Steve Rose 

Asterix and the Vikings

Steve Rose: Old-school line animation.
  
  


A plucky Gallic utopia holding out against the homogenising forces of global imperialism - you can see why Asterix is still relevant to France. The rest of the world is a different matter, which could be why this old-school line animation - a French-Danish collaboration - is pitched squarely at "the youth". It brings in some teen-friendly characters in the form of the chief's vegetarian, peace-loving nephew Justforkix, and the feisty girl-power daughter of the invading Vikings, unimaginatively named Abba. They do some half-heartedly teen-friendly things, but otherwise it's the usual Asterix business of broad comedy, Roman-bashing, boar-eating and terrible puns. It's jolly enough, but pretty forgettable - the sort of thing you'd let an 11-year-old watch in bed if they were home from school with a temperature.

 

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