The Saga of the Viking Women and the Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
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In Theaters : December, 1957
Video Release : 28 April, 1993 |
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The Saga of the Viking Women and the Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent Customer Reviews
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Get ready for Corman the barbarian
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Most directors would have us believe that film characters were here one minute and there the next - transported instantly from scene to scene as if by magic. Not Roger Corman. Corman exposes this dirty Hollywood secret by showing the least gullible among us what we already suspected - people actually travel from one place to another. This explains all of the walking scenes you will find in virtually every film Corman ever made. Yes, you can actually lose weight by watching a Corman film - that's how much walking there is. No one can accuse Corman of being lazy (with the obvious exception of his monster creations); just look at the man's preferred title for this particular film: The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent. Is that the longest movie title you've ever seen, or what? Forgive me if I refer to the film by its common name: The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent.
What gives here, anyway? Well, basically, you've got a group of Viking women whose men left three years ago for some reason (they probably said they were going to the store for a loaf of bread or something) and have never returned. Deciding enough is enough, they load up and take to the sea in an effort to either find their men or die trying. These Viking women are pretty tough, but don't go thinking this is a cast of Brunhildas or anything - think Swede, with one attractive, dark-haired oddball (Susan Cabot, Corman's future Wasp Woman) on the side. Anyway, their boat runs up on a vortex, and the next thing they know a huge sea serpent is attacking them. The girls wash up on a beach, where they are soon enslaved by Grimolt warriors who, despite the hot, arid conditions, wear thick wool coats all the time (thus sparing us of the horrible possibility of any stray buffalo shots). The good news is that the women find their missing men; the bad news is that all those brave Viking warriors have been easily broken and enslaved by the Grimolts. Since these hardy warriors have turned into major wusses, it's up to the women to free them all and engineer an escape from both the Grimolt warriors (all nine or ten of them) and the dreaded sea serpent (which, in one far-off view, consists of a stage guy's finger with a fin stuck on it). For your amusement, though, Corman also throws in two of the dweebiest male characters in cinema history. First there is Ottar (Jonathan Haze), who makes Will Wheaton look like a Roman gladiator. For three years, Ottar was the only male living in the community of Viking women, and never once did he score. His only consolation is the fact that the young prince of the Grimolt warriors is even more pathetic than he is. Remember Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter - well, Prince Senja could well be his long-lost, more annoying little brother.
I'll give Corman his due, though - up close, this sea serpent is actually one of his more impressive monsters. He's really not in the film long enough to merit mention in the title, though, so don't expect a lot from the big, scaly dude. As a matter of fact, don't expect much from anyone or anything in this movie. You will find plenty to laugh at, however, and that (plus the cast of buxom blondes) makes The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent fun to watch - and just barely worthy of 3 stars in my book. |
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