Film

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion

Director
Louis Clichy, Alexandre Astier
Certificate
PG
Running Time
87 mins

There’s been no shortage of adaptations of those great Goscinny and Uderzo books, of varying quality (who could forget the terrible live-action movies featuring the alarming sight of shirtless Gerard Depardieu in pigtails), but 2016’s 3D animation Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods proved to be an unexpected slyly funny treat.

https://youtu.be/msdxYOwp9Lk

Now the same team return with a follow-up in which druid Getafix/Panoramix realises he’s getting on a bit and embarks on a mission to find a talented successor.

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By robin askew, Tuesday, Aug 27 2019

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  • Animation
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