| Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus | |
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| Directed by | Lynne Naylor |
| Produced by | Lynne Naylor Sam Raimi Robert Tapert |
| Written by | John Loy |
| Starring | Kevin Sorbo Lucy Lawless Michael Hurst Renée O'Connor Kevin Smith Alexandra Tydings David Mackie |
| Music by | Joseph LoDuca |
| Cinematography | Yoon Gun Wan-Ryeok Yim Hak-Su Yoon |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 6 January 1998 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country |  United States New Zealand |
| Language | English |
Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus is a 1998 animated action adventure direct-to-video film starring the voices of Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Michael Hurst, Renée O'Connor and Kevin Smith, all reprising their roles from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. It was directed by Lynne Naylor and written by John Loy.
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Plot
The movie starts with the Sirens singing Across The Sea of Time, which is about how Zeus took the Cronus Stone from the Titans and had a fling with Alcmene and had a son named Hercules, who defeated a hydra at an early age and became a hero. As they finish, a giant sea serpent comes from the sea and Hercules is trying to kill it. He finally throws a giant rock in its mouth but it jumps on the shore and lands on top of Hercules. It can not live on land so it dies and Hercules climbs out of its nostril. The villagers thank Hercules, and Iolaus climbs out of a restchair and joins Hercules, who gets a big fish as a gift from the villagers. Hercules and Iolaus head to Thebes to see Alcmene but Iolaus is a little upset because Hercules gets all the credit. However the two defeat several highwaymen and all is okay. Satyrs are in a bar having stolen gold from helpless people, so Xena and Gabrielle show up to beat them up and take the money back. Ares shows up after Gabrielle throws wine at a satyr and beats him up with her fighting stick. He tells Xena to stop Hercules from going to Thebes because there is a trap set for him there. Xena wants Hercules to go because there is trouble and he needs to help. She is angry because Ares never gives up and wants her. She and Gabrielle argue about his intentions for short time.
Hercules is acting like a horse and pulling an old style plow at his mom's house. Iolaus is tired but they see Zeus come from the heavens in his chariot, winged horses like Pegasus driving the chariot down. He takes Alcmene to Mount Olympus and Hercules is angry. Iolaus thinks Alcmene went on her own because she put up no fight but Hercules disagrees and pushes Iolaus against a wall in his anger. Hercules says sorry and they both head off to rescue Alcmene. Zeus talks to Ares and wonders why he did not stop Hercules. He says he tried to get a mortal named Xena to do it and Zeus is angry because Ares keeps wanting Xena. Hera shows up, and yells at Zeus about bringing Alcmene here. She leaves and somehow steals the Cronus Stone, the stone that keeps the Titans in the Underworld lava pits. Hera summons the Titans out while Zeus checks on Alcmene, who has been shrunk and placed in a small Arabian doll house castle for safety from Hera. Aphrodite surfs down a mountain and makes Iolaus very happy and hugs her brother Hercules. She tells Hercules that Hera is angry and not to go to Mount Olympus for his own good, but he decides to go and Iolaus stays behind to entertain the Goddess of Love, but she leaves when an earthquake starts. Due to the earthquake a small boy falls into the lava pits, Hercules holds the colliding ends together and Iolaus pulls up the boy making both heroes. The mother takes her son as Xena and Gabrielle, in a nearby town, battle three thugs who they beat easily and Xena must stop a rolling giant rock from destroying the fat thug. As she is successful, they show Hercules meeting the Titan Porphyion. The leader of the Titans tells Hercules that he can go free because he is not defending the gods. Zeus calls Artemis, Aphrodite, and Ares together to fight the Titans and they hope Hercules will help them. Xena and Gabrielle are helping wounded people and Artemis decides to get Xena's help and turns Gabrielle into a giant bird. Xena flys on Gabrielle to the gods' home while Hercules climbs up. Artemis says she changed Gabrielle into a bird to get Xena's help and Xena said that all she had to do was ask for help. The Titans come and fight. Hercules shows up and rescues Alcmene and leaves everyone to fight the Titans. Hera turns the gods into animals afterwards. Iolaus and Xena escape on Gabrielle to Alcmene's house. Everyone is upset because Hercules did nothing to help Alcmene. Hera uses the stone to turn the gods into small animals, stripped of their powers. Ares is a goat, Aphrodite is a cow, Artemis is a rabbit, and Zeus is a mouse. Hercules finds out that Alcmene was sick and Zeus offered to make up for hardtimes by giving her immortality and taking her to live with him on Mount Olympus. Hercules is still angry at Zeus.
The Titans sing a song and then it is back to Earth, where Xena sings a song to Gabrielle and both her and Hercules makeup and agree to help the gods get their home and stone back. Hera tries to force the Titans to do her bidding, only to make them more powerful. The Titans strip the stone away from Hera and make her doll-sized in the dollhouse. Alcmene by the way has been turned back into a normal person. The heroes ride Gabrielle to the mountain and fight the Titans. Hercules gets the stone and tears it apart and thus the Underworld caverns open and the lava pits are displayed. Hercules and Xena flip the fat wind Titan, Crius, into the lava and Iolaus gets the female water and fire Titans to collide and dissolve into the fiery pits. Gabrielle scoops up Porphyrion who had grabbed Hercules. Hercules manages to reach Gabrielle's back, where Xena and Iolaus are sitting and Gabrielle drops the Titan into the cavern, catches a falling Hercules, and drops him off on the gods' mountain in time to close the stone which locks the Titans in their prison of lava. Zeus and Alcmene go back to Olympus and Zeus welcomes Hercules to visit; Artermis turns Gabrielle back to normal, who seemed to enjoy the experience to fly. Hercules then heads off with Iolaus, Gabrielle, and Xena to Corinth to return a bag of gold and seek another adventure.
Awards
- Nominated to Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production, in 1998.
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