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* BigWhat: When Sally tells Vulcan (with no small amount of spite) that the Baron is kissing his wife.
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-->'''Vulcan:''' I mean, [[LittleWhat what?]]
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* OneSceneWonder: RobinWilliams as The King Of The Moon (credited as [[StageNames Ray D. Tutto]]) among others. The Baron doesn't stay in one place long enough for anyone to get more than one scene. Uma Thurman as Venus also stands out (though she is also part of the AndYouWereThere actresses in the theatrical BookEnds).
** It should also be noted that RobinWilliams ' ''entire performance'' was ad-libbed. Let's hear it for cocaine!
** It should also be noted that RobinWilliams ' ''entire performance'' was ad-libbed. Let's hear it for cocaine!
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* OffWithHisHead: The Sultan neatly cuts off his assistant's head with his scimitar - but it's PlayedForLaughs as not only is it bloodless, but the head lands in the lap of a concubine and ''winks at her''.
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The film is something of a MindScrew, as the viewer is never really sure if what's happening is "really happening" and whether or not that "really matters." Due to a TroubledProduction, it was [[BoxOfficeBomb 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 and a massive Critical Success. Today it is considered one of Gilliam's best movies ([[Film/Brazil ([[Film/{{Brazil}} and that's]] [[12Monkeys [[TwelveMonkeys saying]] [[FearAndLoathingInLasVegas quite a lot]].)
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The film is something of a MindScrew, as the viewer is never really sure if what's happening is "really happening" and whether or not that "really matters." Due to a TroubledProduction, it was [[BoxOfficeBomb 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.mounted and a massive Critical Success. Today it is considered one of Gilliam's best movies ([[Film/Brazil and that's]] [[12Monkeys saying]] [[FearAndLoathingInLasVegas quite a lot]].)
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* {{Fanservice}}: UmaThurman stepping out of a giant clamshell naked, à la Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".
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The film is something of a MindScrew, 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, TroubledProduction, it was [[BoxOfficeBomb 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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* SerialRomeo: The Baron, naturally. During the movie his fancies are such as the Russian royalty, the goddess of Love Venus, the theater troupe women, the Queen of the Moon...the list goes on.
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* HairTriggerTemper: The Sultan does not take the news that his treasury has been completely emptied by his gues very well, beheading his treasurer on the spot and supposedly starting the whole war that acts as the main plot for the movie, in attempt to kill Munchausen.
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* BizarreInstrument: 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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Creator/TerryGilliam's fourth solo directorial effort, from 1988. It's a paean to whimsy and the irrational. Like ''TheSandman'', 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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
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Creator/TerryGilliam's fourth solo directorial effort, from 1988. It's a paean to whimsy and the irrational. Like ''TheSandman'', ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', 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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous{{tall tale}} TallTale teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous
* TallPoppySyndrome: Mr. Jackson has [[TheCameo Sting]] executed for excessive heroism, because it's demoralizing to the mediocre people of the town.
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* TallPoppySyndrome: Mr. Jackson has [[TheCameo Sting]] executed for excessive heroism, because it's demoralizing to the mediocre people of the town.
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TerryGilliam's fourth solo directorial effort, from 1988. It's a paean to whimsy and the irrational. Like ''TheSandman'', 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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
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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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of the "Dreamer Trilogy": ''TimeBandits'' represents childhood, ''{{Brazil}}'' ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' represents adulthood, ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' represents old age.
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* LampshadeHanging: "This is precisely the sort of thing that nobody ever believes."
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-->[[SophisticatedAsHell "Cogito Ergo Est. I think, therefore you is."]]
-->[[SophisticatedAsHell "Cogito Ergo Est. I think, therefore you is."]]
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->''Everyone who had a talent for it lived HappilyEverAfter.''
->--'''Baron Munchausen'''
TerryGilliam's fourth solo directorial effort, from 1988. It's a paean to whimsy and the irrational. Like ''TheSandman'', 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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
The film is something of a MindScrew, 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 [[BoxOfficeBomb 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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* TheAce: Baron Munchausen.
* AndYouWereThere: Many of the actors in the theater troupe bear striking resemblances to people in the Baron's "real" adventures (an example of ActingForTwo).
