I watched this film when it was first released and was awe struck by it .....I'm now 59 years old and have revisted it on many occassions, including with my own children, I cannot explain why, but not only is it one of my all time favourite films, but this song always without fail takes me back to a simpler time .... and also never fails to elicit a tear.
Oh my. This song was PERFECT for the credits of this movie. It just enhanced what you had just seen. I remember staying until it stopped. it was so relaxing to just sit in the cool theater and listen to this after having just watched the film. made you almost relive the whole film over. I wish they have made a part 2 like terry wanted to.
I saw this movie as a kid. It all made sense to me back then and never forgot any of it. Recently I had the pleasure of introducing my son to the movie. The look of happiness in his face said it all ❤️
I remember meeting Kenny Baker at a convention. Apparently i was one of the extremely few who was more interested in his stories about Time Bandits than Star Wars. He even performed "Me and My Shadow " for me and my friends. A very gracious and funny fellow.
mcbillygoat I have always found the background vocals on this particular song to be intoxicating. I believe it is the voice of Syreeta Wright, R.I.P. to both her and George.
ive just given every1 on this page an extra thumbs up lol.. yes what an amazing film and song a lump in the throat at the end when this song plays...29 years old this film i was only 6 but hey happy memoirs xxxxx
The initial melody works well as an outro song for when the cinema lights go up and people leave the theater. Makes you feel that you saw a good movie and had a great time.
Like when DJs try kicking everyone out by playing some laid back old school song? It's always better than just cutting off the music completely while in mid-song and saying something like "Ight. Party is over y'all. Thanks for coming."
I have talked about this movie since I was 10!!! The most underrated movie should still be recognized!! Great scenery and costumes! Nothing but wonderful words to describe this movie!
Lisa Liberty, I love this song! When I was a boy I always listened to this tune at the end of Time Bandits cos I loved it. It wasn't till a lot of years later as an adult I watched this film again and bothered to look at the credits. That's when I realised George Harrison did this tune. And by that time I happened to be a Beatles fan! I'm with you on this, its f#####g mint! I love it!
"Time Bandits" is responsible for my desire to be in the film industry as an actor and writer. I was five years old when this movie came out and saw it at the theatre ten...thats right TEN times. To this day, it's my favorite end credits where the song plays and you see photos of the film in the background !! God Bless everyone responsible for this film !! Love you George Harrison !! Rest in everlasting peace !!
I would argue its not a python film... only that Terri Gillian directed it, Terry and michael palin wrote it... and a few of the pythons featured in it... But really it was a Terry Gillian movie... Sorry for waiting up your old post :p i just found the music to listen to again
Just finished watching Minty's "10 Thing You Didn't Know about Time Bandits". This is actually part of a trilogy: Time Bandits, Brazil, and Baron Von Munchhausen.
Me and my little brother used to watc Time Bandits religiously when we were tiny. He's a huge Beatles fan and he's always said this would be his funeral song. I hope with all my heart im long gone
Wow, I was six when it came out and watching it for the first time. With my dad and two older brothers, it became a staple. I just watched it on TMC, brought back so many memories of my childhood I am glad I rewatched and listen to this song Big fan
"If I was creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one." (Pure Evil)
Brio deparis nipples for men! SLUGS! He created slugs! They can't hear, they can't speak, they can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?!
Saw it when it first came out definitely one of my favorite movies and always loved the ending song George Harrison dream away and that's what it's about dream away RIP George.🇬🇧
Waking while you're still deep sleeping Finding you're not here Watching a dream appear Oh Ry In Eye Ay - Oh Ry In Eye Ay Oh Ry In Eye Key Ooh Lay Ka Lay Ooh Lau Ee - Oh Ry In Eye Ay Sya Te Lee Ay Vee Show Takes me back to the great decade of the 80's RIP Kathern Helmond
Great movie. My twin brother and I weren’t born when it came out in theaters, but our older siblings saw it and rented it, that’s when we saw it and enjoyed it. We even got a copy on DVD.
