For some viewers the non-stop silliness emanating from former members of the Monty Python gang is not the least funny; others find it rib-splittingly humorous. In this story brought to the screen by Terry Jones, the excessively brutal world-view of the Vikings comes in for typically Pythonesque, off-the-wall ridicule. In the story, Tim Robbins plays Erik, an unwilling Viking, who is nonetheless made to participate in his family's lifestyle of committing murder and mayhem on a grand scale. Along the way, he manages to lose his heart to a girl whose village he is raiding - just before he pierces her heart with his sword. Eventually, he decides to end the whole Viking experience by bringing on Raganarok, the Viking apocalypse. To do that, he must go on a memorable mythological journey that takes him to Valhalla and beyond. Just through reading the description of the story, it is impossible to convey its profound silliness: only seeing is believing.