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09/22/08
Time Bandits (1982)
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Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 30
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus: Time Bandits is a remarkable time-travel fantasy from Terry Gilliam, who utilizes fantastic set design and homemade special effects to create a vivid, original universe.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six... [More]
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, Shelley Duvall
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Reviews for Time Bandits
Top Critic
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.
03/19/08
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.
06/05/07
When you can count the laughs in a comedy on the fingers of one hand, it isn't so funny.
06/05/07
Top Critic 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.
06/05/07
Top Critic
For a kids film this is pleasingly dark with Gilliam delivering as much classical fairy tale as knockabout comedy.
08/30/06
Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.
06/24/06
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.
10/23/04
Top Critic A cheerfully irreverent lark -- part fairy tale, part science fiction and part comedy.
08/30/04
Top Critic
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.
02/16/04
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