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What is this movie about?

posted 17 years ago by brianthehulk
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I vaugely remember watching an Asterix cartoon about 25 years ago on either a canadian station or , hell i dont know. THis character never did catch on here in the US did it?

[–] invincible1958 17 years ago

It's a french comic and it is most popular in France and in Germany.

from wikipedia:

"The Asterix series is one of the most popular French comics in the world, and familiar to people of all ages in most European countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and parts of South America, Africa and Asia particularly, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, South Africa, Kenya, Philippines, Singapore, India and Indonesia. Asterix is less well known in the United States and Japan."

So it's just the US and Japan where these comics are not known. As far as I know 'Asterix' is the most succesful comic series of all time in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

[–] black-Shark 17 years ago

Yeah here in Germany it's very popular. When I was a child I watched all the caartoons and my mother read all the comics when she was a child.

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[–] geoh777 17 years ago

The French in Action series (for learning French) by on DVD by Pierre Capretz has frequent (enough) references to Asterix. To me, it's plain to see why he/it is not popular in the US. Must resonate with the Europeans, though.

[–] etimago 17 years ago

A village of strong-willed people constantly resisting invasion from a mighty global army... If it were in modern times they'd be called terrorists and Julius W. Caesar would have bombed the crap out of them :D

[–] loddar 17 years ago

ROFLMAO....

[–] chryme 17 years ago

It's also very popular here in England. I still occasionally read my Asterix books that I've had for 15 years.

[–] krasnegar 16 years ago

Used to be popular among people in the US who actually understood and appreciated comics beyond the "dumb stuff for kids and semi-literates", "Superheroes poundng on each other" and/or "titties and tease" level.

But that was when we got the British translations, which actually managed to get in as much *extremely* witty wordplay as the French originals.

A few years ago the titles i was seeing in this country began being translated by USAians who didn't have the least clue how to make them funny.

Oh well.

Twenty or thirty years ago i used to dream of "Asterix" films starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. (I could just hear Spencer's English voice double growling "These Romans are crazy!") Never happened.

On the other hand, Hill has made a series of productions (for teevee, i think) based on "Asterix" co-creator Goscinny's Western comic, "Lucky Luke", which are not as bad as they could have been...