Asterix & the Big Fight

***Asterix & the Big Fight*** (*Astérix et le coup du menhir*) is a French-German animated film based on the comics created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. It is the sixth animated film starring the characters.

## Dubbing History

Two dubs of the film were produced simultaneously in 1990; the first dub was produced in the United Kingdom, featuring an all-star cast, and was released on May 4, 1990.

An American produced dub was commissioned by Disney/Touchstone Pictures for a planned US release in 1990, but never materialized and was shelved. This version features more mainstream pre-lay voice actors, as well as all-star actors Henry Winkler and Rosey Grier. The dub was first released in 1995 for the UK Mollin Video VHS release, rather than using the British dub. The American dub is considered inferior by fans of the original due to it changing parts of the script as well as character names, and general dumbing-down for an audience assumed to be unfamiliar with the characters.

The American dub assigns stereotypical Italian comedy accents to the Roman characters, features a narrator (voiced by Tony Jay) explaining the plot to the audience, several anachronisitic jokes, and makes changes to the terminology of the original story, substituting "wizard" for druid, "fortuneteller" for soothsayer, "rockets" for menhirs, and "vitamin potion" for the magic potion.

## Cast

### Additional Voices

**UK Dub**

* Sean Barrett
* Kathryn Hurlbutt
* Geoffrey Mathews
* Elizabeth Proud
* Kerry Shale
* Ian Thompson

## Notes

* Due to the release plans falling through, some prints of the US dub don't include voice actor credits, and on the UK Optimum Releasing DVD release, the German credits are used instead of the proper credits.
* The end credits for the US dub recycle the scrolling credits from the UK dub, as such, the crew members of that dub are mentioned as well.
* While the UK Dub utilizes the established English character names, the US dub renames many of the casts to its own tongue-in-cheek names.
	+ Getafix is named 'Vitamix'.
	+ Vitalstatistix is named 'Chief Bombastix'.
	+ Cacofonix is named 'Franksinatrix'.
	+ Impedimenta keeps her original French name of 'Bonemine'.
	+ General Caous is named 'Bossa Nova'.
	+ Decurion Crysus is named 'Optione'.
	+ Ardeco is named 'Sergeant Noodles'.
	+ Unhygienix is named 'Fishstix'.
* There are moments in the US Dub where dialogue from the British version is utilized as background audio, and moments where character laughs are recycled from both that dub, as well as the French version and certain other dubs.
* Greg Burson is only credited in the US dub for voicing Chief Bombastix/Vitalstatistix, leaving his roles as Franksinatrix/Cacofonix and Sergeant Noodles/Ardeco uncredited. Similarly, Ed Gilbert is only credited for voicing Bossa Nova/General Caous, Danny Mann is only credited for voicing Vitamix/Getafix, and Bill Martin is only credited for voicing Prolix, leaving all their other roles uncredited.

## Video Releases

 Optimum Releasing

\*In a Box Set with *Asterix the Gaul*, *Asterix & Cleopatra*, *The Twelve Tasks of Asterix*, *Asterix Versus Caesar* and *Asterix in Britain*.

## See Also

 Characters
 External Links
* **Wikipedia** - The Free Encyclopedia

## External Links

* *Asterix & the Big Fight* on the Internet Movie Database