* AxeCrazy: The [[RobinWilliams King of the Moon]] gets like this if you mess with his wife.
** The Baron himself with his sword in the theater.
** Vulcan also gets like this. Given that the Baron was openly flirting with, and then kissing, his wife (and that Venus wasn't known for being the most faithful wife in Greek mythology), yeah.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Well, not really, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchhausen Munchhausen was a real person]] (who accumulated his tall tales while fighting as a mercenary, mostly for the Russians against the Turks).
* BerserkButton: Doctor?! ''No doctors!''
* BigLittleMan: The Baron and friends fall on a pit and see Vulcan, the God of Fire, towering above them. It's only when he pulls them out of the pit that they see that Vulcan is a head shorter than the Baron.
* BilingualBonus: While Robin Williams spouts off the occasional random phrase in Italian as the King of the Moon, he was listed as "Ray D. Tutto," which in Italian (''re di tutto'') means "King of everything".
* TheCameo: [[ThePolice Sting]] shows up as the Heroic Soldier... who gets executed for being ''too good.''
* CloudCuckooLander: the King of the Moon, aka RobinWilliams.
* CoolHorse: Bucephalus.
* CoolOldGuy: The Baron and all of his friends (with the exception of Sally) at one point or another.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD cover includes Venus' face alongside Berthold's and the Baron's, and it lists UmaThurman as one of the three main stars. In fact, Venus is a OneSceneWonder with very little impact on the plot--even if UmaThurman is the biggest name in the cast other than RobinWilliams (who appears uncredited).
* CrapsackWorld: The nameless European city under constant bombardment from the Turks is this.
* DeathSeeker: He doesn't admit it, but he enjoys death - it's implied he enjoys it because it makes for a good story.
-->'''Baron:''' And that was only one of the ''many'' occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I don't ''hesitate'' strongly to recommend!
* DivineDate: narrowly averted with Venus.
* EmpathicEnvironment: And ''how''.
* FiveManBand:
** [[TheMunchausen Baron Munchausen]] as TheHero
** [[FragileSpeedster Berthold]] as TheLancer
** [[CoolOldGuy Gustavus]] as the SmartGuy
** [[BoisterousBruiser Albrecht]] as the BigGuy
** [[TheKid Sally]] as TheChick
** [[ImprobableAimingSkills Adolphus]] as TheSixthRanger
* GentleGiant: Albrecht doesn't really like being the BigGuy, and would rather serve tea. Or so he claims.
* GentlemanAdventurer: The Baron and his friends.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The king is ahem... "tickling her feet".
** Averted in that the king actually was tickling her feet. FetishFuel anyone?
** "You're with that little man! You told me size doesn't matter!"
*** Also, "I have no ''time'' for flatulence and orgasms!!"
* TheGrimReaper
* HappilyEverAfter:"Everyone - who had a talent for it - lived happily ever after."
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[EricIdle one of the]] [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Pythons]] as the Baron's right hand man, and [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Governor Swan]] as the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Adolphus pulls of some [[RuleOfCool truly ludicrous]] shots.
* InvisibleAdvertising: Where the U.S. release was concerned.
* KnightTemplar: Mr. Jackson
* LargeHam: Everyone (excluding Sally).
* TheMunchausen: Trope Namer. (More specifically, based on the legends of the trope namer.)
* NestedStoryReveal: turns out [[spoiler:most of the movie]] was a story cooked up by Munchausen. [[spoiler:[[RealAfterAll Or maybe not.]]]]
* NippleAndDimed: A notable subversion. Although [[MsFanservice Venus]]' introduction shows some rather interesting anatomy at the bottom edge of the screen, the movie itself is rated PG. [[FetishFuel And did we mention that Venus is played by]] UmaThurman?
* OneSceneWonder: RobinWilliams as The King Of The Moon (credited as [[StageNames Ray D. Tutto]]) among others. The Baron doesn't stay in one place long enough for anyone to get more than one scene. Uma Thurman as Venus also stands out (though she is also part of the AndYouWereThere actresses in the theatrical BookEnds).
** It should also be noted that RobinWilliams ' ''entire performance'' was ad-libbed. Let's hear it for cocaine!
* ParentalBonus: 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 [[{{Fanservice}} Venus']] [[NakedOnArrival introduction]] a lot more interesting than the kids.
