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Time Bandits (runtime 1:55:56) - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2026-09-05 13:00:08
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Time Bandits (runtime 1:55:56) - Patreon Version

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Garth Mindfeather

thanks for this! hope you're inspired to do the whole so-called trilogy ... (coming of age, coming of middle age, coming of old age)

Mr. Writhms

Director Terry Gilliam, along with John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman (R.I.P.), are part of the Monty Python comedy troop. They spawned from a popular TV series, "Monty Python's Flying Circus", followed by some hilarious movies. You've already seen 'Holy Grail. I hope you check out the others. TIME BANDITS was written by Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin. This movie has the Monty Python comedy fingerprints all over it.

pinkdino99

80s kids movies... we had Legend. We had Dark Crystal. And we had this ! Monty Python was utterly anti-establishment. Gilliam did all of the cartoons and appeared as Patsy and the Bridge Keeper in Holy Grail and the jailer in Life of Brian, but his passion was to create movies. He and Terry Jones fought over the director's chair in the first two Python films (you can easily recognise the scenes in Holy Grail that Gilliam set up as they are so cinematic). Then came Meaning of Life and Gilliam was given permission to make a "short" movie to introduce the main film. He returned with 1hr 40 mins of footage and had blown half their budget. So it was a relief for him to get out on his own and make this absolute masterclass in subversive British fantasy. Well done for noticing that everything we see in the "dream" is on Kevin's floor or walls. After a Royal movie premiere, everyone would line up (like at a wedding) to get a handshake and a few words with whichever Royal happened to be there. Cleese based his Robin Hood on Prince Charles. Fidgit was played by Kenny Baker - R2D2. They don't make em' like this anymore !

Thomas Yanez

You have three very different movies from Terry Gilliam under your belt now. I think you're ready for "Brazil" (1985). Just make sure you go with Terry Gilliam's preferred version, the European/Director's Cut (144 minutes). Whatever you do, do NOT watch the "Love Conquers All" version (94 minutes) for your first viewing. Please.

Hans Engelen

Paul Vaughan you should know, aka Master Aemon from GoT

Lee N.

More of my childhood memories; I'm so happy to see y'all enjoyed this classic. Trivia: Kenny Baker, who played Fidget, also played R2D2 in the Star Wars franchise.

Dennis B

Zero Theorem is insane!

Dennis B

Terry Gilliam also made The Zero Theorem , The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Brazil... and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. All of these film of a very high psychedelic factor with a large dose of insanity and absurdism. So i'd recommend them all. :)

David Harvey

Hi Chandra and Jordan, I just watched your reaction of "Time Bandits". I loved how amazed you were! To make sense of the wonderful whirlpool of Terry Gilliam's bizarre world you often have to see the underlying critique of society in his films. So while see this journey through the imagination and eyes of the little boy, Gilliam reinforces it through his love of reading, history, tales, fables, and myths that are opposed to his parents sterile existence sitting on plastic covered furniture watching games shows on the television, with their latest kitchen gadget (remember at the end it contains evit that kills them). Evil (wonderfully performed by David Wagner) is obsessed with plastic, computers, and lasers. The Time Bandits are the magic of chaos and imagination that take the boy on this adventure. It all wraps up in the end with the boy back in his room filled with smoke and all of his things from his world being destroyed. He's rescued by Sean Connery (the real Father figure) who saves the poloraids of his adventure and returns them to the boy with a wink, after his parents are blown up from their evil roast. Terry Gilliam almost always evokes a Myth or Fable in his films as the lens to view society in. Cheers! Dave

Joe Lazarus

This was one of my fav fantasy films from the 80s along with "The Ice Pirates" 1984 which is HILARIOUS and I hope you consider adding it to the list!!!

stephane

I love your reactions for movies and you are deffo my favourite reactions channel! I love, absolutely love this amazing movie from Terry Gilliam - and yes you must watch Brazil!!!- Let me tell you. When I was a 16 year old teenager, I did show this movie to my lovely nephew, he was around 7 or 8. We watched it on VHS and he just absolutely fell in love with this movie - as he did with Superman the Movie the moment he saw the first flight sequence he was mesmerised!- he watched it like 50 or 100 times and it just totally ignited his love of movies! And the most amazing thing is that after watching the movie a few times, my nephew started to invent and tell me the continuation story, and invented the rest of the story. It was an incredible moment of bonding between us and how movies or books can just totally ignite the creative and imaginative mind of young child. It is the magic of this movie. Over 40 years after, it remains one of the most thrilling, imaginative, creative, fun movies ever. I actually shudder at the ideas they seem to be creating a tv series "adapted" from this movie...Please don't do that! This movie is perfect!

