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Just perfect...

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Absolutely silly from start to finish, the real problem with this female empowerment adventure is that it goes from episode to episode without really flowing from one plot element to the next. It is a badly written but often funny tale of a group of Viking women (lead by Abby Dalton of "Falcon Crest" and Susan Cabot) who decide to head out onto the Nordic seas to find their missing men and end up finding all sorts of other dangers, often going from one danger to the next without really believable explanation of how they got there. Pretty boy Bradford Jackson, who somehow didn't go off to battle with the Viking men, stows away on the Viking women's ship, and unless I blinked and missed it, went from hiding one moment to being amongst the girls in the next, having been discovered somewhere in between. They fight the winds, swirling sharks, a giant sea serpent who turns their ship over yet somehow they manage to all get to shore. There they come across a Barbaric tribe who place them in further danger, and along th way, Dalton and Jackson are threatened with being burnt to death, face another attack by the sea monster, yet somehow they never manage to look dirty or unshaven or with a hair out of place.Dalton, one of my favorite actors on the long running night time soap opera "Falcon Crest", seems far too modern to be clad in cave women dress, as do most of the other females around her. We are supposed to think that the dark haired men are barbarians simply because they are unshaven, yet they seem to have more of a civilized society than the Nordic looking Viking women and the men they are searching for. The sea serpent is appropriately scary looking, and the effects of its attack on their small but elegant Viking ship are actually pretty good. But the idiotic dialog and weak performances exposes this film for the type of drive-in junk it is where scantily clad females run around like some sort of Amazon women from the moon, but never seem to be really ready for the strenuous adventures they will face. I'm sure that real Viking women were closer to the comic strip character of Helga who was married to Viking Hagar, not the pin-up types presented here. This is worth spending 65 minutes simply for a few good laughs at the expense of the film, but like many early American International films, is quickly forgettable.

Read the title, then, read it again - what sort of quality you'd expect from a movie with such title. 'Viking Women' is very low production even for Corman's standards and it ranks as one of his worst films he has ever directed. It is a bizarre adventure film and not without entertainment value, but the film is silly and feels and seems so rushed (even Corman himself regretted taking such a big scale project on such a shoestring budget) that it is not hard to pass that particular film, although the title might sound intriguing (the title itself is worthy of some award like - Longest and Hardest to Memorize Title Ever).A band of viking women are planning to take a voyage to search their men who went missing while on the sea. Willful and strong women (who are built like underwear models, and almost dressed as one) build a ship, but soon they get into trouble themselves when the storm rises and cheap looking rubber sea serpent crashes their ship. They are cast on the shore of a land ruled by vicious savages who take the women in as slaves.Somehow Corman managed to make it all work and build somewhat coherent movie around half naked viking women, who looked like sorority girls at viking themed costume party, and one lousy cheap looking monster. Still, the final film is ridiculous enough to bear more similarities with the works of Ed Wood rather than better efforts from Corman himself.

Entertainingly stupid hokum from producer / director Roger Corman, notable mostly for that hilariously long title. People shouldn't expect anything from it other than undemanding fun for lovers of micro budget schlock. We've got a very attractive cast in sexy outfits, being made to deliver some truly (and truly funny) awful lines. The special effects are anything but special, but they're endearing in their own way.A gang of viking women are really missing their men, who have been lost at sea for three years. Accompanied by a token dude, Ottar (Jonathan Haze), they build their own boat and set sail. Their boat attacked by an ocean phenomenon dubbed "The Vortex" and, yes, a huge sea serpent, they wash ashore on an island populated by a hostile tribe called the Grimolts. They refuse to be treated as prisoners or slaves and fight back with passion.At least Corman knows to fill the cast with some stunning looking women: Abby Dalton as our heroine Desir, Susan "The Wasp Woman" Cabot as the duplicitous Enger, June Kenney as Desir's innocent younger sister Asmild, and Betsy Jones-Moreland as Thyra. Richard Devon, a Corman regular during this time, looks weary as our villain Stark, and Bradford Jackson is a gas as he stiffly and ineptly portrays Desir's love interest Vedric. Jay Sayer is appropriately wormy as Starks' cowardly, useless son Senya. Gary Conway from "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" plays the small part of Jarl.This isn't totally lacking in atmosphere, and in addition to the (unintended?) laughs provided, there's also a fair amount of action and a nice, rousing score composed by Albert Glasser.Be warned that the title sea serpent doesn't get to do all that much.Five out of 10.

Considering the title and that the film was made by Roger Corman during his "quickie" days (he'd already made something like 679 other films in 1957), this film is about what you'd expect--a very low budget and silly picture. The only decent thing about the movie is the soundtrack--not bad at all. Otherwise, it's pure crap--1950s drive-in movie crap.The film begins with a bunch of scantily-clad blondes in Scandinavia pining for their lost men. Apparently the men had gone off to sea a few years earlier and never returned. So, these ladies decide to go in search of them. In real life, Viking women were amazingly tough ladies, but I just couldn't see this gaggle of skinny ladies putting up much of a rescue effort--and I turned out to be right. After almost being killed by a giant sea monster, the women wash ashore in the land of dark-haired bad actors where they are taken prisoner. There, they discover that their men are slaves to these dark-haired guys. I loved finally seeing the Viking men, as they all looked like extras from a 1960s beach movie--clean shaven, no chest hair and Troy Donahue hair---exactly like the rugged Vikings must have looked!! Eventually, the well-coiffed Vikings escape and the dark-haired jerks get theirs--the end.While there is a bit more to the plot than this, I really don't care to elaborate--it's just not that interesting or important. Instead, let's talk about the worst aspect of the film--the writing. Again and again, characters do things that make no sense at all. Why take the Viking women on a wild boar hunt? Why does the only dark-haired lady in the bunch of Vikings (a sure sign of evil) behave so wildly unpredictably as she does (I suspect really, really bad PMS)? Why does a teeny, tiny sword kill a 6000-foot long sea monster? How did the Vikings expect to keep warm wearing outfits that looked like they were left over from American-International's last caveman or jungle film? And, why didn't the writers include anything that was remotely exciting or interesting? The bottom line is that the film is just barely watchable but why bother unless you are a bad movie fan. Additionally, it seems that Corman must have quickly slapped together this film in anticipation of the soon to be released epic, THE VIKINGS, a film vastly superior in every conceivable way.