Originally i saw it soon after release, i expected to love the new Asterix entry but i was disappointed. The writing is cringy old-people garbage and the main character is ugly.
So we watched it with the original sound and russian subtitles.
This is the last 2D Asterix film, released twelve years after the previous one. And the next one came out only eight more year later with 3D CGI animation.
Well, i can admit that as far as 2D animation goes, this often looks really good. But the rest is still bad.
The main story is a double cringe How Do You Do Fellow Kids these days. It came out in 2006, but it thinks that SMS, vegetarians, scratching, and disco music are still the most relevant phenomenons with teens (lets pretend of at least 18 years old in this film). It plays boomers' pop music as if it's new and hip, literal Eye of the Tiger (1982) (but not electronics), Get Down On It (1981), and Super Freak (1981).
And this is not Astérix et les Vikings, it's Comment allez-vous, mes amis enfants et les Asterix. Asterix and Obelix are secondary character in this not-funny juvenoia teen romance adventure. They repeat that fear gives you wings so much, but it wasn't any amusing even the first time. It's just bad plot.
While the animation quality is retro-actively impressive, the protagonist looks like an alcoholic granny, at least they shou'dn't've made him ugly. And the girl runs around without pants in a miniskirt in sub-zero weather, and it is a very mini skirt, with a lot of creepy frames.
If you want to introduce a new character no one asked for, instead of the main stars, at least do it right. The 2018 cartoon was almost great.
So we watched it with the original sound and russian subtitles.
This is the last 2D Asterix film, released twelve years after the previous one. And the next one came out only eight more year later with 3D CGI animation.
Well, i can admit that as far as 2D animation goes, this often looks really good. But the rest is still bad.
The main story is a double cringe How Do You Do Fellow Kids these days. It came out in 2006, but it thinks that SMS, vegetarians, scratching, and disco music are still the most relevant phenomenons with teens (lets pretend of at least 18 years old in this film). It plays boomers' pop music as if it's new and hip, literal Eye of the Tiger (1982) (but not electronics), Get Down On It (1981), and Super Freak (1981).
And this is not Astérix et les Vikings, it's Comment allez-vous, mes amis enfants et les Asterix. Asterix and Obelix are secondary character in this not-funny juvenoia teen romance adventure. They repeat that fear gives you wings so much, but it wasn't any amusing even the first time. It's just bad plot.
While the animation quality is retro-actively impressive, the protagonist looks like an alcoholic granny, at least they shou'dn't've made him ugly. And the girl runs around without pants in a miniskirt in sub-zero weather, and it is a very mini skirt, with a lot of creepy frames.
If you want to introduce a new character no one asked for, instead of the main stars, at least do it right. The 2018 cartoon was almost great.