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[KyoZz]

Any fan here? A new adaptation is coming in just a few days by the legendary Alain Chabat!

In the midst of the first millennium, Rome is desperate to conquer the last independent village in Gaul (the home of Astérix and Obélix).
The secret to the Gauls' battle superiority is a magic potion, but when the potion master is struck by amnesia, the villagers are left to their own devices against the might of the Romans...

Adapted from the seventh album in René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's iconic French-language comic series.

Trailer:



I'm hyped!

 

[Panajev2001a]

Any fan here? A new adaptation is coming in just a few days by the legendary Alain Chabat!

In the midst of the first millennium, Rome is desperate to conquer the last independent village in Gaul (the home of Astérix and Obélix).
The secret to the Gauls' battle superiority is a magic potion, but when the potion master is struck by amnesia, the villagers are left to their own devices against the might of the Romans...

Adapted from the seventh album in René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's iconic French-language comic series.

Trailer:



I'm hyped!

Very hyped!!!

 

[yet_another_alt]

Didn't know about one coming up. That's definitely something to look forward to.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Why this shit artstyle? What was wrong with the old 2D ones?

 

[Alx]

Why this shit artstyle? What was wrong with the old 2D ones?

Chabat said in an interview that they considered 2D animation, but they wanted to produce the whole movie in France, where there are many highly talented 3D animation studios, but not enough capacity for 2D on a project of that scale, so 2D would have to be outsourced.
I'm confident in the outcome, Chabat is dedicated to his art and incredibly funny. Also in that interview he showed how he was concerned about the rendering of the final outcome (with references like adding "printing glitches" that appeared on the early editions of the comics). For the record he took some global inspiration from "Into the Spider-Verse", especially in how you could blur the lines between 2D and 3D.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Chabat said in an interview that they considered 2D animation, but they wanted to produce the whole movie in France, where there are many highly talented 3D animation studios, but not enough capacity for 2D on a project of that scale, so 2D would have to be outsourced.
I'm confident in the outcome, Chabat is dedicated to his art and incredibly funny. Also in that interview he showed how he was concerned about the rendering of the final outcome (with references like adding "printing glitches" that appeared on the early editions of the comics). For the record he took some global inspiration for "Into the Spider-Verse", especially in how you could blur the lines between 2D and 3D.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Looks good to me.

 

[Stitch]

The last 2 movies had a similar artstyle and they were really good

 

[AJUMP23]

Fun little films.

 

[KyoZz]

Why this shit artstyle? What was wrong with the old 2D ones?

Uh?? Shit artstyle really? It's Asterix and Obélix it will never be photorealistic. Maybe you don't like but calling it shit is a bit extreme imo.

 

[Great Auk]

I never saw these characters in the US as a child but when I go to Greece every other summer to visit my family my cousins showed me these comics. They were translated to Greek of course but since I was able to read/write/speak Greek I was able to enjoy them. They were still funny even if not in the original French.

Fun fact even today the word for France in Greek is Γαλλία (pronounced Gallia, the Greek name for Gaul) just like Asterix and Obelix's people and land were referred to back in the day haha.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

In the midst of the first millennium

That's a bit vague.

This could be very good. For some reason, just like with Peanuts, I was never crazy about the Asterix cartoons, while I love the comics.
Asterix was extremely heavy on stereotypes though, so I hope the humour hasn't been neutered for modern audiences. Of course, the stereotypes were some of the best bits about the comic. The stories where Asterix met the British and the Corsicans are absolutely hilarious.

 

[Alx]

Uh?? Shit artstyle really? It's Asterix and Obélix it will never be photorealistic. Maybe you don't like but calling it shit is a bit extreme imo.

To be fair most of us grew up watching the « Astérix & Cleopatra » or « 12 tasks of Astérix » animated movies that had perfect 2D translation of the comics style (the animation itself aged a bit but is still quite good)

 

[KyoZz]

To be fair most of us grew up watching the « Astérix & Cleopatra » or « 12 tasks of Astérix » animated movies that had perfect 2D translation of the comics style (the animation itself aged a bit but is still quite good)

I'm French so you can imagine I grew up watching them too (not to mention that my mother is a big fan and owns every album up to the most recent one). Every year during Christmas they show a few of the animated movies on TV, they aged for sure but I still love it. It's part of my childhood.

But calling this "shit"? Nah I disagree. It's different for sure and some may not like it but come on... Plus it's Alain Chabat so I'm pretty sure it's gonna be really good.

 

[MMaRsu]

By osiris and osaris! Great stuff. Love Asterix and Obelix! And the Netflix pun was good.

 

[IDKFA]

It's not the Roman film I wanted, but I'll take it.

 

[MMaRsu]

Wow I thought this was a movie, but its 5 episodes of 30 minutes!! LETSGOOOOOOOOOO



Its also out, the first episode is awesome and I wont spoil it

 

[Dazraell]

Well, I've watched an entire thing. It was pretty mid tbh. Not really my favorite, and not really the worst one either. There were some good moments I liked, had a few laughs and was surprised about the direction they decided to take, but I don't feel like I'm gonna ever bother rewatching it which is a thing I tend do with some of the older Asterix media

 

[Baemono]

I don't understand why this one, which already got its movie in the late '80s

 

[Dazraell]

I don't understand why this one, which already got its movie in the late '80s

That movie from 80s shares the same title but was primarily based on a plot of a completely different comic (Soothsayer). The only thing it shared with The Big Fight was a single story beat, rest was based on that other comic. So while that one story beat will be familiar, majority of the story can be considered as something that wasn't adapted before and is pretty much different

 

[Alx]

I enjoyed it. I expected more crazy humor from Chabat, but the result was closer to the style of the comics albums. First episode was a bit slow and heavy in exposition, last episode was more action-oriented and less Asterix-y (but actually riveting). And the middle episodes were quite good with very good jokes, like the kind you would have expected from Goscinny if he had written it in our times.
The 3D rendering wasn't an issue, especially with some tricks that made the eyes appear more 2D.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I grew up reading these comics, hope this movie turns out good

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

"Five episodes" with each having 10 minutes of credits, leaving about 25 minutes of actual show. All they did was cut up a movie into 5 chunks for this. Otherwise apart from that nonsense its good.

 

[Baemono]

That movie from 80s shares the same title but was primarily based on a plot of a completely different comic (Soothsayer). The only thing it shared with The Big Fight was a single story beat, rest was based on that other comic. So while that one story beat will be familiar, majority of the story can be considered as something that wasn't adapted before and is pretty much different

Yeah I know, the big fight is my favourite of all the Asterix books/comics, and I know they only used the amnesia part.

But I am still surprised they went with this one and not any other that never got an adaptation

 

[Dazrael]

The Big Fight seems to be a favourite to adapt, it's been made before.

I'm only 3 episodes in and I'm not sure I like it. The basic story is there but I don't like the use of contemporary music, it really throws out any sense of setting. It's meant to be set in Roman times and yet I'm hearing Boombastic by Shaggy? It also doesn't have the clever humour of Goscinny's writing, so maybe I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Asterix.