Taika Waititi, Jermaine Clement and Iain Morriss Apple TV+ remake is mixing things up.
Warning: contains spoilers forTime Bandits(1981) & (2024) episodes one & two.
Strong language, self-harm references & violence.
An overreaction, or fair dos, in light of the films meaty battle scenes and famously bleak ending?
The cause of the fire is traced to an oven containing a smoking chunk of black rock.
Mum, Dad, its evil, dont touch it, shouts little Kevin.
Ignoring him, they touch it and are instantly vaporised, leaving behind two smoking piles of dust.
asks Kevin, walking among the singed remains of their destroyed home.
By taking the coal with him, Kevin clearly hopes to revive his parents.
Especially the ending with the parents blowing up.
I said, Come on!
The kids will be fine with that.
The boys certainly were, and the girls were more motherly.
They were concerned about what was going to happen to Kevin now that his parents are no longer there.
Its an interesting and exciting place, but its also a dangerous place.