Olympics 2008 Monkey Movie - BBC Sport

Added: Jul 24, 2008

From: BBC

Duration: 2:0

The Olympics 08.08.08 http://www.bbc.co.uk/monkeyolympics BBC Sport's marketing campaign and titles for the forthcoming Olympic Games are based upon the traditional Chinese folklore 'Journey to the West'. The animation and music were specially produced by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn.

Channel: Film

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Rating: 4.69 (4592 ratings)    Views: 1436430' favoriteCount='10913    Comments: 25

birdman5050 Says:

Nov 19, 2008 - lol 49 is a snap at Dragon ball

primeman12345678 Says:

Nov 19, 2008 - the reason that it looks like he was riding a cloud and how most people would find that a "rip" off of dragonball is because the guy who made dragonball made journey to the west too. The artstyle is also made by the guy who designed the gorillaz fictional faces.

Codeyellow07 Says:

Nov 19, 2008 - FUCKING SWEET!

xNoorie Says:

Nov 19, 2008 - can you get it on itunes.? I mean the song because it really awsome.. but i found out that you could download it from the bbc.. but only from 08.08.08 < crap.. But If can find it somewhere else. thats great.

Eamonio Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - Dragon Ball's based on this!!!! Damon Albarn KICKS ASS FOR DOING THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zombiebackrub Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - no, the guy who made dragonball based it off of journey to the west. journey to the west is an ancient chinese story, dragonball is japanese and fairly recent

wen2669 Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - his name is monkey king

leonelsandub1 Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - Excelente animación! Me encanta!!! *--*

TheMercwithaMouthRAS Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - So this monkey is based on goku but goku looks nothing like him

Erinwolfrus Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - oh hey! same guy who did gorillaz and tank girl! neat!

Tamaman12100 Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - yes its an old chinesse story called: the journy to west

Heiliger Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - The vocal from the white goddess is taken from the track "Monkey Bee" from the Monkey: Journey to the West opera. The track on this video, in and of itself, however, is an original Damon Albarn work, and is not found elsewhere... Unfortunately.

OLDEN1992 Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - no goku is based on the monkey...-_-

lisa23gr Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - i think from now on you can have it. you can visti the official site and see it.

damaddok Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - For clarification if anyone still does not know, DBZ's Goku is based off the monkey, or the Monkey King from Chinese Mythology. Look up 'Sun Wukong' if you still don't get it.

josebp3 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - This is from the same guys who mades gorillaz i knew i reconized this this is monkey he is also an artis the people that made gorillaz made him also nice vid heje

5600981 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - it's "西游记". My favourite CHinese mythology

Bauch373 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - nice animation!!! Really cute!!!

sabytheblackcat Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - Yeah it is, it is called journey to the west, the monkey king son goku is the monkey and he is acommpainned by a pig and a seamonster named chohakaii and i dont remeber lol... son goku the monkey traveled on a flying cloud and had a magical staff that growed of size

Inuyashalover19645 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - Jamie Hewlet is Amazing ^-^ GORILLAZ AND MONEKY FOREVER!

langstropicalfish Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - Great Video!!!

funnaychick Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - cool!!

sendtothefunnyfarm Says:

Nov 23, 2008 - apparantly this was party something to do with some old 1970s program

Inuyashalover19645 Says:

Nov 23, 2008 - also Damon Albarn, forgot to add it XD

wzc722 Says:

Nov 23, 2008 - 囧rz