymnasts is an elephant, and there is a shot of her wearing a russian lynx coat and hat.

* PopStarComposer: Graham Gouldman from the group Music/TenCc, which had a steady string of hits on the UK pop charts over the course of the '70s[[note]]two of which, "I'm Not In Love" and "The Things We Do For Love", also became Top 10 hits in the US[[/note]].

** The marathon is stated to be 3500 kilometers and the athletes are given 14 days to finish it; this would require maintaining an average speed of 20 kilometers/hour[[note]]about the same as the current world record speed for an Olympic marathon runner[[/note]] for 12.5 hours every day.

* PyrrhicVictory: Of a sort. The visuals to the song "Love's Not For Me" near the end suggest that René Fromage will get his gold--and have absolutely nothing else in his life. [[spoiler: That's not his actual fate.]]

** Bolt Jenkins breaks the high jump record at a height of 23.7 meters. [[note]] 77 3/4 ft [[/note]]
** While he's at it, he proceeds with breaking the pole vault record at a height of 48 meters. [[note]] 180 ft [[/note]]

** The marathon is stated to be 3500 kilometers and the athletes are given 14 days to finish it; this would require maintaining an average speed of 20 kilometers/hour [[note]] about the same as the current world record speed for an Olympic marathon runner [[/note]] for 12.5 hours every day.

* OhCrap: A few examples, particularly from athletes who realize that they're going to screw up. The first instance however is the horse Ilsa Blintz is going to vault over. When it sees the mass of hippo coming at him, it's expression goes ThisIsGoing ToSuck.

* EverythingsBetterWithDragons: The beginning has the Animal Olympics torch lit by the fire of a sleeping dragon.