cinemajesty Movie Review: "Time Bandits" (1981)An highly-original script by Monty Python member Michael Palin and directing Terry Gilliam, who gathers sublime supporting actors including Ian Holm as Napoleon Bonaparte, Sean Connery as King Agamemnon, John Cleese as Robin Hood and Ralph Richardson (1902-1983) as Supreme Being (as to say God for those, who want to believe in it). This strictly-entertaining picture of such unimaginable high creative values under a fully-independent approximately Five-Million-Pound production budget, which looks at times like a hundred million with 90-foot giants walking the ocean of the world after sinking the "Titanic", when dwarves surrounding exceptional team acting by Malcolm Dixon, Kenny Baker (1934-2016) among others carry the show on their shoulders through time zones of the known and unknown alike with a magic blue map of infinity in a 105 minutes of non-stop connecting imaginarium by director Terry Gilliam, who seems to be blessed at that time of reception to fulfill his directorial vision of Good vs. Evil in defining cinematic signatures fully-owned.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

oOoBarracuda From the mind of the man who brought us Monty Python, Terry Gilliam, comes the 1981 film Time Bandits. A misfit group of time travelers joined by a little boy bring to life eras in history with wonderful designs and detail. With cover art that is a brilliant mix of Dali and Kandinsky, Time Bandits is a film that has to be enjoyed at least once.Feeling increasingly more neglected by his technology-obsessed parents, Kevin (Craig Warnock) seeks solace alone, often tucked away in his room. One evening his room is crashed by a gang of misfit time travelers, international criminals (in training) who have stolen a map with all the time holes marked on it. These time holes will help them pop into a time period, steal whatever they wish, and jump into another time period before they can be caught. Along the way, Kevin runs into many of the people he has always read about in books during his alone time. Among those he meets are an endearing Robin Hood (John Cleese), the imposing King Agamemnon (Sean Connery), and the ever self- conscious Napoleon (Ian Holm). Traveling with his new troupe brings about some danger and not just in their missions alone. As it turns out, the gang is also constantly jumping away from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) that they stole the map from in the first place. Time hopping was instrumental for Kevin to escape his ignored life at home, and finding just the right gang of misfits was more than he could ever imagine, and a group he didn't want to let go of.Time Bandits was a fun movie both for its plot, and production design. Each time in history that they jumped to was full of detail and thoroughly designed. I think of this movie as a good version of Forrest Gump. The group jumped around from time to time, yet maintained a story and was engaging. I doubt I will see this film too many more times, but it was a fun one to watch!

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.

gavin6942 A young boy accidentally joins a band of dwarfs as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.Upon my first viewing, I didn't much care for this film. Not sure why, but it definitely did not appeal to me. Even with all the Monty Python folks involved (including John Cleese as Robin Hood), I wasn't sold.On second viewing, I love it. The costumes, the characters... and with Blu-ray, the film looks better than ever before. There are some elements of fantasy similar to "Legend" or other films of the era, but executed better here and with that quirky sense that Gilliam had before he went mainstream.