Do Not Watch This Film...

Rating: 10/10 (3 March 2007)

...if you do not enjoy silly, random, absurd, meaningless humour -- if you were absent on the day silliness was passed out -- if you are taken with "serious cinema" to the point where you continuously are looking for the "point" -- if you are a medievalist and have read far too much about the Way the Dark Ages Really Were -- or if you are just not in the mood...
Do Not Watch This Film.
You will not think the ravenous rabbit is funny, you will not be interested in the migratory patterns of coconuts (let alone African sparrows), you will hate the knights who say ni! and the ones who say booga-booga-booga even more, you will get tired of the sound of clocking coconuts, you will wonder why the damn black knight doesn't just freaking give up or at least fall over already, and you will certainly not enjoy the songs, the dancing and the general mayhem that is this movie.
On the other hand, if you think you might be slightly interested or if you are nailed to your chair and cannot reach the remote and this very strange Norwegian title comes up on the screen accompanied by some rather overly dramatic music for a man in a funny hat not riding a horse, put on your silly hat and prepare yourself for what I must in all honesty, after at least 25 viewings over more years than I care to recount, give 10 out of 10 stars.
And that's really where it all ends, visually at least.