False Fitting Asterix: the errors of the film by Guillaume Canet

A budget of nearly 65 million euros, 1,300 special effects shots, 500 extras, more than 4.6 million spectators in theaters and a divided public and critical reception at the time of the theatrical release: let us Whether you like it or not, Guillaume Canet’s Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire was certainly one of the cinema events of the first semester.

First original adventure in real shots of the irreducible Gauls imagined by Goscinny and Uderzo, the feature film brings together an impressive cast, where Gilles Lellouche as Obélix, Marion Cotillard as Cleopatra (and Bibine), Vincent Cassel as Jules César, Jonathan Cohen meet , Pierre Richard, José Garcia, Manu Payet, Ramzy Bedia, Julie Chen, Leanna Chea, Linh-Dan Pham, Audrey Lamy, Jérôme Commandeur, Franck Gastambide, Vincent Desagnat, Philippe Katerine, Orelsan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Faced with such a cast and such logistics, Guillaume Canet, also mobilized in front of the camera under the helmet of Asterix, had a lot to do. To the point of losing six kilos, but also of missing a few false connections, which AlloCiné’s technical specialists took great pleasure in finding. Did Michelix and Michelus spot a legion (do you have it?) of errors in the film? The answer in the video available at the top of this article!

And to prolong the pleasure, we invite you to (re)discover our special Asterix Faux Fitting program just above, dedicated to previous live adaptations of the comic strip. The opportunity to appreciate the shooting blunders of Alain Chabat, Claude Zidi, Frédéric Forestier & Thomas Langmann and Laurent Tirard. Michel & Michel do not throw the menhir at Guillaume Canet: there have been failures in all the films of the saga. And it’s heavy, very very heavy!