It must be said that this ancient pirate crew ends up «mergitur» more often than «fluctuat», as Pegleg would say (one of the Pirate lookout's brothers-in-arms, famous for his wooden leg and his Latin quotations), and enjoys as much misfortune as it does fortune! In spite of everything, in between shipwrecks, the pirate lookout is entitled to his 15 minutes of fame: in the album Asterix and Obelix All at Sea, he reveals his percussion talents to a dumbfounded audience when, in order to quicken the pace of the rowers, judged idle by chief Redbeard, he takes his place before the drums and becomes the drummer he always dreamed of being.Well, time for part 2/3 of the Asterix and Obelix live action movie trilogy. This time 98% of the action takes place in Egypt. Caesar (Alain Chabat) and Cleopatra( Monica Belllucci), after arguing for a while, make a bet. Cleopatra builds a palace for Caesar in 3 months and he admits that the Egyptians are the supreme people. Simple! She assigns Numerobis (Jamel Debbouze), a young and feeble architect to take care of the palace. Powerless and running out of time, he decides to find the legendary gaulls who have the magic potion. Well, no more original soundtracks, if not counting the egyptian theme. And it’s a shame, because the one from the first part was quite nice. Remember the melancholic and wise Panoramix? Well, now he’s constantly smiling like a junkie, with nothing too intelligent to say.Īsterix and Obelix are still played by Depardeu and Clavier, but Panoramix and Caesar are played by diferrent actors. Caesar was a mighty emperor, but here he is a prick. The movie has some stupid moments and doesn’t have the serious tone that the first part had.īut one the other hand, that’s a good thing. I mean, it tries a diferrent approach, Mission Cleopatra is more like the cartoon series. That means that it’s funnier than the first one, with more French humour, more hilarious remarks and some parody. The effects are better, I have to say that. And, unlike the first movie, here Asterix, Obelix, Panoramix, Numerobis and Idefix are facing all sorts of enemies. The main villain is Amonbofis, the queen’s architect, who envies Numerobis.
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