As Netflix's DVD service was ending, I chose Time Bandits as one of the final movies I'd hold onto and never have to return. Just finished rewatching it for the umpteenth time. I was 10 y.o. when this movie came out, and remember seeing it multiple times in the cheap theater, and watching it again and again on cable afterwards. Time Bandits may have been my first exposure to what mature, nuanced (but also wildly creative) filmmaking could be. It's a fantasy, but like all of Gilliam's work, with grim, sinister, and tragic undertones alongside hilariously funny moments. It's what fairy tales were meant to be before Disney got their simplistic, puritanical, lowest-common-denominator hands on them. The song sets a bizarrely perfect tone as the film ends: energetic but dreamlike, and the nonsense words somehow capture what Gilliam's movies do: take the viewer to places where words and logic can't reach.
I'm coming Home this Summer to see my Children and be with them Forever. This song has been like the soundtrack to my last few months to that moment. I'm coming Home.
Time Bandits is my favourite film. It is perfect. I've given it to a friend and I can't wait to find out what he thinks of it. Evil is just so funny. Everything pains him - "Yes I know, I'm sorry!" 😂
bill gedeon George’s trademark! He didn’t feel comfortable playing the blues slide cliches so developed his own angelic chorus style method! I love it!!!
Saw this flick at the theater when I was a freshman in high school. The first movie that ever absolutely blew my head off. Un-freaking-believable. If anyone tried to make it today it would be a formulaic soulless piece of CGI crap. I can't name an "all-time favorite movie," but if I had to list my 5 favorites, this is one of them. Brazil is another. Gilliam is, and always has been, a true visionary.
Yes. Gilliam films can be uneven and shaggy, with endings that often feel inconclusive or unsatisfying but then continue to gnaw at you and won't let go for days or years after you finish watching them. Even Time Bandits, which is overall mostly funny and upbeat, hits a really dark note at the end that's been scorched into my memory since I first saw it at age 10 in 1981. All of his films have his uncompromising visual and emotional stamp, which could never be imitated.
This is one of my all time favourite fantasy movies for sure... Siiiigh... Loved it as a kid and now love it as a grownup whose remaining hairs started to go grey recently... It's ... fantastic, funny, seriously spooky WHILE being funny at the same time, it has a bunch of brilliant characters played by awesome actors (Napoleon, Robin Hood, Agamemnon, the Ultimate Evil and of *course* all the little guys including the kid)... It presents a world in which everything somehow *really* seems to be possible and finished by underlining that with one of the best "WTF did just happen???"-moments I ever saw... ... and then this sweet little tune starts. :) *sigh*
My genius twelve -year-old (I'm 60) and I love to watch this movie at least every every six to eight months, and we especially love to whip it out on unsuspecting guests who have never heard of it. We both love the reactions we get to this movie. Absolutely one of the best fantasy movies ever made. The acting and production are just fabulous, the comedy absurd, and the heart deep.
PlanetRockJesus You know, it's movies like this - stories that are awesome and make you think about things without you noticing it right away - (with a "deep heart" - I like that) that sometimes make me wish I had kids, so I could show it to them one day and then talk about it with them afterwards. :) We can't treasure story tellers like Gilliam enough. BTW - if you and your 12 year old likes this kind of stuff and are into books I *highly* recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld stories. Pratchett's humour is quite pythonesque at times, but he also has a deep heart (heh) and a brilliant understanding of what makes us humans "tick". Very funny and insightful. Amnogst those (by now over 40?) books are also a handful aimed especially at younger readers and I dare say that 12 years is the right age for them. There's "The Incredible Maurice and his Educated Rodents" for once (a take on the classic story of the Rat Catcher, only with the typical Pratchett twist: Here a young rat catcher works together with a clan of intelligent rats, a Major's daughter and Maurice the cat, also intelligent, to solve a mystery) and then the books about Tiffany Aching (a young girl who learns to be a Witch - think kinda Harry Potter, only intelligent ;) ) - "Wee Free Men", "A Hatful of Sky", "Wintersmith" and "I shall wear Midnight".
did you spot God's message though : I MAKE BOTH THINGS GOOD AND BAD it's from a verse in the bible showing God is in ULTIMATE CONTROL over both light and darkness, heaven and hell. Then he asks the little dwarfs to put EVERY BIT OF EVIL in where :) the Post Box underneath which it reads: SAVINGS BANK !! Put all the EVIL in the BANKS ! Look today whence doth all evil appear..... our Banks
Look at the final scenes of the film. Kevin is holding a bunch of Polaroids, including one that shows the map with the locations of all the time holes. He totally used the [picture of the] map to get back together with his companions.
