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Review
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Fascinating, rambunctious account of adventures of Baron
Munchausen in the "Age of Reason". Scary at times, for
kids. In a fortified town fighting for its life against an
invading Turkish army, an actor performs a dramatization of
the life of the Baron, complete with the usual
exaggerations. The Baron himself shows up, however, and
drives the actors from the stage, and decides to tell the
true story of his adventures, which are even more
far-fetched than those of the impresario. Like Gilliam's
Brazil, Munchausen is wildly imaginative, and often
brilliant. And sometimes the gags misfire. Behind all the
adventures, the question of whether a life lived by Reason
is worth living at all. The Baron's enchanting adventures
seem far more interesting than the dreary life under the
bureaucrats who run the town.
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