Gallavants

Gallavants
Gallavants
Directed by	Art Vitello
Written by	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 by	Stan Wietrzychowski
Production; companies	Marvel Productions; (Marvel Television)
Distributed by	Shapiro Entertainment; Mediafare Entertainment; Celebrity Home Entertainment
Release date	1984;
Running time	1 hour 44 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$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.