The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in his eye, by the grand John Neville." Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and found that it was "told with a cheerfulness and a light touch that never betray the time and money it took to create them", appreciating "the sly wit and satire that sneaks in here and there from director Terry Gilliam and his collaborators, who were mostly forged in the mill of "Monty Python"". While considering the film's special effects as "astonishing", Ebert also contended "the movie is slow to get off the ground" and "sometimes the movie fails on the basic
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen most exciting experiment so far in animation and in combining different techniques ... The Méliès influence is present throughout the film, which reaches the same level of poetry as the works of that old master." "Le Monde"s film blog called Zeman's technique "perfectly fitted" ("parfaitement adaptée") to the Baron Munchausen stories, and described the result as "endowed with a splendid sense of humor and very inventive" ("doté d’un bel humour et très inventif"). The film historian Peter Hames described "Baron Prášil" as "perhaps [Zeman's] finest film." When the film was screened at the British Film Institute in the 1980s, it