Asterix At The Olympic Games English Dub -

Contemporary reviews were brutal. The Guardian called it "a cultural car crash, albeit one you cannot look away from." DVD Talk noted that "Triple H sounds less like a Gaulish warrior and more like a man reading cue cards at a monster truck rally."

The 2008 live-action dub represents an extreme form of domestication. However, it does not merely translate French jokes into English equivalents. Instead, it replaces the original’s satirical targets (ancient Greece, Roman bureaucracy, modern sports doping) with Anglophone in-jokes about WWE, celebrity culture, and mid-2000s tabloid fodder. asterix at the olympic games english dub

A comparative study between this dub and the Japanese dub of the same film (which reportedly casts Asterix as a samurai) could illuminate how different cultures "domesticate" the same Gallic source. Additionally, an analysis of the uncredited script doctor (rumoured to be an American stand-up comedian) would clarify the intentionality behind the gimmick choices. Contemporary reviews were brutal

However, a reevaluation suggests the dub works as camp . It is so aggressively anachronistic and celebrity-obsessed that it circles back to entertainment. The original Asterix comics mocked French stereotypes; the English dub mocks the very process of dubbing. When Lance Bass’s character breaks the fourth wall and asks, "Wait, are we in a French movie right now?", the dub achieves a kind of postmodern nirvana. However, a reevaluation suggests the dub works as camp