Erik the Viking (Blu-ray) PG-13
A Middle Ages Crisis.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 26, 2015
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tim Robbins, Terry Jones, Eartha Kitt & Mickey Rooney | |
Performer: | John Cleese, Imogen Stubbs, Antony Sher, Samantha Bond, Gary Cady, Charles McKeown, Tim McInnerny, Richard Ridings, Freddie Jones, Danny Schiller & Jim Broadbent | |
Directed by | Terry Jones | |
Edited by | George Akers | |
Screenwriting by | Terry Jones | |
Composition by | Neil Innes | |
Cinematography by | Ian Wilson | |
Produced by | John Goldstone | |
Executive Production by | Terry Glinwood |
Entertainment Reviews:
The idea of telling the story of a Viking warrior who thought there must be more to life than rape and pillage is an amusing one, and for the most part Erik the Viking is an enjoyable film.
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Variety
...[ERIK THE VIKING] has much of the invgorating upside-down Python sensibility....Robbins more than holds his comic own...
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Doesn't measure up to the best of the Python films, but it consistently entertains through the occasional gags that do not work and dialogue that is sometimes obscured by sound effects.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Full of vile personalities, sick gags and outlandish set pieces, Erik The Viking is up there with Jabberwocky and Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure as one of the funniest historical comedies ever made.
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Film4
Rating: 2/5 --
it evaporates quickly from the memory
Kalamazoo Gazette
Rating: 1/5 --
A stillborn comedy in which minutes sometimes mysteriously go by between even attempted gags, and in which virtually no comic scene works up to any kind of viable punch line or payoff.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
It doesn't make any more sense than before, but it does at least zip by at a breakneck pace, making the film more fun than ever.
Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally kills a woman while defending her, he reevaluates his life and goes off in search of the Horn Resounding, which has the power to bring him to his true home--and end the Age of Ragnarok, bringing peace to the kingdom. To get there he has to lead a pathetic group of seasick sailors through the Gates of the World and into sunlight, on their way to Valhalla. But all threatens to come undone when the local blacksmith plots to sabotage the journey to protect his lucrative weapons business. The film includes wonderfully unexpected turns from Mickey Rooney and Eartha Kitt and an especially funny performance by John Cleese as a torturing warlord who enjoys having men killed in myriad creative ways. The film is more similar in tone to Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY than to any of the Monty Python farces.