Thanks for the comment about the ending. Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton are some of the best directors we have. They have guts and vision and seem to attract great actors.
This is such a great film and think everybody should see it. It's good for all ages to view. For years i wanted the George Harrison song at the end but for the life of me couldn't get hold of it. I downloaded it today from Amazon from his album Gone Troppo. It's a must have for every true fans iPod. Now sing along people......
I love time bandits I am from the UK and I love this song by George Harrison and I love Sean Connery and Jon clesse in this film as well as Michael pealing as well as David Warner and director by Monty pythons Terry Gilliam
Found my way here from seeing the Time Bandits reference at the end of the recent Lego Simpsons episode. All these years and I never knew this was George Harrison. What a great tune.
George was good friends with the Monty Python team, and loved Eric Idle's Rutles parody of his band's life. In later years he was happy to help out financially and musically with the guys! In 'Life of Brian' he even plays one of Brian's guest, in a blink and you'll miss it cameo where he says 'Hullo!' to the camera and walks away :D
the timing mechanism is a mess, it has to be reset every 4 years, and daylight savings was a huge mistake, wish you all would quit with that one, it really makes an extra mess
I watch this movie at least 10-15 times a year. The first time I saw it was when I was probably a couple of months to a year old. I can't remember a time without it.
I watched this film when it was first released and was awe struck by it .....I'm now 59 years old and have revisted it on many occassions, including with my own children, I cannot explain why, but not only is it one of my all time favourite films, but this song always without fail takes me back to a simpler time .... and also never fails to elicit a tear.
same here...
Yep 48 here.
Yup 49 here! Even at the time of release the song was powerful!
So did I until my VHS woreout. I'm 54 now and miss the Great movies and Talented actors
🍀🍀🍀🍀👍
I'm 60, exact same feeling.
Just amazing how George Harrison's voice improved by the 1980s.. we all miss you George
R.I.P. David Rappaport. Jack Purvis. Tiny Ross. Sir Ralph Richardson, and George Harrison!
I loved the film as a kid. I loved the song even more. Remember rewinding the VHS just to listen again and again.
Me too!!!! Thought I was crazy....
Jay Williamson
yes i do. you get it. i was tgere too
Me too. I wore out the damn VHS tape.
😆 yes same, I thought it strangely catchy.
Same here!!!
This song of childhood makes me cry. 😢 I miss the 80’s.
Same here, I’m 52 and still love this movie and song
Me too, 52! Absolutely love this film and this song. The memories ❤❤❤
This song is pure magic. Period.
I agree with that!!!
I get chills
100 percent
Oh Ry In Eye Ay - Oh Ry In Eye Ay
Oh Ry In Eye Key Ooh Lay
Ka Lay Ooh Lau Ee - Oh Ry In Eye Ay
Sya Te Lee Ay Vee Show
Oh my. This song was PERFECT for the credits of this movie. It just enhanced what you had just seen. I remember staying until it stopped. it was so relaxing to just sit in the cool theater and listen to this after having just watched the film. made you almost relive the whole film over. I wish they have made a part 2 like terry wanted to.
I'd like to dedicate this to my sons, Gabriel Edward and Sebastian Andrew. May we never stop traveling through time and space together.
I saw this movie as a kid. It all made sense to me back then and never forgot any of it. Recently I had the pleasure of introducing my son to the movie. The look of happiness in his face said it all ❤️
One of the most fun, audience pleasing, satisfying films of all time.
This song and that film bring me back to when I was a 3 year old , one of my earliest memories is watching this
This song makes me feel a bizarre mixture of happy and sad. I always assumed firefighter Sean Connery adopted Kevin at the end.
So did I!!!
One hopes. It's a pretty messed up movie otherwise.
I always hoped he'd gone back to Greece somehow
Kevin still has his pictures at the end.
Orphanage
I remember meeting Kenny Baker at a convention. Apparently i was one of the extremely few who was more interested in his stories about Time Bandits than Star Wars. He even performed "Me and My Shadow " for me and my friends. A very gracious and funny fellow.
What a great actor. R2-D2 was the emotional heart of Star Wars, and Fidget is the emotional heart (along with Kevin) of Time Bandits.
