YMMV / Karel Zeman

• Genius Bonus: On one level most of Zeman's work is kid-friendly fare, but it tends to go a lot deeper than that. For instance, Baron Munchausen could be described as a fantasy/adventure love story ... but the script is bursting at the seams with sophisticated wordplay, there are visual and narrative references to everything from Gustave Doré to Jules Verne to Cyrano de Bergerac, and the whole thing becomes a winkingly played debate about the dignity of the human imagination and the need for art and poetry in a science-obsessed world. Eat your heart out, Tom Stoppard.