Wordiezett So much average

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

alfCycle This is a fun, wacky, ridiculous movie from the minds that gave us Monty Python. That Python humor is definitely present, but more toned down for a younger audience. Despite being more of a kids movie, it does have plenty of jokes and gags that adults will enjoy. I did not watch this film as a child, so I cannot give that perspective. However, as an adult I still had fun with this movie. I think I probably would have gotten a kick out of this as a kid as well.7/10************SPOILERS************Recommended for those that enjoy closet horse, giant floating heads, man-pig hybrids, really big people, really small people, exploding people, puppet shows, recounts of historical figures heights, kitchen appliances, chiropractic readjustments, nautical headwear......but that's just like, my opinion, man# Of Times Watched: Once

MissSimonetta Most family films are made with marketing at the forefront of the producers' minds. Toys, tie-ins, demographics all trump creativity and creating a work that will last. Thank the Lord, Terry Gilliam is not such a filmmaker and Time Bandits is not such a movie.A kid tags along with a band of thieving dwarfs on the run from their employer, God Himself (played by none other than Ralph Richardson), as they travel through time and take whatever loot they can. What ensues is a series of off-the-wall adventures, encounters with strange characters, and satire jabs at consumerism and the modern world's obsession with technology. It is a film both children and adults can equally appreciate, if they go along with the strangeness.Time Bandits is not going to appeal to everyone-- it's weird and strangely paced, but it's so unique and funny that I cannot help but love it and return to it again and again.

Woodyanders Unhappy eleven-year-old boy Kevin (a fine and engaging performance by Craig Warnack) inadvertently joins up with a gang of mischievous dwarfs who possess a map that enables them to travel through time and happily plunder treasure from famous historical figures. Meanwhile, Evil (a splendidly sardonic portrayal by David Warner) plots to obtain the map so he can rule the universe.Director Terry Gilliam, who co-wrote the witty and creative script with Michael Palin, displays a tireless and positively infectious go-for-broke inventiveness that's quite a joy to behold from start to finish, keeps the wildly entertaining story moving along at a constant snappy pace, ably crafts and maintains a fairly dark, yet blithely irreverent tone, delivers an uproarious array of inspired wacky gags (for example, an ogre's ship turns out to be a hat on top of a giant's head), further provides wickedly spot-on satirical swipes at free will, mindless greed, technology run amok, shallow consumerism and materialism, and the necessity for evil to exist in the world, and tops everything off with a genuinely startling bleak ending.A slew of sharp cameos from a terrific assortment of big names qualifies as an additional delightful plus: Ian Holm as a neurotic and irritable Napoleon, Sean Connery as the kindly King Agamemnon, John Cleese as a cheerfully doltish and polite Robin Hood, a deliciously droll Ralph Richardson as the prim'n'proper Supreme Being, Peter Vaughan as an ogre with a bad back, Katherine Helmond as the ogre's doting wife, and Palin and Shelley Duvall as lovers both in the Middle Ages and on board the Titanic. Tiny Ross, Kenny Baker, Jack Purvis, Malcolm Dixon, Mike Edmonds, and especially David Rappaport as rascally leader Randall are all extremely personable as the dwarfs. A real treat.

begob A boy ditches tedious reality for dangerous fantasy.Lovely story that includes all the best elements of Monty Python, but without the dull class-based humour. And for once I enjoyed something with midgets.It goes through episodes, each very imaginative, and ends up with a broad assessment of the meaning of life - plus a little jab at the god botherers.Outstanding scene is the cage-swinging in the dark abyss. Low point in the Michael Palin scenes on the Titanic - I guess Gilliam had to suffer interference.Brazil is Gilliam's best, but this is a pleasure too. Point docked because of Palin.