Special Effects had a bad day when working on Time Blandishments.
Time Bandits (1981) is a rollicking exploration of what lengths a Supreme Being will go to in order to
- Have their own version of the Monty Python troupe;
- Retrieve the super-secret map of the world from whoever stole it this time;
- Test out the new formulation of evil they stayed up late concocting.
Pick one and only one, please. Or, if you prefer, most movies aspire to, and some even attain, Jello Salad status, where the gelatin is the action and the fruit embedded in the gelatin is/are the themes.
Time Bandits forgot the fruit.
Which doesn’t make it boring, but it is a bit choppy and even puzzling. Best taken with a measure of alcohol. You pick the measuring utensil.
