The Arctic looks like a melted dessert, the Viking village like a low-rent neighborhood in Disneyland, and the Vikings themselves like Hell's Angels on Halloween.

All deliver realistic performances.

Unimaginative plot, interminable dialogue in 'Old Norse', some pointless love interest, and a particularly repulsive poodle.

It's a fast, relatively painless hour and a half which won't bore you even though you may wish that the script could have been a little meatier.