I can understand the need for script writers, directors and all that ilk to establish themselves as creative. Under that light I can also understand the concept of adaptation, up to a point. However, I cannot stress how mind bogglingly horrifying is the latest bastardization (sorry, movie adaptation) of Asterix and his buddies.
In the original, the Gauls go to the games to spite Caesar, a bunch of good natured pranksters wanting to defy Caesar by showing him they are at least as good as the Romans.
In THIS awful mess they go to the games to dispute the hand in marriage of a beautiful princess, with whom a weak, feeble minded Gaul has become infatuated. I mean... COME ON! The state of mind of the characters in Obelix novels is as important as the plot. And this guys screwed that up, completely.
And that was not all...
I mean... making jokes a bit more up to date... yeah, thats fine up to a point.
Taking out of the movie in its entirety a good amount of the jokes from the book... that is a no,no in MY book. They completely ruined the movie experience for me.
Caesar's narcissism might have been funny up to the... 10th time a joke was made based on it... but for crying out loud, after the 30th, I was yawning every single time they tried to pull another one off.
And.. BRUTUS competing and seeming like a moron? thats a kick in the balls of the original history.
The actor that plays Asterix his awful, Gerard Depardieu is a superb actor, but not even he can make an omelet with no eggs... And eggs was what he was not given, with such awful script/actors.
I will be stopping now, because I mostly have bad things to say about this movie. But remember this: If you go to the movies expecting to see the story of "Asterix at the Olympic Games", even if adapted, you will find a different story, a different plot, with bad acting. FOr me, it was deceitful publicity. And to those who say it is an adaptation and we should let it pass as such, I say that there are limits to where an adaptation ends and a shameless bastardization begins. The princess was beautiful and fresh as a clear morning though.
In the original, the Gauls go to the games to spite Caesar, a bunch of good natured pranksters wanting to defy Caesar by showing him they are at least as good as the Romans.
In THIS awful mess they go to the games to dispute the hand in marriage of a beautiful princess, with whom a weak, feeble minded Gaul has become infatuated. I mean... COME ON! The state of mind of the characters in Obelix novels is as important as the plot. And this guys screwed that up, completely.
And that was not all...
I mean... making jokes a bit more up to date... yeah, thats fine up to a point.
Taking out of the movie in its entirety a good amount of the jokes from the book... that is a no,no in MY book. They completely ruined the movie experience for me.
Caesar's narcissism might have been funny up to the... 10th time a joke was made based on it... but for crying out loud, after the 30th, I was yawning every single time they tried to pull another one off.
And.. BRUTUS competing and seeming like a moron? thats a kick in the balls of the original history.
The actor that plays Asterix his awful, Gerard Depardieu is a superb actor, but not even he can make an omelet with no eggs... And eggs was what he was not given, with such awful script/actors.
I will be stopping now, because I mostly have bad things to say about this movie. But remember this: If you go to the movies expecting to see the story of "Asterix at the Olympic Games", even if adapted, you will find a different story, a different plot, with bad acting. FOr me, it was deceitful publicity. And to those who say it is an adaptation and we should let it pass as such, I say that there are limits to where an adaptation ends and a shameless bastardization begins. The princess was beautiful and fresh as a clear morning though.