The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in his eye, by the grand John Neville." Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and found that it was "told with a cheerfulness and a light touch that never betray the time and money it took to create them", appreciating "the sly wit and satire that sneaks in here and there from director Terry Gilliam and his collaborators, who were mostly forged in the mill of "Monty Python"". While considering the film's special effects as "astonishing", Ebert also contended "the movie is slow to get off the ground" and "sometimes the movie fails on the basic
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen various films including "Baron Munchausen's Dream" (1911, Georges Méliès), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1943, Josef von Báky with script by Erich Kästner), "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" (1961, Karel Zeman), and "The Very Same Munchhausen" (1979) directed by Mark Zakharov, who depicted Munchausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him. The film was over budget; what was originally $23.5 million, grew to a reported $46.63 million. Gilliam, acknowledging he had gone over budget, said its final costs had been nowhere near $40 million. In "The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen" (included on