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
Uma Thurman and the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British "Vogue". She made the transition to acting with her film debut, the teen thriller "Kiss Daddy Goodnight", which was released in 1987. Thurman was subsequently cast in three 1988 films — "Johnny Be Good", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and most notably, "Dangerous Liaisons". In the comedy "Johnny Be Good", she played the girlfriend of a top high school quarterback prospect, and in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", she made a brief appearance as goddess Venus; during her entrance she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli's "The Birth