Time Bandits

Time Bandits is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1982.
== Description ==
The quality that most accurately sums up the Monty Python brand of scatty humour it its glorius impudence. It is no respecter of persons, period of piety. Time Bandits is not an exclusively Python movie, but with Terry Gilliam directing and co-scripting it with Micheal Palin, the farcical and often spectacularly ingenious fantasy it depicts is sustained by the same sense of the absurd that has informed the Python style of comedy since its inception as a TV series. It covers a much broader spectrum than Life of Brain and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and is all the more enjoyable because of it. The 11-year-old hero (Craig Warnock) dreams an invasion of amiable, rascally dwards, absconding employees of the Supreme Being, who take him on an exhilarating journey through time and space. As might be expected, the giants of history and legend turn out to be expected, the giants of history and legend turn out to be engging eccentrics. Napoleon (Ian Holm) is positively paranoid about his lack of inches to the exclusion of all other pressing matters. Robin Hood (John Cleese) is a dainty dandy who adresses the peasants like an upper-crust Tory politician canvassing votes in a deprived constituency.
Agamemnon (Sean Connery) is a bluff father-figure who amuses himself by performing conjuring tricks. The Devil (David Warner) is a fussy menace with a marvellous armoury od dirty tricks. The Ogre (Peter Vaughan) is a finicky hypochondriac, and the Supreme Being is Ralph Richardson in a patty business suit who ultimate;y exercises his authority with th weary exasperation of sorely tried headmaster. Threading through the limbo of time are a pair of exquisitely timid lovers (Michael Palin and Shelley Duvall), trapped in untenable situations, ambushed by medieval outlaws or sinking with the Titanic. As young Craig Warnock communicates perfectly that sense of wonder and blind belief that makes the impossible possible, the film conjures up some splendidly witty special effects.
Time Bandits is a scrumptious treat which caters to the kid in all of us -- and there's a lot of it about.
MARGARET HINXMAN
== Cast ==
* Craig Warnock as Kevin
* David Rappaport as Randall
* Kenny Baker as Fidgit
* Malcolm Dixon as Strutter
* Mike Edmonds as Og
* Jack Purvis as Wally
* Tiny Ross as Vermin
* Sean Connery as Agamemnon/Fireman
* David Warner as Evil
* Shelley Duvall as Pansy
* Ian Holm as Napoleon
* Michael Palin as Vincent
* Ralph Richardson as Supreme Being
* Peter Vaughan as Winston the Ogre
* Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Ogre
* John Cleese as Robin Hood
* Derek Deadman as Robert
* Jerold Wells as Benson
* David Daker as Kevin's father
* Sheila Fearn as Kevin's mother
* Jim Broadbent as Compere
* Tony Jay (voice) as the Supreme Being
* Terence Bayler as Lucien
* Preston Lockwood as Neguy
* Derrick O'Connor as Redgrave
* Neil McCarthy as Marion
* Frank Converse as Dim
* Ian Muir as the Giant
Category:VHS
Category:UK VHS Releases
Category:1982 VHS Releases
Category:Thorn EMI Video logo from 1982 to 1985
Category:BBFC PG
Category:Movies
Category:Comedy Videos by Thorn EMI Video