While tutoring the Gallic chief Vitalstatistix's rebellious nephew Justforkix, Asterix and Obelix must rescue him from Vikings who wish to learn the meaning of fear to become invincible.While tutoring the Gallic chief Vitalstatistix's rebellious nephew Justforkix, Asterix and Obelix must rescue him from Vikings who wish to learn the meaning of fear to become invincible.While tutoring the Gallic chief Vitalstatistix's rebellious nephew Justforkix, Asterix and Obelix must rescue him from Vikings who wish to learn the meaning of fear to become invincible.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Astérix
- (voice)
- …
- Goudurix
- (voice)
- Abba
- (voice)
- Obélix
- (voice)
- Cryptograf
- (voice)
- Le narrateur
- (voice)
- Assuracetourix
- (voice)
- Chef Grossebaf
- (voice)
- Garçon viking
- (voice)
- Caraf
- (voice)
- Nescaf
- (voice)
- Télégraf
- (voice)
- Océanonix
- (voice)
- Olibrius
- (voice)
- Bonnemine
- (voice)
- Abraracourcix
- (voice)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe movie is base on the book "Asterix and the Normans" however it extends the plot and uses elements from some other books, notably "Asterix and the Great Crossing" - such us the viking party scene and the joke about Obelix supply, while the scene when Asterix and Obelix dress up as vikings "Asteraf and Obelaf" with Obelix who can't stop laughing about it, resembles the scene from Asterix and the Goths when the duo dress up as Romans "Asterus" and "Obelus".
- GoofsVikings are historically considered to have existed from 789 to 1100 AD. This makes the Vikings in the setting of Asterix (50 BC) about a millennium early. Although their progenitors obviously already existed, they are not considered Vikings and they were certainly not known as vicious raiders in the Roman empire, where the main contact with Scandinavia was through trade.
- Quotes
Abba: [Vikea has just given Timandahaf a "shopping" list of all the things she wants him to bring back from his raid. Abba walks in carrying a chest] Okay. Is it time to go, I'm all ready!
Timandahaf: Abba, I've told you a hundred times, this is not a pleasure cruise, it's a business trip!
Abba: Daddy, please... pretty please? Let me come with you just this once and then I'll never bother you again, I promise.
Timandahaf: Well... eh... Absolutly not! No women and no children on board!
[Abba keeps trying to get a word in]
Timandahaf: Don't argue! I have spoken! By Thor and Odin put together!
[Abba is clearly getting mad]
Timandahaf: And don't you go bezerk on me, young lady!
[Abba kicks down a shelf in frustration, which in turn knocks down the other shelves, destroying all the family's mugs and plates]
Vikea: I'll make you another list.
- Crazy creditsThe rolling credits are accompanied by rock cryptograms on which the Vikings and the Gauls are depicted.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Céline Dion: Let Your Heart Decide (2006)
- SoundtracksGet Down On It
Performed by Matt Pokora
Written by Ronald Bell (as Ronald Nathan Bell), Ray Wright, Kevin Bell, Callie Cheek, Peter Duarte, Wilson Beckett, Michael Cheek, Kevin Lassiter and Dennis White
1981 EMI Longitude Music/Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
With the authorisation of EMI Music Publishing France SA
All world-wide rights reserved
Produced by Mamadou Niakate
Guitars by Christophe Pantano
DJ: David Mezieres
Background voacals: Rudy Joseph
Recorded at Studio EMC Records
Mixed by Chris Chavenon at Studio Blaster
2005 M6 Interactions
What really rubbed me the wrong way, though, is how they incorporated a Disney-style plot into the film which took much of the focus away from Asterix and Obelix. We have a misunderstood boy who doesn't fit in, Justforkix. We have a tom-boy girl who doesn't fit in because she wants to be treated as equal to men, Abba. They meet and fall in love, but their love is threatened because boy is ashamed to be totally honest with girl, but in the end their love wins out. This has been the plot of so many Disney (and, be fair, other studios too) films that its not funny and the plot was old twenty years ago. I mean, they even gave Justforkix a whimsical animal sidekick.
Not only did I find this derivative and clichéd, but it really detracted from the story and left me dissatisfied.
I think that it speaks volumes about how superb the rest of the movie was that I still think very highly of it, despite the way the plot got hijacked.
- JasonLeeSmith
- Jul 5, 2007
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- Astérix et les Vikings
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- Gross worldwide
- $22,501,596
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1