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# The Adventures of Baron Munchausen20th Anniversary Edition

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Director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) and an all-star cast including John Neville, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed and Uma Thurman deliver this tale of the enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.

Review: Imagination Triumphant! - A thrilling, lively Classical-era fanfare heralds the Columbia logo and signals high adventure and romance, as we open in "the late 18th Century", the "Age of Reason", on a "Wednesday." Already we know that we are in the universe of the man behind Brazil, Terry Gilliam as the expectation caused by the opening chords is quickly subverted by the grim wartime feeling of a starving city under siege by the Turks. Even death itself makes an early appearance, a black winged skeletal angel that will continue to show up throughout the film and which seems to presage an ominous and early end indeed for the characters we meet in the beginning. Young Sally is the daughter of a traveling actor (and head of his theatrical troupe) who plays the magical Baron Munchausen, a fabulous hero famed for his tall tales revolving around such feats as a trip to the moon and the theft of a sultan's treasure. The pathetic troupe puts on its poor mockery of theater in a disintegrating, cavernous building as the town's leader, the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson (note that title), only to be upstaged by the "real" Baron (John Neville), a drunken and crazy old man - with a real and sharp sword - who proceeds to tell the story of how the town got into this mess.... Gilliam's film is the summation of all of his work as director up until this point, blending the childhood wonder of Time Bandits, the satire on bureaucracy and the feeling for the importance of imagination in the face of hopeless "rationality" of "Brazil", the broad humor of Monty Python and the references to Alice in Wonderland and medieval romance and tall tales of "Jabberwocky". Most of the film charts in a relatively linear way the adventures of the (real) Baron and Sally as they fly off in a balloon made of ladies' underwear in search of Munchausen's four fabulous servants - all of whom we have glimpsed in the opening scene, denying that they are anything but actors. Is the Baron crazy? Is the child Sally the only one who believes him, or in fact the only one who can experience his exploits, or save him from death? The film explores these and many other questions of storytelling and belief and the Baron grows more youthful with success, ages with failure -- as his friends seem at first not to recognize him, and then to be too old and feeble to help him. The baron himself loses faith at times, and only Sally is there to prop him up. At the end, a mind-boggling mixture of battles, triumph, death and funeral, resurrection and above all the Story of The Way It Should End all fuse into one of the most joyous and potent conclusions in film. The director draws on a wonderful array of sources for this film, which is certainly postmodern in the lightest yet most serious and beautiful sense - there are nods to "Alice in Wonderland", "The Wizard of Oz", "Pinocchio", Renaissance painting, "Cyrano de Bergerac" and the 1940 "Thief of Bagdad" among countless others, but the film never seems derivative or obvious; always it is focused on the pure joy of the tale and the strength and power of myth-making in the face of the tedium and joylessness represented by the unscrupulous and ultimately murderous Jackson - played with vicious glee by Jonathan Pryce in an ironic reversal of his role in Gilliam's previous film, "Brazil". The cast is uniformly fine -- some may be irritated by Sarah Polley's admittedly shrill Sally though it seemed an appropriate (and necessary) characterization to me -- with standouts being Pryce, Eric Idle as the fleet-footed but somewhat dimwitted Berthold, and John Neville as the Baron in one of the most unjustly slighted performances from a banner year for film. Giuseppe Rotunno's photography makes much more of an impact on the big screen for sure but it is certainly beautiful enough (particularly in the outdoors/sky sequences) even on the DVD; and Michael Kamen's score is one of my all-time favorites and possibly the best work in his film career. The dialog may strike some as odd, in