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Time Bandits

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In Terry Gilliam's fantastic voyage through time and space, a boy escapes from his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. On their journey, they visit Napoleon (Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese) and King Agamemnon (Sean Connery), among other popular figures. It's a giddy, visually outrageous fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson and a satire on technology gone awry -- all wrapped into one adventure.
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Netflix Rating: 3.5
Rotten Tomatoes: Fresh 94%
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.
Fresh: 34   Rotten: 2   Rotten Tomatoes page
Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics

Perhaps the greatest characteristic attributable to Time Bandits is its sense of invention. The movie does so many things, all of them well. full review

James Berardinelli, ReelViews

When you can count the laughs in a comedy on the fingers of one hand, it isn't so funny. full review

Variety Staff, Variety

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. full review

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

A cheerfully irreverent lark -- part fairy tale, part science fiction and part comedy. full review

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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. full review

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
full review by David Ansen, Newsweek
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