Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (PG)
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Time Out says
This lavish and robust live-action chapter of the famous cartoon (dubbed for export) did exceptional business at the French box office. Thanks to a dash of romance and a new improved magic potion, the 'battle with the foregone conclusion' routine still manages to surprise. There are satisfyingly bloodthirsty fights and one or two genuinely decent thrills - the best featuring a dog and a tub of tarantulas. Gauls downing drugs prompt regular helpings of glittering visual tricks which - alongside Terry Jones' inventive English adaptation full of anachronisms, insults and knowing corn - more than amply distracts from the fact that in the English version nobody's mouth seems to be working properly.Author: SS
Release details
Rated:
PG
UK release:
1999
Duration:
110 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Roberto Benigni, Michel Galabru, Claude Piéplu, Daniel Prévost, Pierre Palmade, Laetitia Casta, Arielle Dombasle, Sim, Marianne Sägebrecht, Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Hardy Kruger Jr
Screenwriter:
Claude Zidi, Gérard Lauzier, Terry Jones