* PublicDomainCharacter
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: It was all just a story being told in the theatre...]]
** 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 MindScrew continues.
**** The battle was long gone. Hardly "recent".
* RuleOfCool: Absolutely everything. A waltz in the air with the goddess of love, flying to the moon in a hot air balloon, climbing constellations, and that's just in the first hour.
** Riding a cannonball, the one thing guaranteed in every version of the story of Baron Munchausen.
* RuleOfFunny: It's highly improbable that you could make a hot air balloon out of ladies' undergarments, but that doesn't mean Munchausen can't.
* SandIsWater: On the moon, at least.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the Studio]]: The film received virtually no pre-launch publicity and appalling distribution.
* SeriousBusiness: "This isn't a joke! It's a wager!"
* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of the "Dreamer Trilogy": ''TimeBandits'' represents childhood, ''{{Brazil}}'' represents adulthood, ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'' represents old age.
* SwallowedWhole: 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.
* TallPoppySyndrome: Mr. Jackson has [[TheCameo Sting]] executed for excessive heroism, because it's demoralizing to the mediocre people of the town.
* TricksterArchetype: The Baron
* UglyGuyHotWife: Vulcan and Venus. It's a bit of a DeconstructedTrope, as, though Vulcan is obviously proud of his beautiful young wife, it's just as clear that they're making each other ''miserable''.
* WarElephants: The Grand Turk uses elephants to propel his War Machines. The Baron gets them to back off with the strategic use of mice.
* WheelOFeet: Used when Berthold runs off to Austria for a bottle of wine.
* WheresTheFunInThat
-->'''Baron Munchausen:''' What's this?
-->'''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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->--'''Baron Munchausen'''
TerryGilliam's fourth solo directorial effort, from 1988. It's a paean to whimsy and the irrational. Like ''TheSandman'', 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 theatre company is staging a dramatic retelling of the life of famous {{tall tale}} teller Baron Munchausen. The play is interrupted by the ''real'' Baron, who describes what really happened to cause this war -- namely, the Turks are after him. The Baron has come to the city to die, but is convinced by Sally Salt (the head of the theatre company's daughter) to instead save the city from the onslaught of The Grand Turk, as well as the forces of reason and mediocrity. Wackiness ensues.
The film is something of a MindScrew, 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 [[BoxOfficeBomb 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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!!Provides examples of:
* TheAce: Baron Munchausen.
* AndYouWereThere: Many of the actors in the theater troupe bear striking resemblances to people in the Baron's "real" adventures (an example of ActingForTwo).
* AxeCrazy: The [[RobinWilliams King of the Moon]] gets like this if you mess with his wife.
** The Baron himself with his sword in the theater.
** Vulcan also gets like this. Given that the Baron was openly flirting with, and then kissing, his wife (and that Venus wasn't known for being the most faithful wife in Greek mythology), yeah.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Well, not really, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchhausen Munchhausen was a real person]] (who accumulated his tall tales while fighting as a mercenary, mostly for the Russians against the Turks).
* BerserkButton: Doctor?! ''No doctors!''
* BigLittleMan: The Baron and friends fall on a pit and see Vulcan, the God of Fire, towering above them. It's only when he pulls them out of the pit that they see that Vulcan is a head shorter than the Baron.
* BilingualBonus: While Robin Williams spouts off the occasional random phrase in Italian as the King of the Moon, he was listed as "Ray D. Tutto," which in Italian (''re di tutto'') means "King of everything".
* TheCameo: [[ThePolice Sting]] shows up as the Heroic Soldier... who gets executed for being ''too good.''
* CloudCuckooLander: the King of the Moon, aka RobinWilliams.
* CoolHorse: Bucephalus.
* CoolOldGuy: The Baron and all of his friends (with the exception of Sally) at one point or another.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD cover includes Venus' face alongside Berthold's and the Baron's, and it lists UmaThurman as one of the three main stars. In fact, Venus is a OneSceneWonder with very little impact on the plot--even if UmaThurman is the biggest name in the cast other than RobinWilliams (who appears uncredited).
* CrapsackWorld: The nameless European city under constant bombardment from the Turks is this.
* DeathSeeker: He doesn't admit it, but he enjoys death - it's implied he enjoys it because it makes for a good story.
