Directed by:
Ray GoossensScreenplay:
Jos MarissenComposer:
Gérard CalviCast:
Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière, Michael Elphick, Bernard Lavalette, Pierre Trabaud, Jacques Morel, Bill Oddie, Georges Carmier (more)VOD (1)
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In the year 50 BC, ancient Gaul (France) is completely occupied by the Roman Empire - except for a small village, which holds out against the Roman invaders with the assistance of a magic potion which conveys superhuman strength, brewed by their druid. Finding out about the potion, a Roman Centurion kidnaps the druid to learn the secret of the potion, leaving the village's hero, Asterix, to save the day. (official distributor synopsis)
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There’s no biggest fan of Asterix than me, I grew up with the comics and I know most of the stories by heart. That's why I can't accept its animated form, which is a mere pastiche compared to the books. What happened to Goscinny's clever humour? Where is Uderzo's artistic brilliance? Both of Asterix's "spiritual fathers" have nothing to do with the animated films and the result shows it. Asterix is for me an intelligent kind of humour, like Cimrman here for example, but the animated versions are not like that and they are quite different from the printed ones, they lack the ambiguous humour. You'd better read Asterix.
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The first Asterix movie doesn't reach the quality of its legendary successors, but it's still a force to be reckoned with. It is, after all, a stepping stone to the piles of battered Romans and the imaginative humour that entertained children and adults then, and continues to do so today. There are already some nice dialogues and motifs that show the genius and timelessness of Goscinnny's humour.
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I'm going to repeat myself again, but this Asterix just didn't work for me at all. The music got on my nerves after constant repetition, the scarce number of good one-liners, the absence of Dogmatix, I really didn't like it. On the other hand, I do take into account that this is the first episode.
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The now classic that introduced Asterix and Obelix to the television screen. It's not as elaborate and there's less subversive humour compared to the comics. It certainly doesn't have the quality of later sequels, but it's still solid entertainment where the simple antics of the Romans will keep the kids reliably amused.
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I guess I give 60% of this film's appeal to nostalgia, as it's still quite decent for an animated film, but the story is so simple and silly that one wonders how it actually filled an hour-long movie. It's an introduction of characters to the film, at least an animated one, and there's not much else to take from it. The good movies are yet to come.
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