Astérix aux jeux olympiques (2008)

Directors:

Frédéric Forestier
Thomas Langmann

Writers:

René Goscinny (comic book) &
Albert Uderzo (comic book) ...

Release Date:

25 January 2008 (Poland)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Asterix | Sequel | Roman Empire | Based On Comic | Character Name In Title

Cast

Gérard Depardieu	...	Obélix
Clovis Cornillac	...	Astérix
Benoît Poelvoorde	...	Brutus
Alain Delon	...	Jules Cesar (Julius Caesar)
Vanessa Hessler	...	Princesse Irina
Franck Dubosc	...	Assurancetourix
José Garcia	...	Couverdepus
Stéphane Rousseau	...	Alafolix
Jean-Pierre Cassel	...	Panoramix
Elie Semoun	...	Beta
Alexandre Astier	...	Mordicus
Elric Thomas	...	Abraracourcix (as Éric Thomas)
Dorothée Jemma	...	Bonemine
Sim	...	Agecanonix
Adriana Karembeu	...	Mme Agecanonix

Also Known As:

Asterix alle olimpiadi (Italy)
Asterix at the Olympic Games (International: English title)
Asterix bei den Olympischen Spielen (Germany)
Asterix en los juegos olímpicos (Spain)

Runtime:

116 min

Country:

France | Germany | Spain | Italy | Belgium

Language:

French | Portuguese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Portugal:M/6 | Germany:6 | Sweden:Btl | Finland:K-7 | Spain:T

Filming Locations:

Ciudad de la Luz, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company:

Pathé Renn Productions

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Speaking of Brutus, Cesar mentions the seven plagues of Egypt. There were ten plagues.

Movie Connections:

References Gladiator (2000)

Ne touchez plus Astérix, sales idiots! :@

Rarely I do feel so outraged, but this piece of mindless images-in-motion is positively a sacrilege. NOTHING remains of the bright and snappy Humor of Gosciny and Uderzo. The ONLY puns worth a half-smile are the meta-movie ones: Alain Delon mentioning guepards, samurais, Rocco's brothers and the Sicilians' clan, or Schumacher running in the race with a Ferrari battle-car - but even these are obsolete, old-fashioned and excessive. Further, the humor is admirable, sublime we can say, but totally amiss. ALL the gags are forced, painfully slow, grotesquely overdone. The script is an absolute mess - no convincing story-line, no dramatic structure, no sense of rhythm (all these being capital errors when doing a comedy; even more so, for such a difficult and ambitious comedy as Astérix: absurd, fantastic, cunningly warping history, childish in an intelligent way). All in all, as other comments rightly stated, this film-lenght is the worst of all three: definitely slow, much too long, outright boring and worse than amateurish - it's DILETTANTE! If you loved Astérix, avoid it - it will incense you. If you don't know the Gaul hero, avoid it harder - it will unfairly compromise him forever in your eyes. The ONLY Astérix remains the one in the toons and comic books.