Time Bandits Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terry Gilliam
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy
Rating:
A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry_Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Particularly amusing are the boy's encounters with various historical figures, including an entertainment-starved Napoleon (Ian_Holm), a powerful Agamemnon (Sean_Connery), and a surprisingly stuffy Robin Hood, embodied by Gilliam's Python cohort John_Cleese. Episodic by nature, the film is less successful when dealing with the larger narrative, which concerns the pursuit of the dwarves and their time-traveling map by the Supreme Being. However, the combination of Gilliam's visual exuberance and the witty script (by Gilliam and Michael_Palin) ensures an entertaining, if erratic, journey. Judd Blaise, Rovi
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