This ecapist piece of crypto-propaganda - it came out when Nazi-Germany had just lost Stalingrad - does have its good sides, but there are aspects I definitely did not like. Let me first get the negatives out of the way. I don't mind so much that the film was produced on Göbbels's orders and that it offered audiences a respite from the mounting bad news from the front. What is worse is that the plot is episodic, with the episodes following each other in a way that feels clunky. In other words, there is no proper narrative arc where suspense builds up and problems sketched at the outset are being solved toward the end of the film. The framing story set in the present is probably intended to provide something of this kind but largely fails to do so: To make it succeed, it would have been necessary to flesh out its characters far more. The one redeeming thing about the plot is its ending: I won't tell, but it lends the film some gravitas. All other aspects are fine. The acting is good (Hans Albers is in top form), photography is excellent, and the production values are impressive (the Nazis were, after all, trying to outdo 'The Thief of Baghdad'). Moreover, the lack of prudishness feels refreshing if you are used to films produced under the Hays code. All in all, my impressions of 'Münchhausen' are somewhat mixed, but the positives outweigh the downsides by quite a bit. Hence 7 stars.