<p> I&#39;m not sure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_viking">Erik the Viking</a> necessarily counts as a great movie by any metric, but when I noticed <a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Erik_the_Viking/70006905">it had appeared on Netflix</a>, I immediately dropped it in my queue.</p> <p> I remember having a great deal of affection for it a couple of decades ago, when it first came out—though I probably haven&#39;t even thought of it since college—so it seemed worth watching.</p> <p> It&#39;s certainly not without some virtues; the story isn&#39;t as quite as fluffy as you might expect (however you might regard the Pythons, they&#39;re not intellectual lightweights, just silly), and the actors do what they can with a script that is certainly geared for laughs—the moment when Erik and company are trying to take in the differing notion of life on Hy-Brasil is played a little broadly, even though the point it&#39;s making about cultural assumptions is pretty funny.</p>