This almost works until the rest of the Gauls shows up to silence Cacofonix and move into their new apartments.Ĭaesar begins the final part of his plan, razing the village. In another attempt to make the Roman civilians leave, Asterix has Cacofonix to sing deafeningly loud outside the mansions. While Squaronthehypotenus is reluctant to allow their stay, Senator Prospectus allows them to stay as part of Caesar's plan.Ĭaesar then enacts the next phase of the plan by offering free apartments to the Gauls. Asterix, appalled with what the village has become, leaves with Obelix, Getafix, Dogmatix and Cacofonix to get their own apartment at the Mansions. The Roman civilians also begin shopping in the village, causing an escalating price war over fish and 'antique' weaponry. Upon encountering and befriending Obelix and Dogmatix in the forest, the Gauls reluctantly agree to temporarily accommodate the Roman familyĪsterix, Obelix and Getafix try numerous methods to make the civilians leave, from causing heavy rain and noise pollution, to trying to create a noxious stench, only for these to backfire by the civilians embracing these as a natural part of life in Brittany. Meanwhile, Anonymus, Dulcia and Mischiefus, a family from Rome, are denied their apartments given to them in a lottery due to lacking documents. Realizing that they cannot harm the civilians, they return to the village to plan how to make them leave. The Gauls prepares to attack and demolish the Mansions, but discover it to already be populated by Roman civilians. The legionaries also go on strike for similar reasons upon hearing about it. This backfires however when the slaves instead use it to rapidly advance construction, as well as barter for the same pay as the legionaries, along with their freedom and apartments for each of them upon completion. Upon hearing the frustrated Squaronthehypotunus threatening to work the slaves to death, Asterix and Obelix invade the Roman camp to free the slaves and provide them with the Gauls' magic potion as a means to escape. Asterix and Obelix attempt to counteract the Romans’ efforts using magic acorns from Getafix the druid, which instantly sprout into full trees upon planting. Project leader and architect Squaronthehypotenus and the Roman legion commanded by Centurion Somniferus order slaves to deforest the surrounding area. Plotįrustrated with the ongoing rebellion of the Gauls, Julius Caesar devises a new scheme to conquer them: the construction of a city of luxury apartments dubbed “The Mansions Of The Gods” in the forest near the Gauls' village as a means to absorb them into Roman civilization.ĭuring a boar hunt, Asterix and Obelix discover the Mansions’ construction site. Asterix: The Land of the Gods was released on DVD, VOD and Blu-ray on 9 June 2015, by M6 Vidéo. It received an IFMCA Award nomination for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature Film. ![]() ![]() It received generally favourable reviews and has grossed over $51 million on a €31 million budget. ![]() The film was theatrically released on 26 November 2014 by SND Films in France across 696 movie theatres. It was the first Asterix film animated in 3D. The film was Roger Carel’s last film before his retirement and later death. The film features the voices of Roger Carel (in his final film role), Guillaume Briat, Lionnel Astier, Serge Papagalli, and Florence Foresti. ![]() It is based on the Asterix comic book The Mansions of the Gods, which was the seventeenth book in the comic book series Asterix by Goscinny and Uderzo. But they’re unlikely to find these alterations too Gauling.Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods ( French: Astérix – Le Domaine des Dieux), also titled Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods, is a 2014 French 3D computer-animated adventure family comedy film directed by Louis Clichy with a story written and co-directed by Alexandre Astier. Purists may miss the zany wordplay and argue with a denouement that is rather less tart than the one found in the source material. But they do - happily - clean up the rather dated racial profiling found in the 1971 original. It helps that Mansion of the Gods is one of the most eventful Asterix adventures and that the English-language voice cast – Whitehall, Frost, Tate, et al – have plenty of comic nous.Ĭo-directors Astier and Clichy mostly stick carefully to shenanigans of the 17th volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, with its sideswipes at colonisation and capitalism. The CG might be a little algorithmic but this new animated feature based on the much-loved Asterix adventure Mansion of the Gods is a marked improvement on the same franchise’s live actioners starring Gérard Depardieu. Asterix imagines their new powers will allow them to rebel and escape instead, they form a trade union and allow the new Roman settlers to arrive in no time.
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