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Summary: A Thumping Good Film
Review: I'll try not to gush too much over this film. It's been my favorite for about 4 or 5 years, so it's hard not to. The plot is funny, yet thoughtful at the same time, playing with the idea of "what if god left some things undone, having created the world in only 7 days?" the dialogue is cynical and ironic, at times. The cast list is wonderful. Contrary to the information that Sean Connery stars in this, he does not. He is simply the most well-known. His part isn't insignifigant exactly, but not that big. The real star of the film is, well, everyone, come to think of it. Python fanatics, such as myself, will be entertained with appearances by John Cleese and Michael Palin, both of whom have probably the funniest scenes in the whole film. Though the language gets vulgar a few times, it is an altogether wonderful film that everyone can watch.
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Summary: Okay, But Saw It Too Many Times and Got Really Tired Of It!!
Review: I saw this numerous times on HBO in the 80's and I taped it for myself and also taped it for my nephew and niece, I liked it but after my nephew and niece watched it over and over again I got really tired of it and the last time I tried watching it I got really bored and couldn't watch the rest of it, so I wound up taping over my Time Bandits Tape! Though it's not a movie I want in my video collection I might rent it or if it was on TV I might watch it if I was in a mood to watch an 80's movie, and after years of not having seen it maybe I will like it again and it will seem refreshing to me as my nephew and niece will not be constantly watching it over and over again!
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Summary: Definitely anti-Christian
Review: Very boring, depressing and confusing movie. Definitely anti-Christian, perhaps even anti-religion. Not a movie for anyone who has a positive, optimistic outlook.
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Summary: Great fantasy
Review: If you like "Labyrinth" or "The Dark Crystal" this is a movie you must see !! It's great fun and got a great story about a boy who travells through time using timeholes which are marked on a map which has been stolen from God by some thiefes who used to be his servants... Great history lesson with Sean Connery and John Cleese !! A MUST for every fantasy and comedy fan !!!!
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Summary: A Highly Entertaining Cult Classic
Review: Time Bandits is a movie that has captured my imagingation since I was a littile boy. It may be one of the most original movies ever made. A group of misfit midgets, who formerly worked for God, scour time and space with the use of a map to rob the worlds richests figures while evading the devil. While it is written by some of the writers of Monty Python it can easily be enjoyed by those who don't get British humor. The story is excellent and the characters are unique. It is a great fantasy movie that both children and adults will love. This does not refer to any particular format.
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Summary: BEWARE FAKE WIDESCREEN!
Review: This Criterion version of Time Bandits contains one of the most shameful practices to be found in DVD production--fake widescreen. For whatever reason, instead of putting the film in true widescreen format, they simply slapped black bars across the top and bottom of an already "modified" version of the film. So in the end, not only do you miss out on what's going on in the sides of the picture, but also in the top and bottom!!! A rip-off and a shame, because this is a great movie.
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Summary: HOW COULD SO MUCH ENTERTAINMENT FIT IN JUST ONE MOVIE?
Review: For those who think that they haven't seen "Time Bandits": you're probably wrong. I was surprised at how many of the scenes I remembered and remembered loving: Robin Hood misenterpreting the gang's spoils as a gift for the poor, teaching the monster that stretching can help his bad back, little people and a small child hanging in cages over infinite blackness in the dungeon of Evil, and the final military confrontation with Evil in his weird red outfit and hat/helmet. Terry Gilliam has a way with fantasy and a way with humor not to be matched. Nothing that happens is ever expected, the humor's always a bit odd, and all the while the magic of the story and its varied fantastic settings leaves the viewer spellbound. "Time Bandits" is fun for kids and even more fun for twisted, cynical adults.Follow "Time Bandits" with a quick hit of "Brazil" and then a viewing of "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." Terry Gilliam calls the three his dream trilogy, and I must say that those three films are better than any trilogy that George Lucas has yet made or plans to make. The movies leave a person with the feeling of being in an off-center waking dream, and when the ending credits are reached the disappointment of losing that little fantasy world is palpable. Gilliam is a master of the craft of film-making.
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Summary: What the hell
Review: This was a horible movie. It has no plot little action and is boring as hell. The end makes no sence and the whole movie is long and boring
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Summary: Overstuffed and over the top, and wildly wonderful
Review: This is like confessing to bad taste, like enjoying banana splits with 8 scoops of different ice cream and three sauces, plus nuts, cherries and a paper parasol. Time Bandits is one funny, over the top comedy with lots of ideas (perhaps too many of them) that just keep coming right up to the rather odd end. The plot is loose; a band of dwarves steal a map of time holes left by their boss The Supreme Being (a school headmasterly Ralph Richardson.) They are already in some hot water with the Boss, having made some out-of-spec trees that are bright pink and smell just terrible. They are also being chased by The Power of Evil, played by David Warner who infuses the Devil with a sense of real humor. The Power of Evil is fairly critical the Creator's efforts (he's contemptuous of slugs, nipples for men and other questionable developments of nature.) He's smitten with technology and longs to hear about lasers, fast breeder reactors and computers. The film romps through time, space and a lot of amusing scenes. There's a great cameo by Sean Connery as Agamemmnon, and much more. If you like Monty Python, you might or might not like this film. It's no Holy Grail, but it is creative as only Terry Gilliam can be. Personally, it's one of my favorites.
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Summary: Don't read this review if you don't like spoilers
Review: O.K., one thing I really didn't like about this film: the ending. While some reviwers have raved about it, I found it totally confusing. After Kevin's parents unwisley ignore his advice not to touch the evil thing and are vaporized, (parents! They never listen!) the firemen just sort of smile and then drive off, like if watching people get vaporized and thier children orphaned is something they see every day, and then the boy is left standing there with no family, and then that's all, folks. Now, I think it's good to have a film that once in a while has an ending that's not nessissarily a happy one, but to have certain charecters, like in this case the firemen, act in some unbeliveable way, and then to just leave us wondering,"What happens to the kid?" is in my book unforgivable. Was the writer smoking pot when he got to the ending? Otherwise, I found this to be an entertaining comic fantasy.
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