Review of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

After seeing how much my children (especially my 7-year-old son) loved the first two Asterix movies, I got the third installment as a "version remasterisée" blu-ray, with the original English dubbing. This was unexpectedly the best of the Asterix movies, with heavily slapstick humor which manages to be witty at the same time. It's a strange hybrid of Roman history and Greek mythology (Caesar explains that the 12 labors of Hercules need "an update") and the bizarre imaginary Gaul of the Asterix universe. And the best part is, our two heroes don't even have to drink much of the druid potion to finish off the 12 tasks! My own favorite part is the alternate-reality ending in which Caesar abdicates his dictatorship to the Gauls, and lives out a happy domestic life with Cleopatra back in Egypt, free from the worries of war, politics, and treacherous murder or suicide. But they didn't show "Little Caesar"...