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{{quote|''Everyone who had a talent for it lived [[Happily Ever After]].''|'''Baron Munchausen'''}}
 
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The film is something of a [[Mind Screw]], as the viewer is never really sure if what's happening is "really happening" and whether or not that "really matters." Due to a troubled production, it was [[Box Office Bomb|a notorious flop]] at the time (the combined losses for this and ''[[Ishtar]]'' are what caused Columbia Pictures to merge with TriStar), but it's beautifully mounted.
 
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* [[The Ace]]: Baron Munchausen.
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Adolphus pulls of some [[Rule of Cool|truly ludicrous]] shots.
* [[Invisible Advertising]]: Where the U.S. release was concerned.
* [[Jabba Table Manners]]: The King of the Moon has atrocious manners; he eats with his hands, talks with his mouth full, and uses his sleeve for a napkin, getting more food on his robes than in his actual mouth.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Mr. Jackson
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: "This is precisely the sort of thing that nobody ever believes."
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