Cleopatra mission: The real heroes are called Jamel Debbouze, Gérard Darmon or even Édouard Baer (critic)

Alain Chabat’s comedy will return this evening to the first channel.

Asterix and Obelix: Cleopatra missionit is two decades of crazy success to each TV repair, after having attracted 14.5 million spectators in theaters when it came out. A full card that Christophe Carrière had predicted in his review of the film for First. Alain Chabat And Jamel Debbouze were then on the cover of the magazine, and a few pages before their collector’s interview, was our opinion on this “Potes comedy”.

So while waiting for news from his animated series for Netflix, The fight of the chiefsto discover in April, here is our original criticism of its first adaptation ofAsterix.

Alain Chabat talks about Asterix: “Even if it seems to be the brothel, it’s still a bit specific”

Wonder if this asterix is ​​more successful than the previous one (Asterix and Obelix against CaesarZidi, 98) amounts to wondering if Didier is less funny than The mad stadium. It is therefore confusing deconant and franchouillard, comedy and film z … In short, in two directors as in a hundred, it is confusing Alain Chabat with Claude Zidi, both from the school of laughter but not from the same class. After the incongruous but inevitable comparison, remains …Cleopatra missionarchetype of the big prod ordered to hit the front by its 330 million francs of budget (50.3 million euros) and an announced over -media coverage. But the fact that Chabat is at the head of this site thwarts all conventional hair. The boy has TV references and cinema culture full of the script. Of “Super Jaimie” to Tannedfrom PAB PAL to Tiger and Dragonit fuses on all sides of the screen without any other concern than to do and have fun, like his zaz idols (Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, founding trio of Is there a pilot …, a cop … and others). We are therefore not talking about a civil servant on stage but of a multidisciplinary gag enthusiast. A guy who does not let go, heals everything and rakes wide. Certainly not a Camera Welles, but at least one Uderzo-Goscinny of the Cinoche for its total execution respect for comics, with anachronisms and visual daring at discretion and without ostentation.

And the biggest sprain made to myth is ultimately an evil for a good: the late arrival of Asterix & Cie and the treatment of Iceux, close to the contractual obligation, said “Cie” Being limited to the minimum union: Obélix, Panoramix and Idéfix. The fault of the guests to whom Chabat gives pride of place, so much so that the real heroes of the adventure are called Jamel Debbouze, Gérard Darmon or even Édouard Baer. Some will surf the anti -channel wave (it is good in a Parisianist to denigrate the encrypted chain since the death of “NPA”) by denouncing a massive presence of the regulars aroused alongside others (including the Robins of the Woods). We can just as easily see the good side of the farce: these stars are funny, and the obvious connivance which binds them is a highest. Result: a film of friends made atypical by its disproportionate and sympathetic means by its comic energy. Because being profitable (we say also popular) and funny (we say also inspired) is not necessarily incompatible.

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The story of Cleopatra mission :: Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, decides, to challenge the Roman emperor Julius César, to build in three months a sumptuous palace in the middle of the desert. If she succeeds, he will have to concede publicly that the Egyptian people are the greatest of all peoples. To do this, Cleopatra calls on Numberbis, an architect of avant-garde full of energy. If he succeeds, she will cover him with gold. If he fails, she will throw him in the crocodiles.
The latter, aware of the challenge, is looking for help with his old friend Panoramix. The Druid makes the trip to Egypt with Asterix and Obelix. For his part, Amonbofis, the official architect of Cleopatra, jealous that the queen chose Numberbis to build the palace, will do everything to make her competitor fail.

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