Time Bandits Themes
Escape
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...
Good vs. Evil
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...
Foolishness and Folly
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
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...
Dreams, Hopes, and Plans
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...
Versions of Reality
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...