The director is probably a fan of the original BD, but knowledge of the comics can not serve for capability to direct. The film is not a film, it is a collection of jokes that does not stick together in the slightest. I do not say I got all the jokes right but I claim to have understood a vast majority as I have been to France and I had feedback from real Frenchmen watching the film with me. It can be argued over whether the jokes are funny or not, I liked, say, a quarter of them but when 40 minutes are behind you and you still wait for the film to start and are bored to death, it is not right. What is more, the director of photography made the film all confusing and some of the scenes get really boring as you are caught in the flying views showing nothing. It looks like everything in the film should support jokes but those are mainly just about popular culture, about nothing that can be laughed at 4 years after making the film. It is just Hollywood, nothing more, maybe just less. One good thing is the effects, they make, along with some word puns, for the really funny moments of the film. And last to the music - it is boring, saying nothing, there is no gripping theme. Overall, the film is a complete miss, everything otherwise possible to praise is downgraded by the director who could not put together a film. He only composed the parts in a wrong way.
Review of Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
