Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam’s ‘Time Bandits’ is an incredibly joyous kids movie that just gets more fun as you go through. This kind of time travel movie isn’t anything too original, but the way Gilliam did it makes it seem like something special. As a start, the structure of the film works extremely well. Rather than choosing where you travel to, it seemed like the method of time travel in Time Bandits worked quite well with this. So, going through different time periods in this way seemed to make more sense, and with Gilliam’s general over the top method, the chaos was certainly prominent. This was supported by the characters, while the kid is definitely different, the dwarves seemed to start out seeming to all be the same characters. However, as I went along, it started to seem that the characters were more different, which was a shame that the characters weren’t explored to their full potential until much later. While the characters may be fun, the acting was somewhat stiff. For the most part, the dwarves were okay, but the kid became annoying for me quite quickly. Part of that was due to the weak dialogue, almost every line that comes out of that kid’s mouth is some sort of dumb question. There was an entire scene that seemed to play out like a Q and A session from comic con, which was frustrating. Nevertheless, it was certainly a fun movie, and as a huge Monty Python fan, seeing numerous members pop up in various roles was fun. And the entertainment value is quite high, however, don’t expect much. 7.2/10