Baron Münchhausen you dog you!

I have to say, the film was difficult to get into, the story line was choppy, and many of the things that were evidently supposed to be funny were clearly lost on me. However, I will gladly admit that it was rather innovative. The way the film was set up to have a modern narrator that in turn happened to be the "ancestor" he was telling stories about was particularly creative. Moreover, the "tall tales" he relayed to the audience, individually (I still think the lack of a conclusive storyline took away from the film) were intriguing. I think the reason that I was so pleased with the creativity level of this film was because it was such a contrast to all the rigid Nazi films we have seen prior. Not that they were rigid in the cinematic techniques, but that they were all framed in "real life." The imagination of the way the narrator/main character Munchhausen was presented was refreshing. The level of risqué comedy was shocking, I never expected to see that much skin in a Nazi film. However, at the risk of getting off topic, I think the thing that surprised me most was the extent to which special effects were used. The way Marian just miraculously disappears was very cool, and the levitation, disappearing, sprinting runner all of these effects were cinematic elements I did not expect to see in a movie from this era. The film at the end of the day was just fun, it got the audiences minds churning about to story itself, and not about the problems of the outside world. In that respect I was impressed.