BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Stephen Alfieri "Eric the Viking" is an awful mess of a film. It is a not very funny, loud, disjointed and style starved film that has nothing going for it.It in no way resembles a "Monty Python" film or sketch. Most of the actors (including Tim Robbins and Mickey Rooney)act as if they thought they had been cast in another "...Holy Grail". Needless to say, the acting is awful.I came away from this movie learning one thing. Terry Jones was far less talented a director than Terry Gilliam. Gilliam's films have a style and quality to them that is both interesting and unique. "Eric the Viking" is flat, dull and you won't want to stick around to watch the whole thing. I didn't.2 out of 10

Nick Drew American actor Tim Robbins plays young Erik, who comes about the shocking realisation of the few laudable aspects of the Viking lifestyle, and wants to change the image of the Vikings for the better, and sets off on a capricious journey conflated of erratically hit & miss satire, and overblown special effects.There are constant bursts of rapid fire dialogue to be found here, but honestly, lacks any real inspiration or inventiveness to be genuinely humorous, even if there may be the odd chuckle, you just sort of take it in the films loose strides. The production is admittedly quite smart, and the impressive set designs give you something interesting to absorb while one scene unravels itself after the other.Apart from this, only the cast inclusion of veteran Cleese manages to liven up the proceedings somewhat for his, albeit brief, appearance as an evil tyrant, but it's just not enough in order to give the buoyancy to float this leaky ship.

tomimt I guess I was expecting more of a pure comedy than a more of a serious note fantasy comedy when I first heard of 'Eric The Viking'. It certainly isn't a dead laughter, thought it has some bits that just make you to chuckle out loud.The style of the film resembles a bit of Terry Gilliams Jabberwocky, even the style of humour is a quite same, but this shouldn't be any surprise considering the power behind the film, which of course is Terry Jones of 'Monty Python' fame. Out of other Pythonites John Cleese pops in to do a small role as a baddie of the film.Eric (soft spoken Tim Robbins) is a viking, who questions his way of living: the pillaging, raping and killing. So he is set on a quest to enter Valhalla to wake the gods and end the age of Ragnarok, so that the sun might finally shine upon the frozen north and the people would stop killing each other. And of course on the way they stumble upon troubles and comedic situations.All things considering the film has some pretty good puns and even some of the scenery and special effects managed to impress me quite a bit. The biggest problem of the film would be the script, as it did cut corners out of the story quite a bit. But at least all the main things get out explained pretty well, so the film doesn't leave any questions hanging too loose in the air.

allancalleja-1 This is the most annoying film and it's arrival on DVD is a disappointment. A bunch of wanna be Monty Python actors attempt to do Python just doesn't work. The jokes fall flat, the script is clever clever to the point of embarrassing, the effects look cheap but not funny cheap, the plot is bland. It's like everyone tried to make a Python film thinking this is the formula. Neither Cleese nor Jones appearances saves it. Jabberwocky and Time Bandits and Baron von Munchaussen had a lot more going for them. Give this one a big miss-- even if it is now only a couple of dollars to buy---that should be the warning to you. God, I wish I'd heeded that warning. Why didn't I smell a rat when I saw it was only couple of dollars. I need therapy now.