I just can't help imagining alan partridge saying "and that was George harrisons gibberish classic..."
"Yes, why do we have to have evil?"
"I think it's something to do with free will"
Isaiah 45:7 KJV
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things .
science & logic tells us free will is illusory,. everything is genes/ conditioning/ cause & effect
@@Jesse-fk3xc Science and logic absolutely do not tell us this.
"free will" refers to HIS, not ours.
@@adamlong1196 Ours as well.
i got to sing in this with George. what a dream!!! sara lynn jones recor fleetwood!
mcbillygoat I have always found the background vocals on this particular song to be intoxicating. I believe it is the voice of Syreeta Wright, R.I.P. to both her and George.
+SARA LYNN FLEETWOOD really??? THATS AWESOME, how was the sessions??
dreamy! haha i would have never believed it if someone told me as a child! xxx
What???!!! You're backvocal? In this case you sound terrific (sorry for bad english, I'm 16 year old Bulgarian).
Great for you. In that case I've been listening to you since the movie came out, nice to know.
Man this song and movie sure takes me back
ive just given every1 on this page an extra thumbs up lol.. yes what an amazing film and song a lump in the throat at the end when this song plays...29 years old this film i was only 6 but hey happy memoirs xxxxx
The initial melody works well as an outro song for when the cinema lights go up and people leave the theater. Makes you feel that you saw a good movie and had a great time.
You almost can't imagine a song being as fitting and magical as the film was. Yet we have it.
This is one of those perfect "its the end of the party" kind of songs.
Like when DJs try kicking everyone out by playing some laid back old school song? It's always better than just cutting off the music completely while in mid-song and saying something like "Ight. Party is over y'all. Thanks for coming."
Best end of the party song; “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Is That All There Is ~ Peggy Lee
"Waking while you're still deep sleeping
Finding you're not here
Watching a dream appear"
Pure Genius!
RIP George, thanks for the music
I miss you George. I am appreciate your comment.
So there's an upcoming Time Bandits TV series which is why I'm here. What a great song!
Dream away.. one beautiful piece of music and enlightenment...
Time bandits...One of the best films ever made.. very underrated...
I have talked about this movie since I was 10!!! The most underrated movie should still be recognized!! Great scenery and costumes! Nothing but wonderful words to describe this movie!
total magic...we dont have this kind of magic any longer in music.
Ram on and RIP George,
Joe.
My all time favorite song by George Harrison also love the movie Time Bandits
Lisa Liberty
i wish more girls did
so dated like a pirate movie. an equally good soundtrack from yesterday
Same here
Lisa Liberty, I love this song! When I was a boy I always listened to this tune at the end of Time Bandits cos I loved it. It wasn't till a lot of years later as an adult I watched this film again and bothered to look at the credits. That's when I realised George Harrison did this tune. And by that time I happened to be a Beatles fan! I'm with you on this, its f#####g mint! I love it!
I'm pretty young, found this movie I was like five and never got over it. It's my all time favorite. Just this year I got it on dvd
Really probably the best midget time travel movie.
38Gaucho Most entertaining Time Travel Movie
Yes and that would still be true even if it werent the ONLY midget time travel movie
@@justice_productions_ ill have to check that out
Oh no you di’ent!!!
Just as long as they don't do a remake!
Holy crap, I just got knocked to the floor by a HUGE blast of nostalgia!
Always loved this song, and this movie was completely incredible.
For most kids my age it was E.T. but for me it was Time Bandits
Yes.
RIP Kenny Baker
but, but, Fidget's Dead, '''That's No Excuse'' >snap< and he wakes from the dust, one of the best moments in the film
This film(among other things) gave him immortality.
Malcolm Dixon is the last Time Bandit.
Jack Purvis actually died first.
"Time Bandits" is responsible for my desire to be in the film industry as an actor and writer. I was five years old when this movie came out and saw it at the theatre ten...thats right TEN times.
To this day, it's my favorite end credits where the song plays and you see photos of the film in the background !!
God Bless everyone responsible for this film !!
Love you George Harrison !! Rest in everlasting peace !!
Did you make it? I hope you did
Still one of the best tunes of all time.
