Directors René Goscinny, Henri Gruel & Albert Uderzo
Starring Roger Carel & Jacques Morel (original)
Starring Seán Barrett & Michael Kilgarriff (English Dub)
Rated G
Score 6/6

A group of indomitable Gauls are challenged by Roman Emperor Julius Caesar to accomplish twelve impossible tasks.

Glorious, Stupid and selfaware, is probably the esaiest way to describe what it is like to watch The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. Over the years of reviewing movies for the The Movie Boards i have developed a fondness for the live-action Asterix and Obelix movies and only the past couple of years have started looking at the cartoons and I will admit for those of you who might be wondering yes I did read these comics that these movies are based on when I was younger and prettier. For those of you who are interested the movie was adapted from the 1976 book Asterix Conquers Rome.
Even though the animation might come off as being a little dated, there is a lot to love such as the opening with the narrator with the use of a couple rather adorable fourth wall breaks  which sets the ‘anything can go’ attitude of the movie which the movie admits to by the banquet at the end of the movie. I found that the cave of the beast partly reminded me of the Australian animated movie released in 1977 Dot and the Kangaroo. After watching The Twelve Tasks and Asterix and the Vikings I preferred the dub talents of Seán Barrett & Michael Kilgarriff as Asterix and Obelix over the talents of Paul Giamatti and Brad Garrett. Both Giamatti’s and Garrett’s didn’t seem to suit the role.