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Title:
Time Bandits
Region:
One
Genre:
Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Stars:
Jim Broadbent, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian
Holm, Michael Palin, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, David
Rappaport, Kenny Baker, Jack Purvis, Mike Edmonds, Malcolm Dixon, Tiny Ross, and
Craig Warnock
Writers:
Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam
Director:
Terry Gilliam
Feature
length: 116 minutes
Languages:
English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
N/A
Packaging:
Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 23
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 1981/UMD Release: 2005
Theatrical
Distributor: Handmade Films
Home
Video Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: PG
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
“Time
Bandits” is a wonderful fantasy story that will appeal to adults as well as
children about a boy (Craig Warnock) who accompanies six little thieves through
time holes left in the fabric of the universe. The Supreme Being is tracking
them wherever they go because they stole the map from him. From an encounter
with Napoleon (Ian Holm) to an encounter with a rather pompous Robin Hood (John
Cleese), our time travelers encounter various misadventures that lead them into
direct confrontation with Evil incarnate (David Warner) and his Fortress of
Ultimate Darkness. Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits” would go on to earn
approximately 47 million dollars in the States, making it his most profitable
film produced. The film consciously and unconsciously calls to mind elements of
C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe” and “The Wizard Of
Oz” and the elements where we see suburban English parents talking about the
latest household appliances they don’t need while watching exploitive game
shows seems almost prophetic. The obsession with technology as the answer to all
problems and the fact that in the film technology usually fails the characters
seems somewhat of a precursor to what one sees in Gilliam’s masterpiece
“Brazil.” David Warner’s “Evil” being is at once both menacing and
humorous and is the perfect counterbalance to Ralph Richardson’s regal, but
perhaps deceptively absent minded “Supreme Being.” David Rappaport, Kenny
Baker, Jack Purvis, Mike Edmonds, Malcolm Dixon, and Tiny Ross are truly the
stars of the film because they are given characters that are more entertaining
and at times more human than the child’s parents and some of the historical
caricatures encountered in the film.
The
special effects still look pretty good. Ian Holm would play Napoleon on the big
screen again in the film “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” David Warner has
made a career in genre films and television on both sides of the Atlantic with
appearances in “Star Trek” movies and television, “Tron,” “Babylon
5,” “John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness,” and “Titanic.”
Anchor Bay Entertainment presents Time Bandits” as one of the distributors
first UMD for PSP releases with a 16 by 9 presentation that is clean, bright,
and colorful too. An English Stereo Soundtrack is included, but no subtitles
have been encoded at all. The interactive menu is very rudimentary. There is no
scene selection menu, but one can manually pass through the chapters using the
button on their PSP remote or the unit itself. “Time Bandits” is available
on UMD for PSP now courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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