History Film / ErikTheViking

-->'''Ivar the Boneless:''' Is it a strange sinking in the pit of your stomach? Like you suddenly have to go to the bathroom?

* ReallyGetsAround: Erik isn't too happy to find out Aud had sex with ''five'' other men in the same week after he lost his virginity with her (thinking she'd been a virgin as well) and she talked like he was her true love. She insists he still is though, not like the other guys.

Released in 1989, ''Erik the Viking'' is a film written and directed by ''Creator/MontyPython'' alumnus Creator/TerryJones. The movie follows the adventures of the eponymous Viking, Erik, who one day discovers that he no longer has a taste for the rape-and-pillage lifestyle of ordinary Viking life. Determined to change things, he recruits a band of his fellow Vikings to journey to Valhalla and petition Odin, King of the Gods, to put an end to the Age of Ragnarok. HilarityEnsues.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The inhabitants of Hy-Brasil. Princess Aud remains barefoot even after she joins the party and travels to snowy areas.

* AlluringAnglerfish: The Dragon of the North Sea has a lure that resembles the sun.

* AnAxeToGrind: Most of the Vikings use swords, but Thorfinn Skullsplitter prefers his trusty battle-axe.

* WilliamTelling: At one point, the Vikings take turns hurling axes at a captured girl's head in an attempt to cut off her braids.

* RousingSpeech: Subverted, as Erik thoroughly botches it. ("And... we may not die HORRIBLE deaths..")

* TheBerserker: The aptly named Sven the Berserk and his father, the also aptly-named Sven's Dad (yes, that is how the character appears in the credits). Sven's Dad has a funny moment in [[DiscussedTrope explaining]] the philosophy of the berserk (in a funny voice too).

* BrickJoke: At the beginning of the movie, Sven gets in a duel with another Viking for claiming that his grandfather died of old age, and thus is not in Valhalla. When that Viking dies later in the movie, Sven says that his grandfather will be waiting for him in Valhalla, and the other says that he won't, for he isn't there. When they make it to Valhalla, Sven's Dad recognizes his father among the fallen warriors, and the Viking who had been arguing with Sven throughout the movie admits that Sven was right.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Applied selectively. When the Vikings arrive at Valhalla, they demand that Harald the Missionary, who accompanies the Vikings on their quest, admit that all that "Christianity" nonsense he's been going on about for months is wrong. However, because Harald does not believe in Valhalla, he does not see it, while the rest of the crew, who do believe do. [[spoiler:This gives Harald the ability to ''leave'' Valhalla (As its walls are invisible and insubstantial to him), which enables him to save the rest of the Vikings.]] Harlald also can't see the dragon in an earlier scene.

* KarmicJackpot: Some of the heroes die and go to Valhalla. At the end, they try to save their living friends from getting sent to Hel. They come back to life and get to go home with their living friends when Harold blows the horn the final time.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Applied selectively. When the Vikings arrive at Valhalla, they demand that Harald the Missionary, who accompanies the Vikings on their quest, admit that all that "Christianity" nonsense he's been going on about for months is wrong. However, because Harald does not believe in Valhalla, he does not see it, while the rest of the crew, who do believe do. [[spoiler:This gives Harald the ability to ''leave'' Valhalla (As its walls are invisible and insubstantial to him), which enables him to save the rest of the Vikings.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: Despite its lack of most of the Creator/MontyPython cast (only Terry Jones[[note]]Jones also directs[[/note]] and John Cleese were in this movie) [[WrongfullyAttributed many people think this is a Monty Python film]]. It has to be said it would stand up well with [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Life of Brian]] and [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail The Holy Grail]], probably due to Jones's direction style.

The movie stars Tim Robbins as Erik, and features cameos by Eartha Kitt, Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/MickeyRooney, and Terry Jones himself. Jones took inspiration for the film (but not the film's title) from his own children's book, ''The Saga of Erik the Viking''.