#Asterix and the vikings part 1 movie

IвЂ™m no Asterix purist, and found the artwork to be entertaining in itself, both in terms of details, colours and similarity to the comics.

#Asterix and the vikings part 1 movie

Familiar characters, fun gags, jokes, traditional scenes like boar eating and nicely drawn images go a long way, and on those accounts this movie delivers. The story is quite straight forward, and somewhat on the thin side, but in a movie like this, originality is perhaps not the most important criteria. Howver, Justforkix has fallen in love with the Viking kingвЂ™s daughter Abba. The reason for travelling there was to retrive the son of chief Vitalstatistix, the sensitive and artistic Justforkix, who was kidnapped by the Vikings after having raided an empty village. Though not a straight Viking movie, of course, Vikings are included to a large extent, with large portions of the story taking place in Norway, in the icy fjords where the Vikings have built their cabins. Based on Asterix and the Normans from 1966, the film takes some liberties with the story and adds both events and characters, but letвЂ™s look at the movie on its own feet. Asterix and the Vikings is the 14th movie in the franchise, depending on wether you count unreleased movies or not. More than a dozen movies have been made from the stories, both animated and live action. 36 books have been published until now, taking the format of stand-alone graphic novels. Created in 1959, the series follows the exploits of a village of indomitable Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. Most Europeans know the two characters Asterix and Obelix, the heroes of the beloved comic written by RenГ© Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. The highlyВ successful Franco-Belgian comic book hero takes to the seas to rescue a young man, in this 14th animated feature about the proud Gauls in historical Northern France.