Right, let's tie up the bard and bring on the boar.

Perhaps the makers of the later animated movies and the live-action ones could take the hint? (Or is adapting them properly beyond 'em?) Sheer pleasure throughout, with moments that still make me laugh years after seeing it and some surprisingly strong satire, all the movies should have been like this. There is a book out, but it's the adaptation of the movie, making 'The Twelve Tasks Of Asterix' the only one to date actually written for the screen first. Julius Caesar issues a challenge to the Gauls: If they can complete 12 tasks, the Roman Empire is theirs. : All the Hercules stuff is true to myth.

Page, Panel Comment : The second time we see a naked female breast in Asterix books. actually, that last one is so funny you have to see it for yourself. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix - Annotations. The best of the several movie adventures of Asterix, Obelix, Vitalstatistix and Co., our heroes are given a series of increasingly difficult tasks by Caesar, with the future of the village at stake - ranging from crossing a ravine by an invisible bridge ('Which you do not see over there') through avoiding the lures of the sirens, combating a champion javelin thrower and getting a permit for the next task (something that will strike a chord in anyone who's ever had to face red tape) to facing a celestial challenge by a god who asks them to.

Twelve tasks of asterix