History WesternAnimation / AsterixInBritain

-->'''Unhygienix:''' Now, where were we?
-->'''Fulliautomatix:''' Um, your fish stink?
-->'''Unhygienix:''' Oh, yes. MY FISH ARE FRESH! ''[Everyone resumes fighting]''

* {{Facepalm}}: Caesar puts his hand over his face with dismay when he sees the chaos caused by the hand flags centurion who tried to brush a seagull off (with his flags still in his hands) and inadvertently ordered the fleet's catapults to fire doing so.

* BritishStuffiness: Mercilessly parodied. Anticlimax is basically made of this trope, remaining completely composed regardless of the situation. Special mention, though, goes to an unnamed Briton who doesn't even flinch when Gauls break into his house by bashing the front door and comforts his wife by calmly saying that those "gentlemen" surely have a good explanation for their behaviour. Later, when he hears Obelix performing a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on a thief, he just makes an off-handed comment that their neighbours are very noisy today.

* ChekhovsGun: The herbs provided to Gauls by Phoenician merchants as a "reward" for saving them from pirates. They turn out to be tea leaves and play crucial part in Asterix's BatmanGambit near the end.

* NearVillainVictory: Downplayed. Defeating Asterix and Obelix in open fight is still beyond the Romans' reach, but they succeed in breaking the barrel of magical potion which the Gauls try to deliver to besieged Briton village, [[AllForNothing making their entire quest moot]]. Just when it seems that our heroes will be forced to defend the village by themselves, Asterix comes up with an idea to make a brew of the herbs from Phoenician merchant and trick the Britons into believing it is the promised magical SuperStrength potion.

* TruerToTheText: The film sticks pretty close to the comic book, minus the AdaptationExpansion avbove and the absence of some Roman officers. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' films it is sandwiched between, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

** This gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Getafix in the last scene of the movie, when he expresses his surprise that Englishmen enjoyed the tea provided to them by Asterix... only to [[DoubleTake correct himself]] and claim that what he meant to say was "Britons".

* BatmanGambit: Gauls fail to deliver the barrel of magical potion to a besieged Briton village, but Asterix provides it with a brew made from herbs he obtained from Phoenician merchant (tea leaves, actually) and makes the Britons belie that it's a magical potion -- knowing that such belief will inspire them into delivering a CurbStompBattle to the Romans while demoralizing the former ones.

* TruerToTheText: The film sticks pretty close to the comic book, minus the absence of some Roman officers. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' films it is sandwiched between, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

* TruerToTheText: The film sticks pretty close to the comic book, minus the absence of some Roman officers. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' movies it is sandwiched between, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

* TruerToTheText: To this day, the film is perhaps the one that sticks the most to the original material, out of all the ''Asterix'' adaptations, tied with ''WesternAnimation/AsterixTheGaul''. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' movies it is sandwiched between, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

** The landing of the Roman fleet in Britain looks a lot like D-Day (the 1944 Normandy landings) complete with sounds of machine guns, planes and bombs. The Romans soldiers escalating the cliff also evokes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_du_Hoc battle of the Pointe du Hoc]], which was famously depicted in ''The Longest Day''.

* ShoutOut: Quite a few nods to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII here.
** The landing of the Roman fleet in Britain looks a lot like D-Day (the 1944 Normandy landings) complete with sounds of machine guns, planes and bombs. The Romans soldiers escalating the cliff also evokes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_du_Hoc battle of the Pointe du Hoc]], which was famously depicted in ''Film/TheLongestDay''.

UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar has conquered Brittania with his Roman legions, and a small village of Britons does its best to resist. They send Anticlimax (Jolitorax in French) across the Channel into Gaul, to seek help from another village that resists Roman rule, that of Asterix, Anticlimax's first cousin once removed. Asterix and Obelix volunteer to accompany him back to his village with a barrel full of the SuperStrength-granting magic potion made by Getafix the druid.

UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar has conquered Brittania with his Roman legions, and a small village of Britons does its best to resist. They send Anticlimax (Jolitorax in French) across the Channel into Gaul, to seek help from another village that resists Roman rule, that of Asterix, Anticlimax's first cousin once removed. Asterix and Obelix volunteer to accompany him back to his village with a barrel full of the SuperStrength-granting magic potion made by Getafix the druid (Panoramix, in French).

* TruerToTheText: To this day, the film is perhaps the one that sticks the most to the original material, out of all the ''Asterix'' adaptations, tied with ''WesternAnimation/AsterixTheGaul''. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' movies, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

* TruerToTheText: To this day, the film is perhaps the one that sticks the most to the original material, out of all the ''Asterix'' adaptations. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' movies, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

* TruerToTheText: To this day, the film is perhaps the one that sticks the most to the original material, out of all the Asterix adaptations. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' movies, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

* SlipperySkid: The film has a RunningGag of messengers sent to General Motus always arriving at his headquarters after the floors have been waxed, resulting in slips, slides and crashes into various marble statues (explaining why so many Greco-Roman era statues in museums nowadays are broken).

* {{Facepalm}}: Caesar has one when he sees the chaos caused by the hand flags centurion who tried to brush a seagull off (with his flags still in his hands) and inadvertently ordered the fleet's catapults to fire doing so.

* HandSignals: The Roman invasion fleet is being coordinated by a centurion using hand flags. Just then a seagull lands on his helmet. His frantic efforts to brush it off inadvertently signal the fleet's catapults to open fire on their own ships.

* SlipperySkid: The film has a RunningGag of messengers sent to General Motus always arriving at his headquarters after the floors have been waxed, resulting in slips, slides and crashes into various marble statues (explaining why so many Greco-Roman era statues in museums nowadays are broken).

UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar has conquered Brittania with his Roman legions, and a small village of Britons does its best to resist. They send Anticlimax (Jolitorax in French) across the Channel into Gaul, to seek help from another village that resists Roman rule, that of Asterix, Anticlimax's first cousin once removed. Asterix and Obelix volunteer to accompany him back to his village with a barrel full of the SuperStrength-inducing magic potion made by Getafix the druid (Panoramix, in French).

''Asterix in Britain'' (''Astérix chez les Bretons'' in French) is the French-Danish 1986 [[AnimatedAdaptation animated film adaptation]] of the [[Recap/AsterixInBritain eponymous]] ''ComicBook/{{Asterix]]'' comic book, directed by Pino Van Lamsweerde. The soundtrack was composed by Music/VladimirCosma and the British band Cook da Books performed the theme song.

''Asterix in Britain'' (''Astérix chez les Bretons'' in French) is the French-Danish 1986 [[AnimatedAdaptation animated film adaptation]] of the [[Recap/AsterixInBritain eponymous comic book]], directed by Pino Van Lamsweerde. The soundtrack was composed by Music/VladimirCosma and the British band Cook da Books performed the theme song.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: The song is in both the French and English dub (it helps that it's a song with English lyrics in the French version to begin with).

* TruerToTheText: To this day, the film is perhaps the one that sticks the most to the original material, out of all the Asterix adaptations. It's especially noticeable when the other two 1980s ''Asterix'' movies, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' and ''Asterix and the Big Fight'', were both AdaptationAmalgamation.

** Big Ben's bell sound in Londinium, over 1900 years too early.