An interesting book; though I must say the first half is markedly better than the second, hence the three stars. It's like Raspe (erm, I mean, the Baron) was trying a different strategy in the secornd part of the book; to tell a continuous narrative with events that are only loosely connected: it becomes far too complicated and I was starting to glaze over.
The first part, however, is genius. The Baron Munchhausen, he is the MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD. That Dos Equis man, has nothing on him. There is no moral to these stories, they're just tall tales, but with the movie it can be extrapolated about a time of imaginative storytelling, where things don't have to make sense. We've seemed to lose this today, where even fantasy shows are subject to the instant scrutiny of wikifact checkers, and plot holes are never left for the sake of the narrative. However, I am out of place with this nostalgia, but it seems to me, someone today sitting around a table of grog with friends telling tales of the same magnitude would be ignored, heckled with aggression, or treated as annoying, instead of his stories being enjoyed for their sake. Shut up, the hockey game's on.