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...grown used to bursts of the unexpected from Monty Python, and the scene is from Time Bandits, a scii/historical adventure directed by Python's Terry Gilliam. Interspersing such moments with a script of Disneyesque fantasy, Time Bandits is like having Woody Allen and Sam Peckinpaugh co-direct The Sound of Music. Gilliam has taken the Pythonic theme that everything you know is wrong, and concocted a children's fable owing not a little to The Wizard of Oz. There are drags and snags in the plot, suspense, and humor, but the movie is a modest success; the largest difficulty ooming...
...screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of the original Flash Gordon: yet it remains an underwhelming story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across...
Benita C. Gilliam, Secretary The Bishop of St. Albans Hertfordshire, England...
Like any good rock band, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) stroked their audience with familiar stuff: the Argument Clinic, the Pet Shop (received with a roar of recognition and approval, their Greatest Hit, as it were), Nudge-Nudge, the Travel Agency, the Four Yorkshiremen, all of them done handily, wittily--and almost exactly like their records and TV shows. There were a few miscued lines, and Cleese and Palin broke up unexpectedly at the end of the Pet Shop routine, but most of the evening was predictable. Their new material...
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle...