A Monkey's Tale (1999 Movie)

This is an animated movie about a two groups of monkeys who, due to a severe flood, were seperated for generations until they became two different cultures: one tribal and relatively happy living in the tops of trees; and one below, civilized but full of corruption. In the story a tree-top living monkey named Kom, rebelling against his teacher, gets too close to the ground and falls down, blacking out. He is found by the king and his men whilst on a hunt, and they bring him back upon a donkey to their castle to study him. He then learns to become one of them. 
The tribal people are called Woonkos by the ground monkeys, which is a reference to Sun Wukong, suggesting that the writers had read the novel that he is from and that there could be more things in here based upon his story. The "woonkos" do not have a name for the civilized monkeys, instead not knowing of their existence, believing only in that demons live on the ground. The name for the ground-dwellers themselves are the Lanko, which kind of sounds like lanky, but it might be a coincidence. The monkeys are anthropomorphized and have hair, and with some of the men's medieval bob-cuts it does resemble that of toque macaques, as well as other macaques that have similar features. Their muzzles also resemble macaques for some, for other's humans. However, their arm proportions with their stubby body are more similar to a gibbon, which are also mentioned in that novel previously mentioned. As with most monkey movies, there are probably chimpanzee and gorilla references or attributes in it, given as a part of the subconscious of the artist minds if not conscious.
Category:Animated movies
Category:Monkeys