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Young Kevins daydreams burst into astonishing and hilarious life when a band of time-traveling little men come crashing through his bedroom wardrobe and carry him off on an unbelievable crime spree, weaving through the greatest and strangest moments of history. The pint-sized plunderers filch from a neurotic Napoleon (Ian Holm), a dim-witted Robin Hood (John Cleese) and a heroic King Agamemnon (Sean Connery), leading to a showdown with the dark forces of Evil (David Warner)...all while keeping just one precarious step ahead of the wrath of The Supreme Being himself!Producer/Director/Co-writer Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil) teams with many of his comic-genius cohorts from Monty Python to bring this laugh-out-loud modern fairy tale-adventure to life.

What a crazy odd movie. I think I saw bits of it when I was young, but it just wasn't my type of film so I never watched the whole thing. Since it had no childhood nostalgia for me, I didn't care for it as an adult either. My younger two kids liked it though.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/
 

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I remember seeing this in the theater back when it first came out. I remember liking it, but I was 13 at the time and can't remember a thing about it except that it had little people.
 
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Love this movie!!!

You were the first person I thought of when posting this movie this morning! You always comment on fantasy movies like this.

This is pretty much a Monty Python movie without the Python branding.

I had no idea it was Monty Python related until I did my research after watching it.
 

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Love it. Own it.

There isn't much to dislike about Terry Gilliam's films or the manner in which he viewed Hollywood back in the day.
"12 Monkeys" is one of my favorite movies ever made. "Bandits" is so much fun.
 

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Love it. Own it.

There isn't much to dislike about Terry Gilliam's films or the manner in which he viewed Hollywood back in the day.
"12 Monkeys" is one of my favorite movies ever made. "Bandits" is so much fun.


Love 12 Monkeys


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People forget Sean Connery is in this. It's a good movie. David Warner, as usual, plays a great villain.
 

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Used to watch this over an over when I was younger.
 

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Love it. Own it.

There isn't much to dislike about Terry Gilliam's films or the manner in which he viewed Hollywood back in the day.
"12 Monkeys" is one of my favorite movies ever made. "Bandits" is so much fun.

If you love 12 Monkeys, I hope you've seen the documentary of 12 Monkeys attached to the CD. You will feel so sorry for Gilliam (and anyone who has to work with him), because he's clearly mentally ill. Very entertaining. LOL
 

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If you love 12 Monkeys, I hope you've seen the documentary of 12 Monkeys attached to the CD. You will feel so sorry for Gilliam (and anyone who has to work with him), because he's clearly mentally ill. Very entertaining. LOL

watch The Man Of La Mancha...it's the documentary done by the same crew about Gilliam's failed attempt to make Don Quixote.
 

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If you love 12 Monkeys, I hope you've seen the documentary of 12 Monkeys attached to the CD. You will feel so sorry for Gilliam (and anyone who has to work with him), because he's clearly mentally ill. Very entertaining. LOL

Yeah its fantastic,and yes...i wouldn't last 1 day working for him. I had a boss who "operated" that way once. Extremely frustrating situation.
 
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