Author: DVD

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 02-07-2008

Details: Amazon.ca By Toutatis! Magic potion or not, Alain Chabat signs here a version more removed, more lit and more tonic than the first Asterix directed by Claude Zidi. After Didier, the ex-Nul stands out as a clever and efficient director. To succeed in his bet of 55 million euros – the biggest budget in French cinema, and second place at the box office for French films, with 14.5 million admissions – he returned to the sources of the albums by Goscinny and Uderzo, by grafting his quirky and wacky universe. Anachronisms, puns, winks abound: from the Matrix to the Grand Pardon, via Cyrano or Claude François, a festival...Ju-bi-la-toire! ! To which is added an avalanche of irresistible gags, spicy dialogues that play with flavor on the past-present discrepancy – "Itineris is right: must not be the SFR" –, sumptuous sets and costumes designed by the creator of Ranxerox, Tanino Liberatore. In short, the successful transplant of Canal humor onto traditional French comedy, in a schoolboy spirit that is reminiscent of that which irrigates the hilarious Is there a pilot on the plane?. Around Clavier and Depardieu – the only survivors of the first opus – a Roman legion of actors, each more delectable than the other: Monica Belluci, Gérard Darmon as an anthology villain, Dieudonné, Claude Rich, Isabelle Nanty, Alain Chabat, Mathieu Kassovitz , and even Pierre Tchernia! ! And then there are the cases of Jamel and Édouard Baer: absolutely crazy, they dominate the interpretation with their chat and their slaughter. To be reviewed several times, as one constantly rereads the original comics. --Sylvain Lefort

UPC: 065935818502

EAN: 0065935818502

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: Used