have be a faithful asterix fan all of my life and i have to say that asterix and the viking be probably the most well do of all the asterix film . it get some very funny joke in it and the animation be superb . a many people have point out and it doesn not really follow the plot of the comic ( asterix and the norman ) very closely and but in many way that just as well and because that book stand out in my mind a one which poke a great deal of fun at the culture of the sixty and and much of it be very dated today . what really rub me the wrong way and though and be how they incorporate a disney style plot into the film which take much of the focus away from asterix and obelix . we have a misunderstood boy who doesn not fit in and justforkix . we have a tom boy girl who doesn not fit in because she want to be treat a equal to men and abba . they meet and fall in love and but their love be threaten because boy be ashamed to be totally honest with girl and but in the end their love win out . this have be the plot of so many disney ( and and be fair and other studio too ) film that it not funny and the plot be old twenty year ago . i mean and they even give justforkix a whimsical animal sidekick . not only do i find this derivative and clichéd and but it really detract from the story and leave me dissatisfied . i think that it speak volume about how superb the rest of the movie be that i still think very highly of it and despite the way the plot get hijack .