Gallavants

1984 animated feature film

Annie Shaw Marcus
Jack Mendelsohn
Shasti Frigell O'Leary
Don Smith

Produced by

Lee Gunther
Don Smith
Ralph Smith
Art Vitello

Starring

Robert Lydiard
Vic Perrin
Peter Cullen
Joyce Gittlin

Edited by

Joe Siracusa
Don Smith
Art Vitello

Music byStan Wietrzychowski

Production
companies

Marvel Productions
(Marvel Television)

Distributed byShapiro Entertainment
Mediafare Entertainment
Celebrity Home Entertainment

Release date

1984 (1984)

Running time

1 hour 44 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$5 million

Gallavants is an American 1984 animated musical film produced by Marvel Productions, and released on home video. It was based on a toy line by Amtoy.^[1]

Plot

Gallavants are ants living in their own fairy-tale land, Ganteville. The little ones have to go to school in preparation of their adult life as working ants. However, one pupil, named Shando, thinks he doesn't need to take lessons and work hard, in order to find his destination in life. He has to learn the hard way... He goes on many adventures to earn his "kabump," a bump on his abdomen that signifies his rank as a fully-fledged member of Gallavant society, and along the way must rescue a lost Gallavant egg and outsmart a Vanterviper, a two-headed worm-like creature resembling an amphisbaena that eats the Gallavants and their eggs. He also meets a small, mysterious bouncing ball that is thought to have been a runaway egg that got exposed to the light, which he mistakes for his kabump.