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A snapshot dive into a crazy imagination

Advantages: Great use of a crazy imagination! Very funny!
Disadvantages: Comes accross as slightly low budget

...by some. Slightly out of the ordinary. Personally though... it had me in creases of laughter, and has become a personal favourite! The film is about a Baron. The Baron. The Baron Munchausen. The Baron is considered as a fictional character, who has several friends with exceptional abilities, such as strength, sight, hearing etc. A play cast are half way through a performance of his adventures when the real Baron turns up and relates his own account ...
...in places such as on the moon (which they fall off), with Vulcan the God (who's wife the Baron seduces), and in the middle of a full scale war, defending a city. The cast stars Eric Idle, who was made popular mainly by the "Monty Python" series, but he has also starred in several other comedy films, giving them the finishing flourish they need, and this is certainly true of "The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen". My advice? Buy the film. You won't ...

uncleharris 13.11.2006 · Read full review
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Back To The Future/One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest!

Advantages: Time travel
Disadvantages: Monkeys

...as The Army Of The Twelve Monkeys in the last days of the twentieth century and are determined to avert this downfall of man by........................................yes you guessed it- sending Bruce back in in time to thwart the attack. When back in the twentieth century Willis is promptly thrown into an asylum after proclaiming to be from the future! Though this turns out to be a stroke of luck as the leader of The Army of The Twelve Monkeys, ...
...fact that he is a 'genuine' nutter. Willis's psychiatrist provides the love interest as they both try to outwit the terrorists and avoid the authorities hunting them. This is a superb, quirky film with a kind of a cross between Back to the Future and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest feel to it and I would highly recommend it. ...

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Can you put a price on your dreams?

Advantages: Brilliant cast, amazing special effects, simply magical
Disadvantages: Not for everyone, plot lost in all the magical aspects

...makes his money by entertaining the public in a mysterious theatre show. Along with his daughter, Valentina, and helpers Anton and Percy, the team travel around in their wagon which unfolds to be their stage. The audience are given the chance to step inside a magical mirror where Dr Parnassus will control them and allow them to step inside their own imagination. But when the Devil arrives at Dr Parnassus' door, he claims that he has come to collect ...
...win is Valentina. The Devil offers Dr Parnassus a new deal - through his mirror, he must find and give the Devil five souls. So the unlikely team, including the new arrival of Tony, a mysterious man with no memory, set about to find five willing people to step inside the mirror in the hope of saving Valentina. ~ Cast ~ Dr Parnassus - Christopher Plummer Valentina - Lily Cole Anton - Andrew Garfield Percy - Verne Troyer Devil - Tom Waits Tony - Heath ...

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Plenty of Imagination, but No Depth

Advantages: A plethora of ideas.
Disadvantages: The paucity of execution and lack of coherent story.

The immortal Doctor Parnassus and his travelling show offer his audience the chance to go beyond reality by passing through his magic mirror. There the participants choose between the path to enlightenment and temptation. It is all part of a deal the Doctor struck with the devil millennia ago, but now Mr Nick (as he is also called) has come to collect on the bargain. As soon as Parnassus’ daughter Valentina turns sixteen, the devil will take her ...
...Tower Bridge and he joins the quest to save Valentina from the clutches of the devil. I have long been a fan of Terry Gilliam’s visual style but have been troubled by the nagging doubt that he doesn’t know how to marry style with narrative coherence. Let’s face it - the last film he made that had a decent storyline was “Twelve Monkeys”. Sadly his latest endeavour is another oeuvre buzzing with ideas but devoid of a comprehensible plot. Admittedly ...

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Advantages: Good special effects
Disadvantages: Need to pay special attention when seeing it, may lost the plot

...this film mainly because it's the last work of Heath Ledger. It is a fantasy that centers around Dr. Parnassus and his Imaginarium, a travelling show where audience can get in and fulfill all their fantasies which can be joyful or sad. Gifted with the ability to guide the imagination of others and getting into others thoughts, Dr. Parnassus was a monk in a remote monestery over centuries ago, he got a visit from the Devil. They discussed about life ...
...he won the game, he would have immortality. He won and been travelling around with his Imaginarium since then. After so many years of being on his own, he found the love of his life. Then the Devil offered him another deal. He would return Parnassus to his youth so that he could be with the woman he loved. In return, the Devil will take possession of their first born child when he/she turns 16. Parnassus got a daugher but also lost his wife during ...

medgenie 01.11.2009 · Read full review
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