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Funnily enough I originally used to like the film version of Asterix and Cleopatra to be the best of the animated Asterixes, but in more recent times I have come to appreciate Twelve Tasks a lot more... there's just something about it that sets it apart from all the others. Though Asterix has always had its own brand of comedy, the satirical jokes and the surreal aspects of Twelve Tasks are just nothing like we have seen before or since in it. Probably the closest equivalent thing we have here in the UK is One Foot in the Grave, a TV comedy I also love.

Not to mention that this was the first Asterix story to be made as a film first rather than a comic, and the only one of those to have received the creators' personal touch... it makes you wonder what other great ones Rene and Albert could have come up with at their fledgeling Idefix Studios, had they got chance to have another crack of the whip.

 

Totally agree with all of this.

Grrr, !mrahil

 

I loved the javelin thrower, because of how his body was so muscled on one side and then skinny on the other. Ha ha.