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  • Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alain Delon, Gerard Depardieu, Stephane Rousseau
  • Directors: Frederic Forestier
  • Format: PAL
  • Language French, Portuguese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Aug 2008
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0019ZN27S
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,778 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Alafolix (Stephane Rousseau, THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS) is a friend of Asterix (Clovis Cornillac, EDEN LOG) and Obelix (Gerard Depardieu, GREEN CARD) who has fallen deeply in love with the Greek Princess Irina (supermodel Vanessa Hessler). In order to win her hand in marriage, Alafolix goes to Greece to compete in the Olympic Games. However, magic potions have been banned at the Olympics and Alafolix, Asterix, and Obelix will have to use all their wits in order to defeat Cesar's conniving son Brutus (Benoit Poelvoode, MAN BITES DOG).
This loose adaptation of the classic 1960s comic book ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES features fine performances from a talented cast. The family-friendly film's $100 million-plus budget has been spent on making a visually spectacular version of Ancient Greece for Gaulish duo Asterix and Obelix to run around in, creating chaos for their Roman enemies.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and Funny, 12 Sep 2008
By S. Denton "Dark Horse" (Le Jardin d'Angleterre) - See all my reviews
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Just to correct a common misconception: THIS FILM WAS NOT A CINEMATIC FLOP! It topped the box office in most european countries including France, even beating competition from Harry Potter in Greece.

Yes this movie was panned by a lot of critics, but expectations were so incredibly high that it's no surprise it didn't manage to meet them. Firstly it was following the hugely entertaining, intelligent and successful 'Mission Cleopatra'. Secondly it was the most expensive French pic ever (with a reported budget of $115 million).

Ignoring all that and just taking the film on its own merits, I found it thoroughly entertaining and funny (at least when watched in French). It was certainly far better than the most recent animated attempt 'Asterix et les Vikings'.

Ok it doesn't deserve five stars (I gave it that to balance the silly one-star review below), but I would be comfortable giving it four. I'm glad I purchased it and I will watch it again.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly spectacular but not very good, 16 Jun 2009
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Despite its reputation, Asterix at the Olympic Games isn't unwatchably bad, it's simply not good. The most expensive European film to date, with a budget around the $100m mark, no expense has been spared bringing Goscinny and Uderzo's heroic Gauls from the comicbook pages to the live-action screen in colossal fashion, but sadly most of the jokes have. While the film wallows in incredible spectacle and special effects, that's really all it ever has to offer. Having got it so right with the previous live-action entry Mission Cleopatre, it's sad to see this go so bland and outstay its welcome so quickly. Co-directed by Claude Berri's son, Thomas Langmann, who seems intent on proving that talent is not genetic, there's none of the wit or imagination of the original comic books here. Not only does it not attempt to play as much to the adults with sly classical allusions, it doesn't give the smaller children that much to make them laugh either. With no sympathetic characters, or even a plot to speak of, there's nothing to anchor the empty spectacle.

It's no wonder that Christian Clavier didn't come back for a third time as the diminutive hero - Asterix and Obelix are barely in the movie, and when they are they have nothing to do but occasionally stand on the sidelines and watch the other actors while the overlong epilogue is largely devoted to some unfunny business with a cameoing Jamel Debbouze that only serves to remind you how much funnier the last film was. Clovis Cornillac does his best as Asterix, but with absolutely nothing to work with he's reduced to simply striking poses from the comic books - Depardieu at least gets a scene where he gets to feed suitors human and canine with the words to woo Cyrano style. It's not funny, but at least it gives him one scene where he actually does something.

Indeed, it's a mystery why the film wasn't called Brutus and Cesar at the Olympics instead - it's centred around Brutus and his attempts to kill his stepdad so much that it's surprising Benoit Poelvoorde didn't get top billing (something the film's teaser trailer openly acknowledged). Hell, even Alain 'can't do comedy' Delon probably has more screen time than Cornillac: too much, at times. Introduced with Ennio Morricone's theme music from The Sicilian Clan and making jokes about Rocco and his Brothers and not ageing but maturing, whether the at-least-30-years-too-old-for-the-part star is trying to show us that he's not above joking about himself or simply trying to remind us that he has made some good films in the past is hard to tell, especially since Delon's comic delivery is way up there with Charlton Heston's cold dead attempts to prove he had a sense of humor as well.

With no fish fights, no pirates, barely three minutes spent in the village and, perhaps most surprising of all considering all the opportunities, not even a single "Et tu, Brute?", it's a shame that this would be the last film for Jean-Pierre Cassel, unrecognisable here as the druid Getafix/Panoramix. Like most of the cast he never gets a chance to make an impression. He's just there, as if briefly showing the character every 15-20 minutes before ignoring him again was enough, a fate that befalls all of the indomitable Gauls. Instead, we get endless botched assassination attempts, a Michael Curtiz joke ("Bring on the empty horses") in a chariot race almost as long but not half as entertaining as the one in Ben-Hur, a few sporting cameos (most notably Michael Schumacher as a charioteer and Zinedine Zidane kicking a ball around for a minute or so), and a lot of special effects until the film just peters out.

The UK PAL DVD offers the original French soundtrack and an atrocious English dub, as well as a couple of trailers.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best fun for ages, 28 Sep 2008
Not only is this a hilarious film, it's clever. Anyone who didn't like it probably didn't get the insider jokes e.g. Elixire Pour Olympiques, commonly known as EPO; the streamlined red chariot driven by Michael Schaumacher; the invention of the air-filled ball that you can kick into a fish net ("That idea will never catch on.") and a very insider joke for Spanish audiences - the princess's headgear was based on that of La Dama de Elche (a famous ancient statue.) I rented the film, watched it twice, and now I'm going to buy it. (The soundtrack in Spanish was actually funnier than the French one.)
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1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst French films ever!
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