Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix is one of the most inventive and purely cinematic entries in the Asterix canon — conceived directly for the screen rather than adapted from a comic album, giving it a freedom and structured comedic ambition rarely seen in European animation of its era. The twelve-task structure is brilliantly deployed as a satirical framework skewering bureaucracy, mythology, and Roman pomposity, with each task escalating in absurdity. The 'Place That Sends You Mad' sequence (a labyrinthine government office) is genuinely legendary comic writing and earns Novelty a 4 on its own. The animation is competent and appealing but not technically exceptional for 1976. Voice acting (in its original French form) is characterful and warm, though nothing transformative. The ending, while fun, deflates somewhat after the towering comic peaks of the middle — it resolves tidily but without the satirical punch of the best segments, pulling Ending down.