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...ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Lovers waltz in midair, a servant (Eric Idle) outruns a speeding bullet, and the King of the Moon (Robin Williams) literally loses his head in this wonder-filled fantasy from Terry Gilliam, late of Brazil...
...ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN Directed by Terry Gilliam...
...truculent and never truckle, had earlier fought Universal Pictures when it was reluctant to release his film Brazil -- a masterpiece at a mere $15 million. This time he would run up a higher tab -- say, $17 million to $20 million over budget -- and into bigger trouble. David Puttnam, Munchausen's Hollywood sponsor, soon departed as boss of Columbia. Film Finances Inc., which stepped in to supervise the picture, threatened to fire Gilliam if he didn't scale back on the spiraling costs. A producer sued Columbia, claiming that five years ago it agreed to a Munchausen project based...
...Gilliam's picture worth all the fuss? Sure, because he has tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling...
Everything about Munchausen deserves exclamation points, and not just to clear the air of the odor of corporate flop sweat. So here it is! A lavish fairy tale for bright children of all ages! Proof that eccentric films can survive in today's off-the-rack Hollywood! The most inventive fantasy since, well, Brazil! You may not believe it, ladies and gentlemen, but it's all true...