Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
When you can count the laughs in a comedy on the fingers of one hand, it isn't so funny.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-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.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
A cheerfully irreverent lark -- part fairy tale, part science fiction and part comedy.
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Perhaps the greatest characteristic attributable to Time Bandits is its sense of invention. The movie does so many things, all of them well.
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Cast
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John Cleeseas Robin Hood -
Sean Conneryas Agamemnon -
Shelley Duvallas Pansy
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Katherine Helmondas Mrs. Ogre -
Ian Holmas Napolean -
Michael Palinas Vincent




