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...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 is escaping its skewed ad campaign...
...Force dispatched two Jet-Stars and a C-9 transport to gather the Presidents. Joe Canzeri, the White House's wizard on transportation arrangements, began a frantic 48 hours of orchestration. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was official leader of the party, so he got the "Presidential Suite" on board 26000 ("The diplomatic way out," joked Haig). Irony flashed through the minds of the arrangers. Two cabins behind Haig would ride Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for whom Haig had worked as a lesser aide. Such is the span of fleeting power...
...squandering proceeds apace. In 1939 MGM spent $1.2 million to make The Wizard of Oz; in 1981 Orion Pictures has devoted $17 million to a modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays...
...frame or two from within a shot to increase the impact. With prominent display of Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo, a Neptune two-man submarine and a "Jim" diving suit, For Your Eyes Only is an accumulation of gadgets and brand names-a Radio Shack of a boy wizard's dreams...
...pace that must seem stately to tots reared on TV cartoons and the current batch of Saturday matinee-type features. It rarely ascends into exhilaration or slumps into camp. The direction of some actors is pedestrian, if not oafish. But as a lavish vehicle for the talents of Effects Wizard Ray Harryhausen, Clash offers delights to the eye and spirit of every moviegoing adult who has wanted to revisit the dreams of his youth...