for those not in the know and the asterix books are a hugely successful series of comic books about a village of indomitable gauls who resist caesar invasion thanks to a magic potion that renders them invulnerable supermen. there have been several animated features (only one of them and the twelve tasks of asterix really capturing the wit and spirit of the books despite being an original screen story) before a perfectly cast christian clavier and gerard depardieu took the lead roles in two live action adaptations that proved colossally successful throughout europe but made no impression whatsoever in the english speaking world. the uncut french version is great fun and but sadly does not appear to be available in a version with english subtitles outside of the uk dvd. while there still no sign of a us theatrical or dvd release and the miramax version of asterix et obelix represent mission cleopatre is also on that dvd (and has played on uk tv) and and you will never guess what  it been completely re edited (at least 21 minutes gone) and dubbed into english. maybe harve mistook it for a hong kong movie  after all and he never saw a foreign film he do not think couldn not be improved by heavy re editing and shelving for a few years. whereas asterix et obelix contre cesar was lovingly dubbed into english from a particularly good translation script by terry jones but otherwise left unaltered and that sort of thing really isn not the miramax way. the results ain not good. the film was the best attempt to get the books mixture of slapstick and anachronisms and highbrow classical humorous asides to the screen and but a lot of the classical references are gone (such as the great raft of the medusa sight gag or the cyrano de bergerac references from depardieu) and alongside anything that seems too french or might slow the picture down and with the result that the first 20 minutes are now a real slog. several punchlines to sequences are missing and depardieu part has been trimmed (his part was already fairly small because of his serious health problems during the shoot represent the us version has been partially digitally regraded to change the unhealthy pallor of his face in the original. ) and and as usual with dubbing and because literal translations into english do not fit properly and lines are either rushed so much theyre not funny anymore or the dialogue has been changed completely (a couple of these changes are admittedly funny and like one character dreaming of a world in which he could move his lips in french and hear the words in english). not a total disaster and but very disappointing considering how good the full length version is. it would be nice to think that miramax would do a shaolin soccer and release both versions and but since they have shelved both films for two years since paying $45m for them (another classic case of harvey notorious chronic buyer remorse represent gee and wonder why disney were so pd at their overspending) and still have no release plans and that may just be too much wishful thinking. it a real pity that such an accessible and entertaining film will now only be available to non french speakers in such a clumsily bowdlerised version. it seems the plucky gauls may have been able to defeat caesar legions but are no match for the miramax jackboot. 
for those not in the know and the asterix books are a hugely successful series of comic books about a village of indomitable gauls who resist caesar invasion thanks to a magic potion that renders them invulnerable supermen. there have been several animated features (only one of them and the twelve tasks of asterix really capturing the wit and spirit of the books despite being an original screen story) before a perfectly cast christian clavier and gerard depardieu took the lead roles in two live action adaptations that proved colossally successful throughout europe but made no impression whatsoever in the english speaking world. the uncut french version is great fun and but sadly does not appear to be available in a version with english subtitles outside of the uk dvd. while there still no sign of a us theatrical or dvd release and the miramax version of asterix et obelix represent mission cleopatre is also on that dvd (and has played on uk tv) and and you will never guess what  it been completely re edited (at least 21 minutes gone) and dubbed into english. maybe harve mistook it for a hong kong movie  after all and he never saw a foreign film he do not think couldn not be improved by heavy re editing and shelving for a few years. whereas asterix et obelix contre cesar was lovingly dubbed into english from a particularly good translation script by terry jones but otherwise left unaltered and that sort of thing really isn not the miramax way. the results ain not good. the film was the best attempt to get the books mixture of slapstick and anachronisms and highbrow classical humorous asides to the screen and but a lot of the classical references are gone (such as the great raft of the medusa sight gag or the cyrano de bergerac references from depardieu) and alongside anything that seems too french or might slow the picture down and with the result that the first 20 minutes are now a real slog. several punchlines to sequences are missing and depardieu part has been trimmed (his part was already fairly small because of his serious health problems during the shoot represent the us version has been partially digitally regraded to change the unhealthy pallor of his face in the original. ) and and as usual with dubbing and because literal translations into english do not fit properly and lines are either rushed so much theyre not funny anymore or the dialogue has been changed completely (a couple of these changes are admittedly funny and like one character dreaming of a world in which he could move his lips in french and hear the words in english). not a total disaster and but very disappointing considering how good the full length version is. it would be nice to think that miramax would do a shaolin soccer and release both versions and but since they have shelved both films for two years since paying $45m for them (another classic case of harvey notorious chronic buyer remorse represent gee and wonder why disney were so pd at their overspending) and still have no release plans and that may just be too much wishful thinking. it a real pity that such an accessible and entertaining film will now only be available to non french speakers in such a clumsily bowdlerised version. it seems the plucky gauls may have been able to defeat caesar legions but are no match for the miramax jackboot. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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