If our reality is depressing now, and Kevin's was, is the fulfillment of our fantasies any better? Perhaps Randall said it best himself - "Heroes, bah! What do they know about an honest day's work?" :. Ah, you always knew He was an staid Englishman in a pinstripe suit, didn't you? "Dead? No excuse for laying off work." Perhaps it's not Gilliam's masterpiece, as "Brazil" could be argued for that.though one could also argue "Time Bandits" gives a bleaker perspective through the contrast of the fun and whimsy.
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Napoleon as a height-obsessed drunkard? Robin Hood as the aloof, unlikely leader of a band of violent, too-merry men? Agamemnon as the ideal father figure? It's all here, plus the technocratic, pyromaniac "Evil" vs.
The plot's out of nowhere-just kind of trips along through time and space and stranger things. Having studied the form of the fantasy as explained by Tolkien myself, Gilliam obviously understands how it works.Of course, because it works, "Time Bandits" is just plain fun. Plus, the danger of the story doesn't stop at him, as shown by the rather sobering finale. the "stinking Kevin" line just makes me howl! He's also not that cute, which is a rarity with child actors and which sinks most films with them. Most of the other characters don't like him that much even. He's not anyone spectacular, aside from an active imagination over and above his banal parents, and he really doesn't contribute much to the story-it simply passes him by. Ultimately this is a very British film which speaks to lonely idealists everywhere.
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God, played by Ralph Richardson as an intimidating schoolmaster, assures us that he is in control but that misery and suffering are all that we can expect "something to do with free will" and Kevin's troubles have only begun. The film gathers momentum towards the inevitable showdown between good and evil but Gilliam leaves this disturbingly inconclusive. At this stage we are introduced to David Warner's deliciously over-acted 'evil genius' a Satan obsessed with modern technology but, ironically, surrounded by decay and incompetence, who plots to entrap the time travellers.
The innocent Kevin played by a child actor deliberately selected for his shyness finds himself swept into company even more mindlessly greedy than that of his parents'. As Gilliam explains in his DVD commentary, by casting small people as the bandits, led by the delightfully arrogant David Rappaport, he hoodwinks the audience into swallowing their extreme cupidity. Only in mythical Greece does Kevin come close to realising his dreams.The film retains a dark edge throughout. Napoleon is crippled by an inferiority complex stemming from his small stature Robin Hood is a patronising liar and his 'merry men' are a bunch of violent filthy animals.
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Kevin, meanwhile, is a romantic who, until the fateful night the Time Bandits arrive in his bedroom, can only live out his fantasies in history books.But history turns out not to be all it's cracked up to be. Kevin's parents don't eat anything which hasn't come out of a microwave or blender and are too precious even to remove the plastic wrapping from their hideous three-piece suite.
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