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{{quote|''Everyone who had a talent for it lived [[Happily Ever After]].''|'''Baron Munchausen'''}}
[[Terry Gilliam]]'s fourth solo directorial effort, from 1988. It's a paean to whimsy and the irrational. Like ''[[The Sandman]]'', it's about how stories are more important than "what really happened" and rationality.
It is the Age of Reason, and there's a war on. Somewhere Austria-y is at war with The Grand Turk. In a city on the border of this war, a rag-tag
The film is something of a [[Mind Screw]], as the viewer is never really sure if what's happening is "really happening" and whether or not that "really matters." Due to a troubled production, it was [[Box Office Bomb|a notorious flop]] at the time (the combined losses for this and ''[[Ishtar]]'' are what caused Columbia Pictures to merge with TriStar), but it's beautifully mounted.
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* [[The Ace]]: Baron Munchausen.
* [[And You Were There]]: Many of the actors in the theater troupe bear striking resemblances to people in the Baron's "real" adventures (an example of [[Acting for Two]]).
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* [[Crapsack World]]: The nameless European city under constant bombardment from the Turks is this.
* [[Death Seeker]]: He doesn't admit it, but he enjoys death - it's implied he enjoys it because it makes for a good story.
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* [[Divine Date]]: narrowly averted with Venus.
* [[Empathic Environment]]: And ''how''.
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*** Also, "I have no ''time'' for flatulence and orgasms!!"
* [[A God Am I]]: The King of the Moon, "Re di tutto."<ref> "But you can call me Ray."</ref>(literally "King of Everything").
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* [[The Grim Reaper]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]:"Everyone - who had a talent for it - lived happily ever after."
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Adolphus pulls of some [[Rule of Cool|truly ludicrous]] shots.
* [[Invisible Advertising]]: Where the U.S. release was concerned.
* [[Jabba Table Manners]]: The King of the Moon has atrocious manners; he eats with his hands, talks with his mouth full, and uses his sleeve for a napkin, getting more food on his robes than in his actual mouth.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Mr. Jackson
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: "This is precisely the sort of thing that nobody ever believes."
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* [[Parental Bonus]]: The movie manages to get away with a PG rating in spite of some pretty saucy sexual innuendo in the scene with the King of the Moon, including the King calling the Queen a "puttana" (Italian for "whore") at one point. And the adults in the audience probably found [[Fan Service|Venus']] [[Naked on Arrival|introduction]] a lot more interesting than the kids.
* [[Public Domain Character]]
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|It was all just a story being told in the
** It's implied that Horatio Jackson {{spoiler|was lying about a war, just to get the townspeople to ration money and food and pocket the excess.}} But that would be the ''rational'' explanation.
*** Except that {{spoiler|we still see the clear remains of some sort of recent battle outside, even though the fighting had been going on when the story began}}. So the [[Mind Screw]] continues.
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Part of the "Dreamer Trilogy": ''[[Time Bandits]]'' represents childhood, ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'' represents adulthood, ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' represents old age.
* [[Swallowed Whole]]: The Baron and Sally get eaten by a whale, only to find a functioning inn, and a few of the Baron's old friends! And his horse, somehow.
* [[Tall Tale]]: Subverted -- it appears the Baron's stories were true, after all. [[Mind Screw|Or are they?]] After all, the whole film is a Tall Tale told by Mr. Gilliam...▼
* [[Tall Poppy Syndrome]]: Mr. Jackson has [[The Cameo|Sting]] executed for excessive heroism, because it's demoralizing to the mediocre people of the town.
▲* [[Tall Tale]]: Subverted -- it appears the Baron's stories were true, after all. [[Mind Screw|Or are they?]] After all, the whole film is a Tall Tale told by Mr. Gilliam...
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: The Baron
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Vulcan and Venus. It's a bit of a [[Deconstructed Trope]], as, though Vulcan is obviously proud of his beautiful young wife, it's just as clear that they're making each other ''miserable''.
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* [[Wheel-O-Feet]]: Used when Berthold runs off to Austria for a bottle of wine.
* [[Where's the Fun In That?]]
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'''Vulcan:''' Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.
'''Baron Munchausen:''' Ah! What does it do?
'''Vulcan:''' Do? Kills the enemy. [snip] Well, you see, the advantage is you don't have to see one single one of them die. You just sit comfortably thousands of miles away from the battlefield and simply press the button.
'''Berthold:''' Well, where's the fun in that? }}
* [[Xenophone]]: The Sultan's "organ" is attached to a cage full of prisoners, and each key pokes a certain prisoner with a given pointy object to get the right tone of scream.
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