Olympics 2008 Monkey Movie – BBC Sport

Posted by admin on January 29th, 2010 and filed under marketing campaign | 25 Comments »

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.

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25 Responses

  1. CrazyCluxso Says:

    diddykongvsluigi

    diddykongvsluigi
    HAHAHA!!!
    ITs the monky king a legendary story of japan… not dragonball…
    hahaha.. lol.

  2. pplkillppl Says:

    @DiddyKongVsLuigi …
    @DiddyKongVsLuigi Nice troll man.

  3. YoeNoKiAlbArn Says:

    love it
    the music, …

    love it
    the music,feels like a wave
    it looks little like japanese
    at last it stills be wonderful

  4. HelziiB294 Says:

    i likeeeeyy LMAO
    i likeeeeyy LMAO

  5. zzzdude9 Says:

    racist
    racist

  6. wangttang Says:

    Go read the book …
    Go read the book man……..
    The only thing that dragon ball relates to the novel is the Main character’s name OK fine and his staff and that cloud but that’s about it
    and no the novel is not written by a famous man in Japan, it’s done by a Chinese man name Wu Cheng’en During Ming Dynasty.(about 16th century)

  7. doublepa14 Says:

    is that monkey …
    is that monkey called Enma, i wanna know that legend

  8. jcheung87 Says:

    The story (Journey …
    The story (Journey to the West) originated from China not Japan. Why else would BBC use this reference for the Beijing 2008 olympics?

  9. DiddyKongVsLuigi Says:

    Am I gonna have to …
    Am I gonna have to be the one to say it? okay I will! This story is an old japanese story writen by a famous man, well, the creator of Dragonball,Dragonball Z, and Dragonball GT read this and decided to make an updated version of this, but the story was to plain alone, so he added Great apes, and King Picolo, etc. and, well, everyone liked it, so, he added all the DBZ and DBGT stuff. So give credit were credit is due. there is a cartoon of this, but it uses the same caracters from Dragonball! :)

  10. Bobman4671 Says:

    What’s the last …
    What’s the last song?

  11. Sebtastical Says:

    right we can never …
    right we can never get it right suncessively can we? ours wont be as good as this.

  12. girlontheoutside Says:

    when the pig is …
    when the pig is jumping over the stumps,

    was I the only thinking that super Mario had a face lift

  13. beefygoblin Says:

    @gtaaddict94


    @gtaaddict94

    Actualy it is the gorrilaz, and the art is by the same guy.

    Spot on.

    Monkey journey to the west.

  14. ChruthPower Says:

    lol they do, and …
    lol they do, and even the bad remakes of the original kicks this right in the ass.

    journey to the west FTW

  15. gtaaddict94 Says:

    the music reminds …
    the music reminds me of gorillaz’s dirty harry schtung chinese new year version

  16. WalterMaguire Says:

    this is based on …
    this is based on their opera “monkey journey to the west”
    by Gorillaz award-winning mastermind Damon Albarn and design and animation by Jamie Hewlett

  17. Alfrunk Says:

    Haiti looters are …
    Haiti looters are doing some monkey magic too!!1!!!

  18. Alfrunk Says:

    Maybe you should …
    Maybe you should send it to the ‘people’ in Haiti.

  19. Alfrunk Says:

    “Fail” huh? What …
    “Fail” huh? What are you, 8 years old? Good god you are a disgrace to humanity. Now, get over to Haiti and help stack bodies to protest the relief workers!!

  20. bxsephjo Says:

    yup.
    yup.

  21. bxsephjo Says:

    word. monkey looks …
    word. monkey looks like 2D, and odd water guy looks like murdock. gorillaz’ music too

  22. DrunkenFist20XL Says:

    Seeing this I now …
    Seeing this I now think China should have their own Cartoons.

  23. shiroloco Says:

    dragon ball fue …
    dragon ball fue inspirado de esa historia

  24. Zoorah Says:

    gorillaz’s animator?
    gorillaz’s animator?

  25. Ikarus361 Says:

    I heard rumours …
    I heard rumours that Damon Albarn will be the director of the opening ceremonies in 2012

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