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Comment Keep This article is in 20 languages, which is pretty widespread - and there's a lot more info and sources in the French page. I'd be loth to write it off, TBH, but am reaching for the popcorn and sitting on the sidelines for now... (update: off the fence!) Best
Alexandermcnabb (
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13:17, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. I removed the Prod because I found
this: I can't access the contents, but this movie has a separate entry (chapter?), so this at least should mean some indepth, independent information. The film is still being shown on TV
[1] (despite what the article now claims, it wasn't made for the direct-to-video market but was made as a cinema movie, but didn't perform well there). More significant coverage can be found
here, a short entry
here. Reruns on French television are quite successful
20132015. Most likely there were reviews when the film was new, the above sources are all from decades later.
Fram (
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13:41, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I dont' find much in French for the film; the comic book of the same name has coverage, mostly for being banned in several schools due to the portrayal of Native Americans.
Oaktree b (
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13:43, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep even beyond the non-English language sources it meets
WP:NFILM with sufficient notable reviews, there were quite a few brief reviews from England during its release and at least one decent-ish review online in Empire:
Asterix Conquers America Review. A few behind paywalls I can't easily access but found basic info on:
Asterix Conquers America (Asterix in Amerika) directed by Gerhard Hahn, Felperin, Leslie. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 5, Iss. 8, (Aug 1995): 38.
Asterix Conquers America (Asterix in Amerika) directed by Gerhard Hahn, Hansen, Eric. Variety; Los Angeles Vol. 358, Iss. 9, (Apr 3, 1995): 144.
The Arts: A magic potion for the summer, DELINGPOLE, JAMES. The Daily Telegraph; London (UK). 11 Aug 1995: 14 (with a pull quote of It's this sort of topical humour which will keep grown-up yawns at bay while the kids are enthralled by this witty, superbly animated and generally faithful update of Goscinny and Uderzo's comic book, Asterix and the Great Crossing.". "Asterix gets in a real States", Liverpool Echo, England, Friday, August 11, 1995. A paragraph in
Turning the Page, Austria, Peter Lang, 2006.
Skynxnex (
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13:49, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment No harm to nominator, the article needed better sourcing and was sloppy as presented - and the film, despite its 20 WP articles, was pretty much direct to video. That's hardly the stuff of The English Patient... Best
Alexandermcnabb (
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14:21, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
True, but it is way more than your average direct-to-video though, e.g. in 2012 it was used as a lengthy example in a German book on "innovation management"
[2]. It looks as if it had a wide but somewhat disappointing cinema release in France, with 125,000 visitors the first week
[3], ending with about 1 millipn visitors in France in total
[4]: not the success of other Asterix movies, but a real cinema release anyway (in other European countries as well).
Fram (
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14:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Even with all of the paywalled sourced we're looking at squeaking over the bar not a clean pass. Nominator is to be commended and their BEFORE appears to have been adequate. Being wrong and being incompetent aren't the same thing and its inappropriate to attack the nominator in a deletion discussion.
Horse Eye's Back (
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14:58, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
That the indentation gives the impression of it being a personal statement, i.e. you are stating "its inappropriate to attack the nominator in a deletion discussion." in reply to me, even though it wasn't a reply to me at all.
Fram (
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16:06, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
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