Prof Moff

oh I haven't seen this for sooooo long. I had completely forgotten just odd it is but fun

David Patterson

My personal take on the ending is: Fidget was pushing for Kevin to be rewarded. The death of his awful parents was, in a very twisted way, was his reward.

David Patterson

Fidget was played by Kenny Baker, who played the walking version of R2D2 in Star Wars Episodes 1 through 6

James M

The common factor in Gilliam's work is Surrealism. Some of his movies are better than others. This is nice, but it doesn't match the strength of "Brazil" or "12 Monkeys". I suppose it was made sort of like a kids movie, but I did not show it to my kids, and I was no longer a child when it was made. To me it has far too many violent ideas to be a good kids movie.

pinkdino99

"Well they don't have a two-speed hedge trimmer..." - absolutely scathing critique of 80s Britishness.

Jeffrey Fisher

You need to do a part 3 with Krull and Beastmaster. I'm sure everyone here can find at least 2 more. Maybe Dragonslayer? Definitely Conan the Destroyer if you don't watch it otherwise.

Thomas Yanez

I agree with "Conan the Destroyer" now that "King Conan" is officially in development. I hope it survives the process to make it into production.

OddThomas

Taika Waititi made a Time Bandits TV series recently for Apple and while it's nowhere near as good as the film, I found it enjoyable - mostly because of Lisa Kudrow as the head bandit.

Michael Nemo

Funded by one of The Beatles.

Over50Gamer

Loved loved LOOOOVED watching this with you two! From the beginning where Kevin is reading history while his couch potato parents blather on about keeping up with the Joneses, to the ending with George Harrison's end credit song Dream Away, this is a great comedy adventure! Even though I'm American, i was exposed to and loved so much of British shows and culture that I swear I should have grown up in London, and I loved growing up with this movie among all else. Also, Sean Connery makes a great Agamemnon.

Barry

I vote yes on Krull, Beastmaster, Dragonslayer and Conan the Destroyer.

Barry

The Ice Pirates (1984) has my vote as 80s sci-fi. It has a very similar feal.

Barry

I haven't watched this movie in years. I forgot wild and imaginative it is. I also forgot how Evil's lair was modelled after Kevin's room. Did you recognize David Warner, who played Evil, who also played Dillinger/Sark in Tron (1982)? Yes, that was Bilbo/Ash from Alien (Ian Holm). This is the first time I recognized Ralph Richardson, the Supreme Being, as the actor who plays the wizard Ulrich in Dragonslayer (1981). I'm looking forward to more 80s fantasy.

MaplenutsReact

Sean Connery DOES make a great Agamemnon....I think he might make a great anything though!

MaplenutsReact

I'm always down for more Conan! and more 80s fantasy!

David Harvey

Hi Chandra and Jordan - The Cinema Shorthand Society is a Facebook page that posts daily with profiles and backstory articles on films, actors, and directors. Today they posted a great one on actor Ian Holm who played Napoleon in Time Bandits. Enjoy! ""Alexander the Great, five feet eight exactly. Isn't that incredible! I mean, Alexander the Great, who's empire stretched from India to Hungary, one inch shorter than me. Oliver Cromwell, the only man with any guts in British history, wasn't a big man at all. Louis XIV, five foot two and a half. Charlamagne, dopey little five footer! He's a good little chum. Attila the Hun, five foot one half. Cyrano de Bergerac, five foot three half. Tamburlaine the Great, four foot nine - and three-quarters." Terry Gilliam laughed so hard during the shooting of the table scene in "Time Bandits" (1981) with forty-nine year old Ian Holm as twenty-six year old Napoleon Bonaparte, that he eventually had to leave the set, in order not to ruin any takes of said scene. Holm has played Napoleon Bonaparte three times in "Napoleon and Love" (1974), "Time Bandits" (1981), and "The Emperor's New Clothes" (2001), and was a front-runner for the role in Stanley Kubrick's unproduced biography. In 1959, Holm's stage partner Laurence Olivier scored a hit on Ian Holm in a sword fight in a production of "Coriolanus". Holm still has a scar on his finger. After directing him in "Henry V" (1989), Kenneth Branagh defined Holm's acting style as "Anything you can do, I can do less of." "I've always been a minimalist. It was (Humphrey) Bogart who once said, 'If you think the right thoughts, the camera will pick it up.' The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there." (IMDb) Happy Birthday, Ian Holm!" Cheers! Dave