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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Excellent For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1981 DVD Release: 05/11/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 55 mins Studio: Anchor Bay Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy, Fantasy Adventure See Also: Time Bandits [Special Edition] [Criterion Collection], Time Bandits [Divimax], Time Bandits [UMD for PSP]

A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Particularly amusing are the boy's encounters with various historical figures, including an entertainment-starved Napoleon (Ian Holm), a powerful Agamemnon (Sean Connery), and a surprisingly stuffy Robin Hood, embodied by Gilliam's Python cohort John Cleese. Episodic by nature, the film is less successful when dealing with the larger narrative, which concerns the pursuit of the dwarves and their time-traveling map by the Supreme Being. However, the combination of Gilliam's visual exuberance and the witty script (by Gilliam and Michael Palin) ensures an entertaining, if erratic, journey. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

John Cleese - Robin Hood
Sean Connery - Agamemnon
Shelley Duvall - Pansy
Katherine Helmond - Mrs. Ogre
Ian Holm - Napolean

Terry Gilliam's time-travel adventure Time Bandits comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are neither subtitles nor closed captions on this release. Supplemental materials include theatrical trailers and biographies of the cast and crew. This is a decent disc from Anchor Bay, but those with a passion for the film are encouraged to find the Criterion release of the film because it is loaded with extras. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide