Tokyo Onlypic

Tokyo Onlypic is a satire on the olympic games. They were edited together by filmmaker Mashima Riichiro, and one of the games was also from his hand. The games are played in segments and everyone of them was made by a different filmmaker. The games are made in animation, stop motion or real images.

While the real olympics of 2008 took place in Beijing, the olympics in Tokyo Onlypic, as the name suggest, take place in Tokyo. In the opening ceremony Mashima makes fun of Japan's pacifist ideal by having pidgeons be the symbol of the olympics. After that the games begin, which are made to be as absurd as possible.

For example, one of the games of the film is the ''Mother Independence'' game. Here the contestants are mother's babies who have to throw their mommy away as far as possible. The Japanese guy throws best, but goes after his mom, which makes him disqualified. Obviously a satire on the Japanese kids living home till an old age, compared to other countries.

While some games can be extremely funny, the film takes way too long. After 30 minutes you've had enough of some of the bad animation and corny jokes. Some parts are just plain bad, too.

But the best advice to sit the entire 130 minutes through, came from Mashima himself in the introduction. If there's a bad part, please don't leave the screening room but take a nap instead. 

** (out of 5)