Artistic License Chemistry: How Artifis managed to make a cake (in the English dub) without eggs or flour is never explained (it's pudding in the French version).Animation Bump: The animation was noticeably better than that of Asterix the Gaul, which came out the year before.Adapted Out: Edifis' scribe does not appear.Adaptational Comic Relief: Cleopatra's lion, complete with Amusing Injuries and trying to sing.Adaptation Expansion: The film adds Cleopatra taking a bath (complete with a song and her goofy lion's antics), a second encounter with the pirates, a Disney Acid Sequence song about Obelix's appetite, a Villain Song about the making of the poisoned cake, as well as an attempt by Caesar to quietly neutralize Getafix.Once they get to Egypt, the Gauls have to thwart the attempts by both rival architect Artifis and the Romans to ruin the palace's construction.įor the tropes common to both the comic book and the film, see the comic book's page. Getafix accepts to follow him in Egypt, and so do Asterix and Obelix. Edifis remembers that his distant friend, the Gaulish druid Getafix, can make a potion that grants tremendous strength, and sets sail for his village.

To do so, she tasks the (pretty inept) architect Edifis with it, and shall he fail to pull it off, she would feed him to her crocodiles. Cleopatra retaliates by betting she can have a gigantic palace built for him in three months. Julius Caesar provokes Cleopatra VII by pretending Egyptians are decadent and not capable of building anything significant anymore. Gérard Calvi composed the soundtrack again after his work on the previous film, Asterix the Gaul. It is an adaptation of the album of the same name. Asterix and Cleopatra ( Astérix et Cléopâtre in French) is a 1968 French-Belgian animated film based on the Asterix comic book series and directed by the latter's creators themselves, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, in collaboration with Pierre Tchernia on the script.

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