Asterix & the Big Fight

Asterix & the Big Fight (Astérix et le coup du menhir) is a French 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 2006 for the UK DVD Box Set 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 anachronisitc 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.

Additional Voices
UK Dub
 * Sean Barrett
 * Kathryn Hurlbutt
 * Geoffrey Mathews
 * Elizabeth Proud
 * Kerry Shale
 * Ian Thompson

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