Asterix Versus Caesar
In the pit-scene the extras had to scream and cheer like crazy. At first the crew couldn't get the people to be loud and wild enough. Then the director decided to split them up in two groups. Fans of adverse German soccer teams were put up against each other. It worked. The extras went berserk from then on.,Most Roman legionaries are wearing iron helmets and plate armor (lorica segmentata or lorica laminata), which in the time of Julius Caesar were not used by the Roman army yet. Roman soldiers in the Gallic War mainly wore simple bronze helmets and chain-mail armor.,Astérix: Look - the Man in the Iron Mask!
Obélix: Have they written that yet?,This movie is dedicated to René Goscinny,Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #22.6 (1999),She Didn't See Me
Performed by A1,The previous adaptations of the great Goscinny-Uderzo characters were all animated (including "Asterix vs. Caesar," which uses some of the same source material as this one). The most recent one, "Asterix Conquers America," suffered from the voice of Craig Charles as Asterix and from awful music by Harold Faltermeyer, but at least it wasn't live-action... unlike this one, which went down as well with the British moviegoing public as "Les Visiteurs," i.e. not very well at all.

The script was taken from several different books, leaving a not very streamlined plot; the(weak)humour was more adult (read: dirty) than you'd expect; the special effects weren't (especially the CGI spiders all over Asterix); and Roberto Benigni's overacting came through even with his being dubbed (like everyone else) into English.

However, Gerard Depardieu did make a good Obelix.

And if you're only watching this to drool over Laetitia Casta (which is, let's face it, not the worst reason to watch it), God's gift to lingerie doesn't spend much time on screen until the homestretch, when she does a Britney Spears in the video for "Lucky," if - in the words of Joe Bob Briggs - you know what I mean, and I think you do.,