-->'''Baron:''' And that was only one of the ''many'' occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I don't ''hesitate'' strongly to recommend!
* DivineDate: narrowly averted with Venus.
* EmpathicEnvironment: And ''how''.
* FiveManBand:
** [[TheMunchausen Baron Munchausen]] as TheHero
** [[FragileSpeedster Berthold]] as TheLancer
** [[CoolOldGuy Gustavus]] as the SmartGuy
** [[BoisterousBruiser Albrecht]] as the BigGuy
** [[TheKid Sally]] as TheChick
** [[ImprobableAimingSkills Adolphus]] as TheSixthRanger
* GentleGiant: Albrecht doesn't really like being the BigGuy, and would rather serve tea. Or so he claims.
* GentlemanAdventurer: The Baron and his friends.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The king is ahem... "tickling her feet".
** Averted in that the king actually was tickling her feet. FetishFuel anyone?
** "You're with that little man! You told me size doesn't matter!"
*** Also, "I have no ''time'' for flatulence and orgasms!!"
* TheGrimReaper
* HappilyEverAfter:"Everyone - who had a talent for it - lived happily ever after."
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[EricIdle one of the]] [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Pythons]] as the Baron's right hand man, and [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Governor Swan]] as the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Adolphus pulls of some [[RuleOfCool truly ludicrous]] shots.
* InvisibleAdvertising: Where the U.S. release was concerned.
* KnightTemplar: Mr. Jackson
* LargeHam: Everyone (excluding Sally).
* TheMunchausen: Trope Namer. (More specifically, based on the legends of the trope namer.)
* NestedStoryReveal: turns out [[spoiler:most of the movie]] was a story cooked up by Munchausen. [[spoiler:[[RealAfterAll Or maybe not.]]]]
* NippleAndDimed: A notable subversion. Although [[MsFanservice Venus]]' introduction shows some rather interesting anatomy at the bottom edge of the screen, the movie itself is rated PG. [[FetishFuel And did we mention that Venus is played by]] UmaThurman?
* OneSceneWonder: RobinWilliams as The King Of The Moon (credited as [[StageNames Ray D. Tutto]]) among others. The Baron doesn't stay in one place long enough for anyone to get more than one scene. Uma Thurman as Venus also stands out (though she is also part of the AndYouWereThere actresses in the theatrical BookEnds).
** It should also be noted that RobinWilliams ' ''entire performance'' was ad-libbed. Let's hear it for cocaine!
* ParentalBonus: 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 [[{{Fanservice}} Venus']] [[NakedOnArrival introduction]] a lot more interesting than the kids.
* PublicDomainCharacter
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: It was all just a story being told in the theatre...]]
** 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 MindScrew continues.
**** The battle was long gone. Hardly "recent".
* RuleOfCool: Absolutely everything. A waltz in the air with the goddess of love, flying to the moon in a hot air balloon, climbing constellations, and that's just in the first hour.
** Riding a cannonball, the one thing guaranteed in every version of the story of Baron Munchausen.
* RuleOfFunny: It's highly improbable that you could make a hot air balloon out of ladies' undergarments, but that doesn't mean Munchausen can't.
* SandIsWater: On the moon, at least.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the Studio]]: The film received virtually no pre-launch publicity and appalling distribution.
* SeriousBusiness: "This isn't a joke! It's a wager!"
* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of the "Dreamer Trilogy": ''TimeBandits'' represents childhood, ''{{Brazil}}'' represents adulthood, ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'' represents old age.
* SwallowedWhole: 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.
* TallPoppySyndrome: Mr. Jackson has [[TheCameo Sting]] executed for excessive heroism, because it's demoralizing to the mediocre people of the town.
* TricksterArchetype: The Baron
* UglyGuyHotWife: Vulcan and Venus. It's a bit of a DeconstructedTrope, as, though Vulcan is obviously proud of his beautiful young wife, it's just as clear that they're making each other ''miserable''.
* WarElephants: The Grand Turk uses elephants to propel his War Machines. The Baron gets them to back off with the strategic use of mice.
* WheelOFeet: Used when Berthold runs off to Austria for a bottle of wine.
* WheresTheFunInThat
-->'''Baron Munchausen:''' What's this?
-->'''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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