History Film / AsterixAtTheOlympicGames

* ActorAllusion: In his first scene in the film, Caesar is admiring himself in a mirror, and he's accompanied by the main theme of ''Le Clan des Siciliens'' (a [[TheMafia mafia]] film in which Creator/AlainDelon played). Doubles as a EnnioMorriconePastiche, since Music/EnnioMorricone composed that theme and the camera angles make Caesar look like he's ready for a duel at dawn in a SpaghettiWestern.
** Then, in the invoked example later, Caesar explicitely states that he doesn't owe anything to anyone - neither to the clan of Sicilians, nor to Rocco and his brothers (''Film/RoccoAndHisBrothers'' being another film where Alain Delon had starred).

* AnachronismStew: The "Sirtaki" dance is used in the film. It was composed and choregraphed for the 1964 film ''Film/ZorbaTheGreek'', it doesn't originate in Ancient Greece in any way.

** "Ave moi" spoken by Caesar may be this to ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' where an actor playing Hitler said "Heil myself!"... or it might just be a recycled joke.

** "Ave moi" spoken by Caesar may be this to ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' where an actor playing Hitler said "Heil myself!"... or it might just be a RecycledJoke.

''Asterix at the Olympic Games'' (''Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques'' in French) is a 2008 French SwordAndSandal comedy film. It adapts the comic book ''Recap/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'' and is the third [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action]] theatrical adaptation of the Creator/ReneGoscinny and Creator/AlbertUderzo comic book series ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' after ''Film/AsterixAndObelixTakeOnCaesar'' and ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'', directed by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann and produced by the latter.

''Asterix at the Olympic Games'' (''Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques'' in French) is the 2008 film adaptation of the comic book ''Recap/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'' and the third [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action]] theatrical adaptation of the Creator/ReneGoscinny and Creator/AlbertUderzo comic book series ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' after ''Film/AsterixAndObelixTakeOnCaesar'' and ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'', directed by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann and produced by the latter.

* ShoutOut: The whole ChariotRace sequence obviously homages ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''.

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* ActorAllusion: In his first scene in the film, Caesar is admiring himself in a mirror, and he's accompanied by the main theme of ''Le Clan des Siciliens'' (a [[TheMafia mafia]] film in which Creator/AlainDelon played). Doubles as a EnnioMorriconePastiche, since Music/EnnioMorricone composed that theme and the camera angles make him look like he's ready for a duel at dawn in a SpaghettiWestern.

* ActorAllusion: In his first scene in the film, Caesar is admiring himself in a mirror, and he's accompanied by the main theme of ''Le Clan des Siciliens'' (in which Creator/AlainDelon played). Doubles as a EnnioMorriconePastiche, since Music/EnnioMorricone composed that theme and the camera angles make him look like he's ready for a duel at dawn in a SpaghettiWestern.

Asterix and Obelix must win the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in order to help their friend Lovesix marry the [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Greek]] princess Irina, who's forced to marry the Roman [[UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus Brutus]]. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the games and get rid of his adoptive father UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar in the process.

* GiftedlyBad: Brutus pretends to like poetry to impress Irina and turns the few words he wrote into a song, but he sucks at it ''big time''.

* EvilWearsBlack: Brutus is the story's villain and he's always decked in black armor.

* {{Tuckerization}}: Singer Francis Lalanne plays a Gaulish spectator named "Francix lalanix".

* DemotedToExtra: Edifis (Creator/JamelDebbouze) returns from ''Mission Cleopatra'', but for a mere [[TheCameo cameo]].

* CanonForeigner: As far as characters with prominence go, Lovesix, Irina and Irina's father are new characters who don't originate in the comics.

** UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Zinédine Zidane as the Egyptian "Numérodis". In French it sounds like "Numéro 10" - "Number 10", which was Zidane's number in the national French team.

** UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Zinédine Zidane played as "Numérodis". In French it sounds like "Numéro 10" - "Number 10", which was Zidane's number in the national French team.

The [[AllStarCast pretty stacked cast]] includes Creator/ClovisCornillac as Asterix, Creator/GerardDepardieu as Obelix, Stéphane Rousseau as Lovesix, Vanessa Hessler as Irina, Creator/BenoitPoelvoorde as Brutus, Creator/AlainDelon as Julius Caesar, Creator/JeanPierreCassel as Getafix (his final film role), Creator/AlexandreAstier as Mordicus, and a number of celebrities in [[TheCameo cameos]].