Enkidu_of_Abydos Review of Erik the Viking

Erik the Viking (1989)

Fun comedy and very interesting mythical adventure

[7/10 · 8 December 2007]

I expected this movie to be a typical Python-esquire comedy, with silly jokes constantly popping up. I don't really like such comedies (I prefer more intelligent humor), but I saw a scene from the movie and thought it was really funny so I watched the movie. What I found out surprised me. The jokes are really funny, but they make up only a small part of the movie (perhapse a quarter of the time). The rest is not that funny (if you're expecting to laugh all the time), but is a relatively decent mythological adventure movie, which strongly reminded me of the movies about the adventures of Odysseus and Jason. You have sea voyages to unknown places, mythical beasts, gods, heroes, magical artifacts... I really like that kind of stuff and I have seen quite a few movies based on Greek and Celtic myths but few based on Nordic (Germanic) myths until now. I don't know if it's really based on an existing myth but it's still in the setting of Nordic mythology. And while it's not really high quality, it's still relatively convincing.