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3''A Monkey's Tale'' is an animated movie produced by Steve Walsh Productions. It was awarded the prize for Best Animated Film at the Hollywood Film Festival.
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5Kom, a rebellious teenage simian, falls from his TreeTopTown, down into the jungle, ignoring the local preacher's warnings that "''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Everything right is up here, and everything wrong is down there!]]''".
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7The unconscious Kom is found by the King of the Laanko monkeys, who live in a more medieval environment.
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9All the while the resident EvilChancellor, is plotting to poison the princess and usurp the thrown.
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11In 2019, a sequel titled ''The Prince's Voyage'' was released, following the King of Laanko, identified by the name of Prince Laurence.
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14!! Tropes used in the movie
15* AxCrazy: Gerard, voiced by Rik Mayall.
16* BigNo: More of a ''Big Monkey Screech'', done by Gavin, when Kom falls into the deep dark unknown.
17* BigYes: Done by Kom, when he finds out that once he's educated he'll get to meet the king, who saved him from the jungle.
18* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kom doesn't get the point of a maze.
19* CoolOldGuy: The King, who's hobby is ''hunting a tiger''.
20* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Korkornak's preaching that everything up here is good, and everything down below is bad, sounds a bit like Heaven and Hell.
21* EvilChancellor: Lord Sebastian, voiced with appropriate snark by Creator/JohnHurt.
22* HarmlessVillain: Gerard the Gormless.
23* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: [[spoiler: The Princess.As soon as she receives Kom's antidote, she's seen walking around and "ready to rule", as if the governess hadn't kept her in a coma for months.]]
24* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kom
25* LargeHam: Gerrard, voiced appropriatly by Creator/RikMayall.
26* LovableRogue: Kom.
27* MirroringFactions: The two monkey tribes.
28* NoNameGiven: The King of Laanko is the only major character whose name is never given and it would not be revealed as Prince Laurence until the sequel twenty years later.
29* PrincessesRule: An unusual example when one takes the sequel into account where the king is revealed to be officially styled as Prince Laurence, King of the Laanko. This means that his daughter Ida is officially styled as Princess Ida, Queen of the Laanko.
30* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Both the King and the Princess.
31* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King of Laanko.
32* SurroundedByIdiots: Lord Sebastian.
33* {{Tsundere}}: Gina.
34* UncertainDoom: The King of Laanko ends up floating away on an ice floe. It isn't until the sequel, released twenty years later, that we learn he survived.
35* UndressingTheUnconscious: Kom wakes up in the library to discover that his wounds were treated, but his thong was removed. Neither him or Gina seem to care.
36* VillainSong: Lord Sebastian has one of these in which he fantasises about reigning as [[CardCarryingVillain the greatest tyrant in history]].
37* WorthyOpponent: The King refers to the tiger he hunts as one of these.

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