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...cast delivers it. Hanging onto a steady crescendo of comic tension, Andrew Atkinson as the reprobate Charles Surface and Michael Hasselmo as his dignified uncle-with-the-money square off over a Dunster pool table, drawing more and more delicious rhythm from the lines as they gain confidence...
...fossil puzzle: he capped the reassembled beast with skull fragments found elsewhere/Unfortunately, they came from another long-necked dinosaur called Camarasaurus. At least partly because of Marsh's prestige, his flat-nosed monster became the model for other museums as well as Brontosaurus representations in books, comic strips, even advertisements...
...Gizzard of Odd. Is this what Gilliam and Palin had in mind? A nasty fantasy, an antiepic, a revisionist fable? Seems so: surely the pair of Pythonians who concocted this ragged film knew what they were about. If the scenario dismisses good ideas and stretches bad ones, if the comic timing in some sequences seems laboriously off, if the film manages to alienate the audience that might have been attracted to it-well, Gilliam and Palin must have wanted it that...
Gilliam, the one American in the Python troupe, got his start in New York in the early 1960s as assistant editor of Harvey Kurtzman's humor magazine Help!, which specialized in live-action comic strips called fumettis (puffs of smoke). In Time Bandits, Gilliam is still the innovative graphic artist who brings strange worlds to extravagant life but cannot animate his actors. And he is still blowing smoke in the audience's face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less...
...Poet and Novelist Jim Harrison (Farmer, Legends of the Fall). His mock hero, Johnny Lundgren, nicknamed Warlock, is a reluctant Swedish-American gumshoe who has been fired from his job as a foundation executive. He flees to the comforting semi-poverty of rural northern Michigan where irrelevance turns to comic Scandinavian angst. Trysts in his overheated Subaru prove difficult; his forays at gourmet cooking are disasters; insolvency threatens. Then, in the nick of time, Lundgren's wife Diana gets him a job with Dr. Rabun, a prosthetic Edison who designs sexual aids that imitate the motion of swimming porpoises...