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Asterix and the Vikings

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A strong warrior (Roger Carel) and his best friend (Jacques Frantz) must make a man out of a village chief's nephew (Lorànt Deutsch).

Critics Reviews

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Lisa Nesselson Variety 04/11/2006
Enjoyably peppy if not particularly memorable. Go to Full Review
Nikhat Kazmi The Times of India 02/28/2020
Neat fun, specially for Asterix fans. Go to Full Review
Beatriz Maldivia Espinof 02/12/2020
The movie is very entertaining. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Andrea Beach Common Sense Media 04/30/2019
3/5
Animated French tale has cartoon violence, some laughs. Go to Full Review
Matthew Turner ViewLondon 01/18/2007
3/5
Paul Giamatti is perfectly cast as Asterix ... and the film delivers as much Roman-bashing, boar-chasing and pirate-sinking as you could possibly hope for from an Asterix film. Go to Full Review
Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena 09/25/2006
4/5
Na maior parte do tempo, consegue recriar o humor cnico, crtico e repleto de anacronismos de Uderzo e Goscinny. Mas ateno: a dublagem em portugus to ruim que consegue anular tudo isso; portanto, assista verso norte-americana ou, melhor ainda, Go to Full Review
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Johan J Jul 12 The characters looks like the ones in the comic, but unfortunately the similarities ends there, as they changed the personalities of the characters in this bad fan fiction. See more 03/26/2021 La animación es muy buena y el humor es muy absurdo; la trama pudo haber sido mejor, pero es disfrutable. See more 06/14/2019 Because when I think of Asterix, I think teen romance! Look, I don't mind romance and a majority of Asterix movies released after the Big Fight fell into that trap but still, this barely feels like an Asterix movie. It doesn't help that Abba, whose personality is essentially "a poor man's Disney Princess" was a completely original character. And it seems to me that Asterix has less dialogue in comparison to Obelix and Justforkix. This came out in 2006 and by this time, what few 2D animated movies were still being made were wise enough to realize that the Disney formula just doesn't make sense anymore, even if Albert Uderzo was reluctant at the time to turn his and Goscinny's creations into Pixar characters. The script is also a bit too modern for this old-fashioned historical comedy. They have a training montage with the cheapest cover of Eye of the Tiger they could get the rights to and a quirky animal sidekick (also not in the original comic book) whose name is literally SMS. A shame this movie wasn't as good as it could have been because the animation is gorgeous, the movie is intermittently funny, the Gauls do remain faithful to their comic book counterparts and the dubbing is really well done. I know I expressed my frustrations in the past with the Gauls having American accents preferring the voices from Twelve Tasks and the XXL games (Olympic Games, included due to having the same developers and game engine) but here it's very easy to forget that this was done by French animators, not a big Hollywood animation studio, with the voices really fitting the characters and nary a frame of animation where the lip movement doesn't match up with the English script. You'd think the voice acting would be terrible, since more famous actors were involved here in another misguided attempt to boost Asterix's U.S. appeal but even though I know I'm hearing Paul Giamatti and Brad Garrett's voices, they really match with the designs. While the American dub of the Big Fight and the first Asterix movie back in 1967 are still the animated Asterix movies that really rubbed me the wrong way, Asterix and the Vikings still wasn't as good as it could have been in spite of the fact that effort really was put into it. See more 01/10/2019 La calidad de su dibujos es muy lograda a la de las viñetas muy fiel a sus diseños originales a la vez que la trama, un personaje que evoluciona desde el principio hasta el final con una historia de amor con la que se puede estar identificado y ver que el miedo no te da alas sino el amor. See more 09/12/2018 Not the best one, lacks that feeling, a little soul.. See more 08/22/2016 They managed to transform one of the most original, witty and funny european comic characters in a bland, stereotyped, hollywood-like animated comedy for idiots. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A strong warrior (Roger Carel) and his best friend (Jacques Frantz) must make a man out of a village chief's nephew (Lorànt Deutsch).
Director
Stefan Fjeldmark, Jesper Moller
Producer
Thomas Valentin
Screenwriter
Jean-Luc Goossens
Production Co
M6 Films Production
Genre
Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Animation
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 18, 2018
Runtime
1h 19m
Sound Mix
Dolby