A extremely underrated classic of a movie, those Pythons made cool movies, well one of them ;)
I would argue its not a python film... only that Terri Gillian directed it, Terry and michael palin wrote it... and a few of the pythons featured in it... But really it was a Terry Gillian movie...
Sorry for waiting up your old post :p i just found the music to listen to again
Just finished watching Minty's "10 Thing You Didn't Know about Time Bandits". This is actually part of a trilogy: Time Bandits, Brazil, and Baron Von Munchhausen.
@@dishmanw so did I, and I plan to have our kids watch this again so they remember it (they watched it years ago, much younger)
I don't think it's underrated. It does get it's praise and was a hit.
Those Handmade Films made cool movies!
Grazie Babbo x avermi fatto conoscere questi fantastici film.... Mi manchi.
-you wanna be leader of this gang?
-no we agreed, no leaders.
-right, so shut up and do as I say.
Jolly good
Sounds like a politician wrote those lines lol
@@zippythechimp4219 that Robin hood scene was Good
British humor so good.
George Harrison was always massively under-rated.
Imagine you are in The Beatles and considered the 3rd best songwriter and you come up with this, plus so many other classic songs...
George Harrison is a much better songsmith than Lennon imo. If the latter hadn't died, i don't think his reputation would be nearly as high
@@redcardinalist 😂 😂😂😂 what have you been smoking? 😂 😂
Then McCartney would say not good enough lets do Maxwell Silver Hammer 😂
@@user-michael77sorry, George was ever bit as good as Lennon and a far deeper writer then Paul
First watched Time Bandits during my senior year in high school. Just watched it again, now retired, and enjoyed even more than the first time!
I hear ya! nobody does music today like they used to--- sometimes change really sucks!
Me and my little brother used to watc Time Bandits religiously when we were tiny. He's a huge Beatles fan and he's always said this would be his funeral song. I hope with all my heart im long gone
this movie totatlly changed my life! i cant hear this song and not totally cry!!!
Wow, I was six when it came out and watching it for the first time. With my dad and two older brothers, it became a staple. I just watched it on TMC, brought back so many memories of my childhood
I am glad I rewatched and listen to this song
Big fan
15 years too late but I have to comment on the back up singer, perfect.
"If I was creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one." (Pure Evil)
Brio deparis nipples for men! SLUGS! He created slugs! They can't hear, they can't speak, they can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?!
Looks like hes got the upper hand now...perhaps this crisis will cool his heels
Classic!
(Zap, brief scream)
...Sorry.
love this song! wish i grew up in the 80's. RIP Mr.Harrison you are the best!
Fantastic theme to an fantastic movie...RlP George Harrison, Sean Connery and now David Warner
I was 8 years old and snuck down to theater to see this movie. It was raining, good times.
this song is so addictive i keep coming back ......................tumbling thru a 1000 centuries ...its so dark in mytholigy...
tumbling thru a thousand centuries... needs a million views and more... GH is just the best
me too...loved that song when I was a kid...kind of bittersweet vibe to it.
Time bandits is my favorite movie of all time. I recently introduced my partners to it and they love it just as much as I do. A true classic
"Well, I am the nice one." -- God
"Are ya?" - John Lennon (A Hard Days Night)
This song is way under rated.
Saw it when it first came out definitely one of my favorite movies and always loved the ending song George Harrison dream away and that's what it's about dream away RIP George.🇬🇧
Don't touch that. That's concentrated evil. One touch will turn you all into hermit crabs.
koolpop jones it's actually "one drop of that will turn you all into hermit crabs".
I’ll take my chances
"Crabs! Why did it have to be crabs!?" Guild Wars 2 player
Waking while you're still deep sleeping
Finding you're not here
Watching a dream appear
Oh Ry In Eye Ay - Oh Ry In Eye Ay
Oh Ry In Eye Key Ooh Lay
Ka Lay Ooh Lau Ee - Oh Ry In Eye Ay
Sya Te Lee Ay Vee Show
Takes me back to the great decade of the 80's
RIP Kathern Helmond
Jolly good
Jolly good
Great movie. My twin brother and I weren’t born when it came out in theaters, but our older siblings saw it and rented it, that’s when we saw it and enjoyed it. We even got a copy on DVD.