its mixture of late-20th-century idioms (particularly when voiced by the King of the Moon, Robin Williams) and the more carefully "authentic" 200-year-old jargon of characters like Jackson -- but like most elements of the film, this is carefully designed to throw us off and keep our sense of what is real and not always in doubt. This is a film I've seen over and over - it scored a big impression when I saw it new, alas not on very many people - and it grows greater with each re-watch. Gilliam really manages here to articulate a very profound statement about how we are losing out way, about how the bottom line and the "rational" way of winning a war - or making a film - may in fact be heartless, cold, and ultimately more dead than the Baron seems to be just before the triumphant finish of the film. As much as I love "Brazil, this is easily my favorite Terry Gilliam film, and in its failure ultimately a signal for a new and less potent (though still interesting) direction in his work. A triumph then, and a tragedy - the film is the career, the career is the film.
Review: This dude was real?! - I'd never knew this guy actually existed in real life, more over, never knew there was a syndrome named after him either, "Munchausen Syndrome". Aside from that, this movie holds some bearing to it as a cult classic. I'll bet that at one point in time in everyone's life they've seen this movie but just cannot recollect the name of the title but can remember considerable elements of this movie that made it worthwhile to remember. Such was the case for me because I remember seeing this movie on cable television back in '96 on the Showtime channel which means it would air almost every other hour but I didn't have a problem with that at all! I loved this movie! It's a movie that plays on the simple fascination of fantasy and the innocence of the imagination in a world that's super-logical and ill-ridden with rules. Though dated, it still has one of the most memorable visuals I've ever seen which make it ever so charming in its conception. The history behind the creation of this film is a bleak one which compromises for so much of this movie's construction. To put it lightly, the movie had 100% the potential but was only given 45%... if it were given the full attention and care it demanded, this would probably be one of the greatest films of all time, however, complications occurred throughout the span of its lifetime and shares a similar fate to another movie, "The Thief and the Cobbler." History beside, this movie is a delightful addition to your movie base and a great movie to just sit down and enjoy to when you've absolutely got nothing else better to do but forget about the world you live in and enter Baron von Munchausen on one of his zany story-adventures. The movie itself houses some interesting ideas of story-telling which I can say have inspired me in many ways but those are personal notions regarding. Hooking back to the movie's visuals, allow me to detail one such scene which involves Uma Thurman, in probably one of her most memorable scenes filmed as an actress, and its her arrival on the scene in an illustrious, filmographic introduction to "The Birth of Venus". Really, words cannot describe how visually appealing that scene is, and with the play of music that goes on in it... augh... I'm still breathtaken by the wonderful imagery that was filmed with such intimacy and care.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B0011E5RXO |
| Actors  | Charles McKeown, Eric Idle, John Neville, Oliver Reed, Sarah Polley |
| Aspect Ratio  | 1.85:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #14,347 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #7,174 in Blu-ray |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,140) |
| Director  | Terry Gilliam |
| Dubbed:  | French |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 16219 |
| Language  | English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1) |
| MPAA rating  | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Media Format  | Blu-ray |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Producers  | Thomas Sch�hly |
| Product Dimensions  | 6.75 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 0.01 ounces |
| Release date  | April 8, 2008 |
| Run time  | 2 hours and 6 minutes |
| Studio  | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Subtitles:  | English, French, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai |

