a funny, weird cameo-filled caper that finds value even in vice, and lets wild imagination ultimately win out over drab reality.

| Aug 9, 2023

The film lacks what Garland, Lahr, Haley, Bolger, et al, had in abundance: humanity and charm.

| Oct 22, 2018

Time Bandits is one of Gilliam's more chaotic films, which is really saying something, but his six time-bandits fill the screen with fractious energy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2014

Adults will get this movie, but kids won't.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2010

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

| Jun 5, 2007

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.

| Jun 5, 2007

For a kids film this is pleasingly dark with Gilliam delivering as much classical fairy tale as knockabout comedy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2006

Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.

| Jun 24, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

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

| Aug 30, 2004