{"id":2827,"date":"2007-12-13T17:24:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2007-12-13T17:24:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:24:47","slug":"2827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik the Viking<\/i><\/a> is Terry Jones’s Yellowbeard<\/i>, which is to say, essentially, that it’s really, really bad. It stars lots of people who I know ought to be funny, and have been funny in other things, but the end product is just a stillborn misbegotten mess. In his review<\/a> of the movie, Roger Ebert wrote, “Every once in a while a movie comes along that makes me feel like a human dialysis machine,” and that the movie “represents some kind of comprehensive lack of judgment on Jones’s part.”<\/p>\n

As a Monty Python<\/i> fan, it and Yellowbeard<\/i> just made me sad. Even Fierce Creatures<\/i><\/a> has Michael Palin running around in a bumblebee costume. (If I had my way, every<\/i> movie would have Michael Palin running around in a bumblebee costume.)<\/p>\n

Now there’s apparently a new “Director’s Son’s Cut” of Jones’s film. I don’t know how they arrived at this odd concept, or who thought financing a new cut of the film on DVD was what the world needed. But the best that Nathan Rabin of the AV Club<\/a> can offer is: “Perhaps a 15-minute cut somewhere down the line will finally correct the film’s abundant pacing problems and the long, dry stretches between mild chuckles and modestly amusing gags.”<\/p>\n

He also warns that “if current trends provide any indication, around 15 years from now, Jones should absolutely kill with Erik The Viking<\/i>‘s smash-hit musical Broadway adaptation.”<\/p>\n

I wish he was wrong about that, I really do.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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