Director Ray Goossens
Starring Roger Carel & Jacques Morel
Rated G
Score 6/6

Gaul invaded! Asterix must save the Druid Getafix from the Romans.

I’m sure there are more then a few of you out there who have read an Asterix comic book. Now it has been more then a few years since I have last watched an animated Asterix adventure (I have vague memories of watching the animated movie  Asterix in Britain in the cinema), but it in the meantime I have developed a fondness for the live-action Asterix adventures that have been made featuring as Gérard Depardieu as Obelix and with Asterix being portrayed by Christian Clavier, Clovis Cornillac for the third film and by Edouard Baer for the fourth film (and apparently there will be new actors for both Asterix and Obelix for the upcoming fifth movie).
Asterix the Gaul is not big and loud (or dark) like the animated comic book movies from either Marvel or DC. The best way that I can describe the movie is as ‘charming’ in the same way that an idolised vision of Saturday Mornings are, because Asterix the Gaul had a serious Saturday Morning Cartoon vibe to it. This is probably because the movie was initially released in France in December of 1967. I loved the scene with the strawberries. My biggest complaint about the movie is that in the English version of the film (the version I watched), many of the characters’ names are inconsistent with their names in the books. Apparently, the film was being dubbed into English before the books were translated into English. That being said of the character name changes that did occur I felt that ‘Stopthemusix’ was a fitting name for the bard Cacofonix.