ERIK THE VIKING (1989) ¢ ¢
D: Terry Jones
Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Imogen Stubbs,
Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones,
Antony Sher, Freddie Jones, Samantha Bond
A motley crew of Norsemen sail west, over the edge of the world and all the way to Valhalla, hoping to wake up the gods and bring the Age of Darkness to en end. A Monty Python spinoff that tries to do for the Vikings what "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" did for the Knights of the Round Table, but the inspired zaniness the gang brought to the Arthur legend only rarely materializes. Terry Jones wrote and directed and John Cleese shows up as an evil warlord, but the other Pythons are nowhere to be found, and the movie could desperately use them. The Richard Widmark/Sidney Poitier adventure "The Long Ships" is a better Viking comedy than this.
Terry Jones
(1942-2020)
