Time Bandits
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Apple TVEleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.
Apple TVEleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.
This Time Bandits spends four or five chapters — out of 10 episodes running between 30 and 46 minutes — as something flat, but amiably so. I ran out of interest in the show’s bland efforts to replicate the movie almost exactly at the point Time Bandits finally begins to find its own story, its own approach to the time-traveling conceit and its own voice. Between episodes six and nine, Time Bandits hits a fine gear in which it’s actively funny and clever and just a little bit emotional.
Lisa Kudrow Leads a Merry Band of ‘Time Bandits’ in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s Giddy Reboot: TV Review. By Alison Herman.Catering to kids falls well within the wheelhouse of both Clement and Waititi, who’s helmed coming-of-age projects like “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” “Time Bandits” is light on big emotions, but it’s rife with the giddy, bumbling playfulness that marks the Clement-Waititi oeuvre (Penelope orders her comrades to escape by urging them to “employ the scurry”), anchored by the sweet sincerity of Kevin’s wonderment.