ive seen this film over 25 times and it gets better every time i watch it
"As long as this wind keeps up, nothing can go wrong"
A Beatle, and the Beatles of comedy, teamed up to give us this masterpiece of a movie ❤
As Netflix's DVD service was ending, I chose Time Bandits as one of the final movies I'd hold onto and never have to return. Just finished rewatching it for the umpteenth time. I was 10 y.o. when this movie came out, and remember seeing it multiple times in the cheap theater, and watching it again and again on cable afterwards. Time Bandits may have been my first exposure to what mature, nuanced (but also wildly creative) filmmaking could be. It's a fantasy, but like all of Gilliam's work, with grim, sinister, and tragic undertones alongside hilariously funny moments. It's what fairy tales were meant to be before Disney got their simplistic, puritanical, lowest-common-denominator hands on them. The song sets a bizarrely perfect tone as the film ends: energetic but dreamlike, and the nonsense words somehow capture what Gilliam's movies do: take the viewer to places where words and logic can't reach.
I'm coming Home this Summer to see my Children and be with them Forever. This song has been like the soundtrack to my last few months to that moment. I'm coming Home.
Probably my favorite song of all time. May seem weird but I don't care.
Time Bandits is my favourite film. It is perfect. I've given it to a friend and I can't wait to find out what he thinks of it. Evil is just so funny. Everything pains him - "Yes I know, I'm sorry!" 😂
So many great lines and human observations in this film. If it's not a cult classic, it should be.
This is such a rich and beautiful song. Now i should be going off watching Time Bandits!
i miss you george. great song, great movie. may god bless you george. till we meet again
and a legend this film/tune will ALWAYS be.. i hope this tune/film IS only a dream away from all of you...xx
Harrison, loved that slide guitar effect..
bill gedeon George’s trademark! He didn’t feel comfortable playing the blues slide cliches so developed his own angelic chorus style method!
I love it!!!
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 angelic chorus is a great way to describe it! Those parts in particular hit me with such joy in this song.
Saw this flick at the theater when I was a freshman in high school. The first movie that ever absolutely blew my head off. Un-freaking-believable. If anyone tried to make it today it would be a formulaic soulless piece of CGI crap. I can't name an "all-time favorite movie," but if I had to list my 5 favorites, this is one of them. Brazil is another. Gilliam is, and always has been, a true visionary.
In all these comments, I have not found a truer statement made.
Yes. Gilliam films can be uneven and shaggy, with endings that often feel inconclusive or unsatisfying but then continue to gnaw at you and won't let go for days or years after you finish watching them. Even Time Bandits, which is overall mostly funny and upbeat, hits a really dark note at the end that's been scorched into my memory since I first saw it at age 10 in 1981. All of his films have his uncompromising visual and emotional stamp, which could never be imitated.
i was 11 saw this on cable for the first time around 1982 this song still tugs at me
I have see that movie in the early 1980s it was a Blast from the Past i have enjoyed.
P.S. Sean Coneary made a cameo in that film as a Firefighter.
Firefighter and King Agamemnon.
great film with the cherry on top... this song at the end.... wonderful. superb... ooolaweee
only a dream away....what a tune.... G.H is a legend
I loved the way they talked with lines like "we work for the Supreme being...you mean God...well we don't know him that well...lmao
I can’t wait to sit down and watch this 80’s masterpiece with my daughter. She’s still just a touch young to understand movies.
Little things...HITTING EACH OTHER.
Cue "Me And My Shadow".
This song is embedded in my childhood memories, along with that movie. Thanks George.
This is one of my all time favourite fantasy movies for sure... Siiiigh... Loved it as a kid and now love it as a grownup whose remaining hairs started to go grey recently...
It's ... fantastic, funny, seriously spooky WHILE being funny at the same time, it has a bunch of brilliant characters played by awesome actors (Napoleon, Robin Hood, Agamemnon, the Ultimate Evil and of *course* all the little guys including the kid)...
It presents a world in which everything somehow *really* seems to be possible and finished by underlining that with one of the best "WTF did just happen???"-moments I ever saw...
... and then this sweet little tune starts. :) *sigh*
My genius twelve -year-old (I'm 60) and I love to watch this movie at least every every six to eight months, and we especially love to whip it out on unsuspecting guests who have never heard of it. We both love the reactions we get to this movie. Absolutely one of the best fantasy movies ever made. The acting and production are just fabulous, the comedy absurd, and the heart deep.
