Asterix and Cleopatra

1968 [FRENCH]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / History

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 15726 15.7K

egypt jealousy cairo magic village queen

Plot summary

Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.

Director

René Goscinny Photo
René Goscinny

Top cast

Erich Fiedler Photo
Erich Fiedler as Vorkoster
Jacques Balutin Photo
Jacques Balutin as Tournevis
Micheline Presle Photo
Micheline Presle as Voix additionnelles
Peter Schiff Photo
Peter Schiff as Wächter
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
665.21 MB
1000*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 12 min
Seeds 4
1.21 GB
1488*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 12 min
Seeds 26

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BabelAlexandria 8 / 10

Hieroglyphics as a "Natural" Language

My kiddos loved the first Asterix movie, so I quickly picked this up on ebay: one again, a "version remasterisée" on blu ray with excellent quality picture and clear sound, the original English dubbing. Surprisingly, although they are both interested in ancient Egypt, they liked this one less than the first and the third movies. By far their favorite part, and very much in keeping with the series' farcical spirit, is the introduction, in which one of the Egyptian characters (the troubled architect) mimes hieroglyphics as "natural" language (e.g. Sounds of animals and environmental features) rather than human natural language: part of his apology that the dubbing (of Egyptian, apparently, not French!) will be off sequence with the lip movements of the animated characters. How's that for metatheatrics?
Reviewed by vaudevillejones 6 / 10

Not bad...

This is the second Asterix film and, frankly, it's much better than 'Asterix the Gaul' (the first Asterix movie). Partly, I think this is because it's actually less faithful to the book than the first film. As a result, there are jokes that work far better on the screen than on the page, there are new scenes and there are even some fairly decent musical numbers.I only have one real complaint about this film, and that is that a lot of the jokes lack subtlety- they are carried on beyond the point at which they remain funny.That aside, not a bad film. More for the kids than the adults, but fairly entertaining nonetheless.
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