Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre

2002, France, directed by Alain Chabat

An enormous hit in France on its release -- even more so than the first live action Asterix film, released in 1999 -- and a point of reference for many French people, with many snippets of dialogue finding their way into the wider cultural lexicon (some of the wordplay is brilliant, and the jokes do come thick and fast, though as ). That said, Asterix and Obelix often feel entirely peripheral to their own film, which takes the film far from the spirit of the original books -- and neither Clavier and Depardieu seems especially invested as a consequence.