The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (20th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: Second Only to The Wizard of Oz
Summary: 5 Stars
Where was I when this movie was released? I don't recall even hearing about it. I was reading the book "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" when I decided to look at some of the reviews of it, and I was then linked to the movie.
Well, I suppose the other reviews have already said most of what needs to be said. This is a monumental artistic masterpiece: visually as extravagant and beautiful as a movie can be. This will inspire the imagination of both you and your kids. The acting is superb, and the story-line is fantastic. I love the inherent message: life is a grand adventure; never give up; have fun along the way; enjoy the ride as you see where life takes you.
All the major players deserve Academy Awards for this production, and/or to be knighted or some type of Presedential Award. They have left behind something on the scale of The Wizard of Oz: generations to follow will be delighted and inspired by this movie. My two-year-old and six-year-old are downstairs watching it (again) and I can hear their giggles of delight.
Simply stated: this movie is a stone-cold Classic for Eternity.
Movie Review: Does any remember an Animated Baron??
Summary: 5 Stars
okay, i swear that when i was about 5 yrs old (early 80s) there was an animated movie of Baron Von Muchausen. My parents have a copy of this on BETA tape (yeah, that old!) at our cabin, but i can't remember any other info on it. It was VERY out there. if anyone can back me on this, please help!Movie Review: Eric Idle rules the day...and the Baron too
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie, though it has its dark moments, has the wit of Terry Gilliam as its director, and Eric Idle is great as alwaysMovie Review: ONE OF THE STRANGEST FILMS EVER MADE. WELL DONE!
Summary: 5 Stars
Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is one of the strangest films ever made, yet is genuinely satisfying. John Neville ("The X-Files") is at his best as the Baron von Munchausen, whose strange stories all turn out to be true. The supporting cast, which includes Eric Idle ("Monty Python"), the beautiful Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Sting (in a small role), and Robin Williams, give great roles that heighten the film's epic insanity! Great visual effects give the film a true sense of reality. Definitely a film for Gilliam and Fantasy fans! Movie/DVD Grade: A-Movie Review: Incredible movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Witness "Amadeus" as a fantasy movie! "Baron Munchausen" has all the look and feel of the Milos Forman film, but with a fabulist, dream-like edge to it! You truly feel like you're in the 18th century, with all the dust, frippery, social conventions and vanities intact. John Neville makes you forget he's a product of the 20th century completely, as he BECOMES the Baron.
The movie opens up with a play-within-a-movie, staged while a battle is going on right outside its doors, as a troupe of actors tell the tale of the great and, they think, purely legendary Hieronymus Frederick Baron Von Munchausen. After some comical mishaps in the staging, the "real" Baron walks in, calling them all charlatans and blackguards for bollixing up his life story. Henry Salt and his daughter, Sally, head the troupe staging the play.
Little Sarah Polley is great for her age as the spunky little heroine, Sally Salt, but ALL the players are in the right frame of mind for their parts! Eric Idle, for instance, leaves all his Monty Python irreverence, but not ALL of his comic zaniness, behind as the super-swift Bertholdt AND the actor Desmond. He is the only Pythoner in the movie, however. My boy, the late, lamented Oliver Reed, parlays the Roman god Vulcan as a gruff pirate type who rides herd over a horde of unionized Cyclopses up on Mt. Olympus. He gets truly jealous when the Baron dances with his wife, Venus. The late Jack Purvis is good as the diminutive Jeremy and Gustavus, who, despite his size, can blow up a whirlwind and hear a pin drop 1000 miles away. Charle McKeown plays one of the Baron's other sidekicks, complementing Gustavus, as Adolphus, the eagle-eyed sharpshooter who wears coke-bottle spectacles. An unknown in the States, Winston Dennis, plays Albrecht, the strongman. The right, honorable Gordon Sumner, aka Sting, plays a noble soldier who is ordered executed for his devout service to the corp in the war against the Turks by a pompous, TRULY anal-retentive ambassadorial bean counter played by Jonathan Pryce.
You have to wonder with this film...what is a product of the Baron's or Sally's vivid imaginations and what really happened. The balloon ride could have happened, but that trip to the moon couldn't have! (BTW, the art direction for the "King Of The Moon" portion is truly amazing, as is the very authentic feel of the theater setting at the beginning.) The meeting with the sultan, which the Baron relates is the reason that his country is fighting the Turks throughout the film, could be real, but Bertholdt running like the wind over the course of a 1000 miles to fetch an exceptional wine before the Baron gets his head chopped off couldn't be. The meeting with Vulcan and Venus is totally fantastic, and is obviously the product of the Baron's fertile imagination.
However, all of it is enjoyable, as this mysterious incarnation of the very person the actors in the play that opens the film are telling the tale of pops up out of nowhere, proclaiming he's back from the dead with improbable tales that he proceeds to demonstrate are actually true to little Sally. He then takes the little moppet on a trip in a balloon, made out of ladies underwear, to the moon and beyond.
This is perhaps Terry Gilliam's best film outside of the Python movies: the art direction is gorgeous and authentic for the time, the acting is bang-on, and the characters loveable. This is a film for families and kids with very fertile imaginations and play-lifes...and is actually based on a character from genuine literature!
You could do LOTS worse! Highly recommended!