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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
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3.8
They have not made a childrens movie, but children may find it fascinating, because these adventures involve castles and sultans and horses and knight ..
Rogerebert
5.0
It also means Gilliams familiar face off between good (magic, creativity, imagination, hope) and bad (Age of Reason logic, mediocrity and cynicism).
5.0
The movie is an exhilarating one of a kind achievement, but its overbearing, too a little too in your face to be as enjoyable as you might hope it to ..
3.0
It is typically ironic then that those exaggerations confined to the story itself make for a vivid and extraordinary, if not wholly satisfying, epic.
4.0
Terry Gilliams third fantasy feature (1989) may not achieve all it reaches for, but it goes beyond Time Bandits and Brazil in its play with space and ..
Chicago Reader
3.5
To call it larger than life is an understatement its downright gigantic in every department, from its exuberant performances to its pulsating colors a ..
Cs Monitor
4.0
But often it all seems rather cumbersome, all chaotic frenzy and noise, lacking the wit that might have made it more of an endearment to moviegoers.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.0
As with all Gilliams fantasy works, this is old style fairytale territory, haphazard and brutal, filled with utterly self centered characters, but tha ..
Eye For Film
3.8
The narrative is highly episodic and only intermittently engaging, but Gilliams wildly inventive mise en scene, ably assisted by production designer D ..
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
The quality common to the three movies is not comedy that makes one laugh but spectacle that is supposed to boggle the eyes.
Ny Times
4.5
Like many of Gilliams cerebral, impish films, Munchausen toes the line between rationality and fantasy, gleefully incorporating both into the same sto ..
The Filmy Ap
3.5
Maybe its not complete insanity: Both mens films glow with enormous positivism.They are film makers who have faith in something that can be called lov ..
La Times
3.8
There are some great almost Monty Python like comic moments, but halfway through the movie one becomes used to all the special effects and stunning pr ..
Scifi Movie Page
3.8
And the deflating humor that worked so well in Brazil, placing the overwhelming spectacle in an ironic perspective, seems merely smart alecky here, pe ..
Articles Chicago Tribune
3.0
There might have been a graceful way to interweave the four strands of Baron Munchausen, but as the movie has turned out, its almost as disorienting a ..
Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.5
Theres simply too much fun to be had along a melange of tangents.
Articles Sun Sentinel
3.5
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN Directed by Terry Gilliam Screenplay by Charles McKeown and Terry Gilliam The grandest film folly since Heavens Gat ..
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