ASTERIX THE MANSIONS OF THE GODS
CAST: Roger Carel, Guillaume Briat, lionnel Astier, Serge Papagalli and Florence Foresti
RATED: 7/10
Those ones from Gaul have all the magic, and the potion, and the verve, and the nerve and the bumbling simplicity that takes your heart. Unless, of course, you are Roman, more precisely, Julius Caesar.
If you are Caesar or any of his cronies, you would be employing all your life and strength to somehow bring down a small, angelic village in the middle of nowhere merely to breathe a sigh of relief.
For, these superstars from Gaul are a constant threat to the Romans even though they would care two hoots for anything outside the boundaries of their forest which they do not want disturbed.
We have grown on Asterix comics and many generations have similarly been with Obelix, Cacophonix and Dogmatix, not to mention Druid and Asterix himself, enjoying their antics much like Tintin, Haddox and all the blistering barnacles that come alongside.
This film, animated to perfection and given a lot of strength to detailing, colour and landscape, is as cute as it can get with Asterix and Co trying to fight Caesar’s urbanisation of their forest and him having managed to infect the humble villagers with avarise, vanity and ambition, just to name a few of the very Roman vices.
But there’s Obelix, the boars and the menhirs are all there to give you a rollicking times. So do not miss.