Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (), also titled Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods, is a 2014 French-Belgian 3D computer-animated adventure family comedy film written and directed by Alexandre Astier. It is based on the Asterix comic book "The Mansions of the Gods", which was the seventeenth book in the comic book series "Asterix" by Goscinny and Uderzo. The film features the voices of Roger Carel, Guillaume Briat, Lionnel Astier, Serge Papagalli, and Florence Foresti. The film sticks to the book's plot very closely while also expanding on it. It was the
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