Time Bandits (1982)
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond
Screenwriter: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin
Composer: George Harrison, Trevor Jones, Mike Moran
Producer: Terry Gilliam
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It's a film for kids that adults really will enjoy. A feast for the eyes with great gags and an intelligent and well realised morality.
This film is unusually dark for a modern children's film. At times a grimly comic fairy tale, Time Bandits offers little reassurance. It's a tough world out there--even in our imaginative life. Perhaps that is why we need heroes so badly.
When you can count the laughs in a comedy on the fingers of one hand, it isn't so funny.
The film is resolutely, passionately antiadult, yet much of the humor has an adult sophistication and edge to it; this is one kids' movie that doesn't condescend.
For a kids film this is pleasingly dark with Gilliam delivering as much classical fairy tale as knockabout comedy.
Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.
Amazingly well-produced. The historic locations are jammed with character and detail. This is the only live-action movie I've seen that literally looks like pages out of Heavy Metal magazine.
A cheerfully irreverent lark -- part fairy tale, part science fiction and part comedy.
It's amazing how the homemade special effects of this comparatively low-budget picture are still effective today -- even more so than many computerized effects.
One of the most visually inventive movies of all time, rapturously entertaining.
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