Asterix At The Olympic Games English Dub

: Offers the film with English subtitles and, in some regions, the option for English audio.

While Clovis Cornillac took over the role of Asterix and the legendary Gérard Depardieu returned as Obelix, the English dub utilized seasoned voice-over artists to bring the characters to English-speaking audiences.

The English Dub: Translation Choices and Challenges

The English script for is surprisingly sharp. The translators made a valiant effort to convert Goscinny’s original French puns into English equivalents. For example, the Gaulish bard Cacofonix (who sings horribly) gets renamed jokes, and Roman soldier banter is full of anachronistic references that would feel at home in Monty Python’s Life of Brian . John Cleese’s lines as Caesar, in particular, feel as if they were written for him.