This is so much different from the movies or animations today. It is stuffed with symbolysm, creativity, ambience. The story is not that complicated. I watched this film first around 1984 when I was 6 years old. It was frightening to me, because bad things happened to the kid and did not really get the time travel aspect. Now watching it as an adult it was a better experience but also a nostalgic one. At the end I thought how good this would have been as a series or a full movie (it is only aboult 75 mins long). The thing is that it has so many wounderful ideas and incomplete visions, but with presenting these, no time remains to build the characters. So characters are just blueprints or simple scetches, just clichés. The sexy princess, the treacherous prince, the two comedic relief aliens, the james bond pilot, the drunkard old sailor in space, the innocent child etc. With a longer runtime or a series real character traits and backstory could have been added. So at the end it remains a great film, but feels like an unscored penalty which broke the goal post.
Review of Time Masters
