Time Bandits Themes

Let's face it: we've all wanted to be able to just pull a hole out of thin air and vanish into it—no more cares, worries, or responsibilities. Well, in Time Bandits, Kevin and the dwarves are act...

Folks, there's a character in Time Bandits actually named Evil, so you can bet there's going to be a cosmic balancing act going on in this baby.In the movie, God totally claims at the end that the...

Kevin and King Agamemnon are really the only two characters in Time Bandits who aren't blithering idiots. There, we said it.We mean, look at Napoleon, or Robin Hood, or Winston and his wife. Don't...

Time is almost a place in Time Bandits: it's a set of destinations on a map that the dwarves move to one by one. It's very much a kid's notion of what traveling through time would be like. You get...

In Time Bandits, Evil has plans. The Supreme Being has plans. The dwarves have plans. Agamemnon, Napoleon, Robin Hood? They all have pretty strong ideas about what they want to do and how the world...

What's real and what's not in Time Bandits? Is Kevin just dreaming all this up? If he's not, then what the heck kind of reality do we live in? Well, if you ask this movie, the reality we live in is...