PlanetRockJesus
You know, it's movies like this - stories that are awesome and make you think about things without you noticing it right away - (with a "deep heart" - I like that) that sometimes make me wish I had kids, so I could show it to them one day and then talk about it with them afterwards. :)
We can't treasure story tellers like Gilliam enough.
BTW - if you and your 12 year old likes this kind of stuff and are into books I *highly* recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld stories. Pratchett's humour is quite pythonesque at times, but he also has a deep heart (heh) and a brilliant understanding of what makes us humans "tick". Very funny and insightful.
Amnogst those (by now over 40?) books are also a handful aimed especially at younger readers and I dare say that 12 years is the right age for them. There's "The Incredible Maurice and his Educated Rodents" for once (a take on the classic story of the Rat Catcher, only with the typical Pratchett twist: Here a young rat catcher works together with a clan of intelligent rats, a Major's daughter and Maurice the cat, also intelligent, to solve a mystery) and then the books about Tiffany Aching (a young girl who learns to be a Witch - think kinda Harry Potter, only intelligent ;) ) - "Wee Free Men", "A Hatful of Sky", "Wintersmith" and "I shall wear Midnight".
RIP Kenny Baker, too bad the Supreme Being didn't revive him in real life
did you spot God's message though : I MAKE BOTH THINGS GOOD AND BAD it's from a verse in the bible showing God is in ULTIMATE CONTROL over both light and darkness, heaven and hell. Then he asks the little dwarfs to put EVERY BIT OF EVIL in where :) the Post Box underneath which it reads: SAVINGS BANK !! Put all the EVIL in the BANKS ! Look today whence doth all evil appear..... our Banks
@@juncakarina7690 LOL
first movie I ever saw in theatres that I remember.... 4 years old!!!!
Look at the final scenes of the film. Kevin is holding a bunch of Polaroids, including one that shows the map with the locations of all the time holes. He totally used the [picture of the] map to get back together with his companions.
Jesus christ...i was born in 82 saw and have always loved this song ever since i was about 5
best movie ever! brings back such good memoreeeez
Thanks for the comment about the ending. Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton are some of the best directors we have. They have guts and vision and seem to attract great actors.
I've grown up with this film and I still love it and I plan on showing it to my kids when I eventually have them lol :o) xXx
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Great film, great soundtrack.
This is such a great film and think everybody should see it. It's good for all ages to view. For years i wanted the George Harrison song at the end but for the life of me couldn't get hold of it. I downloaded it today from Amazon from his album Gone Troppo. It's a must have for every true fans iPod. Now sing along people......
I love time bandits I am from the UK and I love this song by George Harrison and I love Sean Connery and Jon clesse in this film as well as Michael pealing as well as David Warner and director by Monty pythons Terry Gilliam
Found my way here from seeing the Time Bandits reference at the end of the recent Lego Simpsons episode. All these years and I never knew this was George Harrison. What a great tune.
George was good friends with the Monty Python team, and loved Eric Idle's Rutles parody of his band's life. In later years he was happy to help out financially and musically with the guys!
In 'Life of Brian' he even plays one of Brian's guest, in a blink and you'll miss it cameo where he says 'Hullo!' to the camera and walks away :D
the universe was a bit of a botched job, we only had seven days to make it.
Um, Please no!
lenrat117 a pink bungadoo haha
the timing mechanism is a mess, it has to be reset every 4 years, and daylight savings was a huge mistake, wish you all would quit with that one, it really makes an extra mess
That tree probably exists in Australia somewhere.
Six; the seventh day was a day to rest
Still love this film. Quirky and fun.Love the theme music too. Classic George!
I'm 44 and never knew George Harrison sung this song.
Holy Grail would have existed without him...
"I'm feeling very... good."
"I'm sorry, master!"
"It will pass."
All things must...
Thanks for that inspirational moment George...Harrison that is.
Time Bandits was the best movie I ever watched as a kid! Keep rocking it Terry Gilliam & George Harrison !!
this is brilliance. the film and the music.
I watch this movie at least 10-15 times a year. The first time I saw it was when I was probably a couple of months to a year old. I can't remember a time without it.