It's a French-Belgian movie, but the Polish DVD looks like this:
My rating: 9/10
I've never been a fan of computer animations, but this one is done very well. More importantly the humour is of the kind I like (at some places I literally laughed out loud) AND the story is unbelievably modern even though the comic book was created in 1971 (the movie screenwriters added to the original story some new absurdities of today's world).
Well, I have to admit that at a couple of places the story is a little illogical, but it is nothing compared to all good sides of the movie. All the characters are fun, but I enjoyed the most the secondary ones: the Roman centurion (the military commander of the Roman soldiers), the Roman soldier who constantly shoots his mouth off, the slave who speaks for all the slaves working at the construction site and the Roman senator.
There is one scene that left me speechless and I'll try to describe it without spoilers to the rest of the story. For some reason (I'm not going to describe the reason) the Roman centurion started to treat the slaves much better than before – he started paying them, he let them live in new apartments in the building they've just built AND he promised them that they would be freed (that they would stop being slaves). When the Roman senator learned about it at first he got angry, but very quickly he found a cunning way to take full control of the new situation. Smiling, he officially freed the slaves, BUT he told them that they would have to move out of the apartments unless they would pay a substantial rent. He explained that the free apartments were for the slaves, but he also told them that they should not worry because he could offer them work at the construction site for the salary equal to the new rent. The construction site director instantly started screaming at the former slaves to get back to work. The former slave who spoke for all the former slaves was stunned by the new situation and before he went to work he was able to say only one sentence: “This is slavery.”
There are many other great references to our world – for example the rising prices (in the Gauls' village), the inclination to live like people who are more “civilized” (the Gauls start to imitate Romans) and the strikes (the Roman soldiers refuse to carry out orders given by the Roman centurion).
And, as always, there is a great song fitting the story perfectly. This time it's an Italian song, obviously. I found this song on Youtube:
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