Rank the Asterix movies


Here is my ranking of live action Asterix films. What is yours ?

1. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Chabat has made a very funny Asterix episode, with a lot of spoofs and a Les Nuls spirit. It is sometimes quite difficult to get all the references at once, and several watchings may be necessary, which is a good point.

2. Asterix at the Olympic Games
That film had very poor reviews. I expected something awful but it turned out I found it not that bad. Alain Delon is the best Julius Caesar you could ever dream of. Benoît Poelvoorde in the role of Brutus is amazing too. José Garcia and Elie Semoun are also very good. The filming is impressive. You can see where the money is. Some jokes are really funny but others are very tacky and they get me out of the film mentally _ for example, when Dany Brillant is singing. The last ten minutes are absolutely appaling. It is so bad.

3. Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Laurent Tirard had the wish to make a funny movies but the filming is so bad. Tirard is probably a good director but not for comedies. The jokes are on the paper but not on the screen. Tirard is trying too hard to be Chabat. The humor is very dated. Edouard Baer is a good cast, better than Clavier in my opinion. Other actors are good in the film : Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchni (he is not Alain Delon but he makes a very good job). Gérard Depardieu is fascinating. He does not play the role of Obelix, he is Obelix. He is dumb and yet touching. Vincent Lacoste is very good in the role of the rebellious teenager.

4. Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
Claude Zidi does not even try to make you laugh. The film is very slow to start. The last 40 minutes is when the action really begins. Clavier is a very Jacquasse kind of Asterix. Daniel Prévost is a very good cast in the role of Prolix. The village is also very well made.

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1. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Extremely funny, and manages to be faithful enough to the original comic while introducing new content and works well as a movie. The cast and the acting is the best here. Not perfect film, but I think the best live action Asterix could be and I enjoyed it very much. The comic is also among my favorites of Asterix comics and it helped as well.

2. Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
I liked a diffent tone than what Mission Cleopatra has, it is more serious and has darker tone than the rest. Cleopatra could be too campy sometimes, and usually I really hate campy but it works pretty well on that film. This film was however not as memorable and not funny enough, and the plot is not as interesting. I would have also liked the movie to be based more on some comic, I do not know it just did not feel as Asterix to me.

3. Asterix at the Olympic Games
I should maybe watch this again, but I do not particularly wish to. I remember barely any of it, I just remember hating it when it came out. I remember only some very silly parts of the games, and that it had many very unfunny jokes and cameos and that it felt very campy and childish.


I have not seen Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

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Mission Cleopatra is probably the only one that could be considered a good movie. God Save Britannia was ok I thought, but the only jokes that worked were taken right out of the comic books. The jokes that did not work were new jokes. I don't think it's a coincidence. René Goscinny was a genius. I did not see the Olympic Games movie. The first movie was quite boring. Roberto Begnini was horribly miscast. Is that guy supposed to be funny?

I watched all movies in their original FR version. I suggest you do too if you haven't and you understand French. Apparently Mission Cleopatra has been heavily edited.

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