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Because he has broken one of Thunder God Thor's beloved immortal goat's
legs, young Tjelfe and his kid sister Roskva have to become Thor's and his
mischievious brother Loki's servants to repent for their sins. Soon,
Loki, coming back from the Underworld, brings with him the short-grown
giant Quark, a well-meaning but lame-brained creature who causes massive
chaos whereever he goes.
Soon, the mess Quark leaves is too much for the kids to handle and they
run away with Quark to live in a secret treehouse forever after. But Thor
wouldn't be Thor if he wouldn't find them eventually ... and faced with
the facts, he comes to only one conclusion: He and Loki and the kids have
to take Quark back to the Underworld.
The God of the Underworld though has no intention of taking the little
giant back, but he gives his visitors a few challenges, and should they
master just one of them he will take Quark after all. The challenges are
an eating competition between Loki and a Troll, Tjelfe has to race another
Troll, and Thor has to lift the God of the Underworld's cat then wrestle
his mother ... and our heroes fail miserably in all their challenges, but
Tjelfe finds out why: The God of the Underworld has cheated in each
competition, Loki's adversary at eating was not a Troll but fire itself,
the other Troll was winning with the help of magic, the cat was really the
all mighty, giant and immensely heavy serpent of the Underworld, and the
old woman Thor had to wrestle was actually age itself..
So our heroes do not feel obliged to take Quark back with them, and
actually make up a trick to leave him behind ... which the God of the
Underworld has to accept for better or worse.
Back in Asgaard, the land of the Gods, everybody is happy, and Thor
even presents Tjelfe with a sword to show him he accepts him as a warrior
... only Roskva is heartbroken, because she really began to like Quark, so
she retreats to the secret treehouse, to find - well, Quark.
Essentially, Valhalla is the short-grown giant Quark's film, every time the mute,
lame-brained but good-natured creature - who in 1987 also was the
star of a series of animated shorts centered around him - is on screen to
create chaos, things get going, and the film is funny. However, all the
pseudo-mythologhical mumbo-jumbo always borders the cheesy on one hand, on
the other it never unfolds to its full potential - and so the action, the
solution of the story and the ending as such are all rather underwhelming,
making this film rather a disappointment. It's not all bad, mind you, it
just could have been so much better.
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