Time Bandits (1981)

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7	IMDB rating

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Terry Gilliam

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John Cleese
Robin Hood

Sean Connery
King Agamemnon / Fireman

Shelley Duvall
Dame Pansy / Pansy

Katherine Helmond
Mrs. Ogre

Ian Holm
Napoleon

Michael Palin
Vincent

Ralph Richardson
Supreme Being

Peter Vaughan
Winston the Ogre

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Time Bandits

6 years, 5 months ago at Feb 25 22:25

JxSxPx

1 vote

Query: would eccentric be the best word to describe Terry Gilliam’s films?

Sometimes to a fault, and sometimes to joyous effect, Gilliam’s work is always distinctly his. And Time Bandits is a combination of both his best and worst tendencies. The episodic film is only engaging in small parts, a total bore in others, but consistently trying to create something original.
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An average movie

5 years, 8 months ago at Nov 14 10:41

johanlefourbe

1 vote

Since I have always been interested in Terry Gilliam’s work, I was really eager to check this flick. Basically, it is another cult classic directed by Gilliam but, to be honest, I wasn’t completely blown away by the whole thing. Indeed, like many other movies coming from this interesting director, I thought that it was visually impressive but I actually had a rather hard time to connect with t... read more

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Kevin, an imaginative child, goes on a time-travelling adventure with a bunch of treasure-hunting dwarves, who have "borrowed" a map to the Universe's time holes from The Supreme Being

Release date: 16 July 1981
UPC: 013131068597

Tags: Comedy (21), Fantasy (20), Time Travel (18), Adventure (15), Sci-fi (10), 1980s (8), British (7), Napoleon (6), 1981 (6), Robin Hood (6), (6), Surreal (5), Titanic (5), Mystery (4), Family (4), Magic (4), God (4), Theft (4), Midgets (4), Thriller (3)

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"Re-watch - Aug. 22nd I've been trying to get my daughter to watch Time Bandits with me for a while now, so I was glad when she finally picked it up and handed it to me to put on. It's been at least 10 years since I last saw it, which meant it was able to work its magic on me very well. She really enjoyed it and kept talking about it after it ended, which is a good sign. While she's too young for most of Gilliam's work, I felt this would be a good introduction and will probably watch Baron Munch"

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