Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Can you imagine your kids, glued to the television, watching a cartoon as if it were the real Olympics and rooting for their favorite team of cartoon characters to win? that's sort of exactly what this show was. I vaguely remember arguing with the twins next door about what team was better and worrying that the Really Rottins would win even though they always cheated and....the 80s were insane for children.Cartoon crack.And hysterical to boot.Unfortunately, as you get older, it's harder to really identify with cartoons and root for your favorite teams like you did when you were really little.It's harder to suspend your disbelief enough to convince yourself that, yes, this is a real competition like the Olympics for cartoons...But as a kid, this was awesome and as an adult, well, it's as nostalgic as it is embarrassing. The vague memories of your five-year-old self and how memorized you were by the Olympics, how much you felt was at stake...well...The good news is that now you can introduce it all to 5 year-olds and watch them get as excited about it as you were.

The biggest gathering imaginable was back in 1977 and 1978. ALl ABC needed on Saturday mornings were three variety shows, the Krofft Super Show, the SuperFriends, and this variety series. I never saw it as Scooby's All Star Laff a Lympics in its first year, but I heard the lineup consisted episodes of Scooby Doo and Dynomutt as well as 2 new shows, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angles. I don't think this series ran by itself on Saturday mornings, but it was fun to watch.The Laff a Lympics was probably the biggest draw. A huge all star cast of Hanna Barbera favorites. The Yogi Yahooeys, the Scooby Doobies and the Really Rottens competing in competitions around the world. Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf were hosts of this series. The Yogis team consisted of the cartoon cartoon characters from the 60's. I always rooted for the Scooby's team because Blue Falcon and Dynomutt were on this team plus this was the team of comedy adventure characters. I'd say with the exception of Mumbly I'm betting the rest of the Really Rottens were made up for this show.I never saw this series back in 1977, but I do remember seeing it when it was Scooby's All Stars in 1978. It consisted of the newer Scooby Doo episodes along with the Laff a Lympics and Captain Caveman shorts. I miss this format and I'm hoping that WB will consider releasing the latter shorts, Laff a Lympics and Captain Caveman. Laff a Lympics is a series not to be missed. I love it whenever Mumbly grumbles after losing to the Scoobys and Yogis. WB needs to release this series on DVD.

Okay,...I'll admit it. I hold a grudge against Hanna-Barbera Productions for doing so much to lower the standards for Saturday morning cartoons. Instead of the very high quality of the earlier Warner Brothers cartoons or even their own Tom and Jery cartoons of the 40s and 50s (yes, Hanna and Barbera first worked on excellent Tom and Jerry cartoons until MGM stupidly fired them and replaced them with cheap hacks), the Hanna-Barbera shows of the 60s and 70s were lousy all around--with rotten animation and writing most 12 year-olds would be ashamed to call their own. They KNEW HOW TO MAKE GREAT CARTOONS BUT GAVE IN TO THE DRAW OF FAST MONEY! So, gone were the high production values and they were replaced with crap like this! YOGI'S LAUGH OLYMPICS was a truly awful show that was sort of like combining THE WACKY RACERS with THE YOGI BEAR SHOW. Every episode was nearly alike and the show was only watchable by extremely young children. Anyone else would surely be bored.

This show was a spoof on the Olympic games. It features three teams Scooby Doobies, Yogi Yahooies, and the Really Rottens. They would compete in events that sometimes had a theme to them (water, round the world, etc). If a team placed in first they got 25 points, 15 for second place, and 10 for third place.When I was a kid, this was a 'toon I always tuned in to see. I loved seeing my favorite cartoon characters compete in Olympic style games. Although it was pretty unfair at times while we do expect the villains (the Really Rottens) to cheat, the good guys (the Yahooies and Doobies) sometimes cheated more then the villains AND got away with it 95% of the time. At least the Rottens won the gold two times.Oh and imo one of the reasons to watch was to see Daisy Mayhem of the Really Rottens. She was hot and voluptuous for a cartoon character back then.