Asterix at the Olympic Games (116 mins, PG)
Directed by Frederic Forestier and Thomas Langmann; starring Gerard Depardieu, Alain Delon and Clovis Cornillac

The title of the latest live action film based on the long-running French comic strip, Asterix at the Olympic Games, tells it all. It's spasmodically funny, though rarely when Gérard Depardieu is in view as the diminutive wizard-hero's clumsy giant friend, the mighty Obélix. The best thing about the movie is Alain Delon mocking his own image. He plays a world-weary Caesar foiling his son's assassination plots as he presides over the Olympic Games in ancient Greece where the crowds celebrate Ben Hur-style chariot races with Mexican waves.