## Product Details

- **Format:** Blu-ray
- **Genre:** Family, Sci-Fi
- **Initial release date:** 1989-03-10
- **Language:** English

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Imagination Triumphant!
*by M***H on September 21, 2009*

A thrilling, lively Classical-era fanfare heralds the Columbia logo and signals high adventure and romance, as we open in "the late 18th Century", the "Age of Reason", on a "Wednesday." Already we know that we are in the universe of the man behind Brazil, Terry Gilliam as the expectation caused by the opening chords is quickly subverted by the grim wartime feeling of a starving city under siege by the Turks. Even death itself makes an early appearance, a black winged skeletal angel that will continue to show up throughout the film and which seems to presage an ominous and early end indeed for the characters we meet in the beginning. Young Sally is the daughter of a traveling actor (and head of his theatrical troupe) who plays the magical Baron Munchausen, a fabulous hero famed for his tall tales revolving around such feats as a trip to the moon and the theft of a sultan's treasure. The pathetic troupe puts on its poor mockery of theater in a disintegrating, cavernous building as the town's leader, the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson (note that title), only to be upstaged by the "real" Baron (John Neville), a drunken and crazy old man - with a real and sharp sword - who proceeds to tell the story of how the town got into this mess.... Gilliam's film is the summation of all of his work as director up until this point, blending the childhood wonder of Time Bandits, the satire on bureaucracy and the feeling for the importance of imagination in the face of hopeless "rationality" of "Brazil", the broad humor of Monty Python and the references to Alice in Wonderland and medieval romance and tall tales of "Jabberwocky". Most of the film charts in a relatively linear way the adventures of the (real) Baron and Sally as they fly off in a balloon made of ladies' underwear in search of Munchausen's four fabulous servants - all of whom we have glimpsed in the opening scene, denying that they are anything but actors. Is the Baron crazy? Is the child Sally the only one who believes him, or in fact the only one who can experience his exploits, or save him from death? The film explores these and many other questions of storytelling and belief and the Baron grows more youthful with success, ages with failure -- as his friends seem at first not to recognize him, and then to be too old and feeble to help him. The baron himself loses faith at times, and only Sally is there to prop him up. At the end, a mind-boggling mixture of battles, triumph, death and funeral, resurrection and above all the Story of The Way It Should End all fuse into one of the most joyous and potent conclusions in film. The director draws on a wonderful array of sources for this film, which is certainly postmodern in the lightest yet most serious and beautiful sense - there are nods to "Alice in Wonderland", "The Wizard of Oz", "Pinocchio", Renaissance painting, "Cyrano de Bergerac" and the 1940 "Thief of Bagdad" among countless others, but the film never seems derivative or obvious; always it is focused on the pure joy of the tale and the strength and power of myth-making in the face of the tedium and joylessness represented by the unscrupulous and ultimately murderous Jackson - played with vicious glee by Jonathan Pryce in an ironic reversal of his role in Gilliam's previous film, "Brazil". The cast is uniformly fine -- some may be irritated by Sarah Polley's admittedly shrill Sally though it seemed an appropriate (and necessary) characterization to me -- with standouts being Pryce, Eric Idle as the fleet-footed but somewhat dimwitted Berthold, and John Neville as the Baron in one of the most unjustly slighted performances from a banner year for film. Giuseppe Rotunno's photography makes much more of an impact on the big screen for sure but it is certainly beautiful enough (particularly in the outdoors/sky sequences) even on the DVD; and Michael Kamen's score is one of my all-time favorites and possibly the best work in his film career. The dialog may strike some as odd, in its mixture of late-20th-century idioms (particularly when voiced by the King of the Moon, Robin Williams) and the more carefully "authentic" 200-year-old jargon of characters like Jackson -- but like most elements of the film, this is carefully designed to throw us off and keep our sense of what is real and not always in doubt. This is a film I've seen over and over - it scored a big impression when I saw it new, alas not on very many people - and it grows greater with each re-watch. Gilliam really manages here to articulate a very profound statement about how we are losing out way, about how the bottom line and the "rational" way of winning a war - or making a film - may in fact be heartless, cold, and ultimately more dead than the Baron seems to be just before the triumphant finish of the film. As much as I love "Brazil, this is easily my favorite Terry Gilliam film, and in its failure ultimately a signal for a new and less potent (though still interesting) direction in his work. A triumph then, and a tragedy - the film is the career, the career is the film.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This dude was real?!
*by A***R on October 7, 2007*

I'd never knew this guy actually existed in real life, more over, never knew there was a syndrome named after him either, "Munchausen Syndrome". Aside from that, this movie holds some bearing to it as a cult classic. I'll bet that at one point in time in everyone's life they've seen this movie but just cannot recollect the name of the title but can remember considerable elements of this movie that made it worthwhile to remember. Such was the case for me because I remember seeing this movie on cable television back in '96 on the Showtime channel which means it would air almost every other hour but I didn't have a problem with that at all! I loved this movie! It's a movie that plays on the simple fascination of fantasy and the innocence of the imagination in a world that's super-logical and ill-ridden with rules. Though dated, it still has one of the most memorable visuals I've ever seen which make it ever so charming in its conception. The history behind the creation of this film is a bleak one which compromises for so much of this movie's construction. To put it lightly, the movie had 100% the potential but was only given 45%... if it were given the full attention and care it demanded, this would probably be one of the greatest films of all time, however, complications occurred throughout the span of its lifetime and shares a similar fate to another movie, "The Thief and the Cobbler." History beside, this movie is a delightful addition to your movie base and a great movie to just sit down and enjoy to when you've absolutely got nothing else better to do but forget about the world you live in and enter Baron von Munchausen on one of his zany story-adventures. The movie itself houses some interesting ideas of story-telling which I can say have inspired me in many ways but those are personal notions regarding. Hooking back to the movie's visuals, allow me to detail one such scene which involves Uma Thurman, in probably one of her most memorable scenes filmed as an actress, and its her arrival on the scene in an illustrious, filmographic introduction to "The Birth of Venus". Really, words cannot describe how visually appealing that scene is, and with the play of music that goes on in it... augh... I'm still breathtaken by the wonderful imagery that was filmed with such intimacy and care.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A BLOODY GOOD MOVIE!
*by D***T on January 9, 2025*

Historically based on a real person: this movie takes you back to the times of the 'Terrible Turks" and their invasion of Europe/Germany-Austria, et al. It's a historical adventure of some real events -- mixed in with much hyperbole, some fantasy and humor! Lots of european scenery and history -- and entertaining.

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