Truly Scrumptious the children leave, she watches them and sings about her love for Caractacus ("Lovely Lonely Man") before returning to her family mansion. The next day Truly and the Potts family encounter some unexpected and comical attempts to take their car, before being overtaken by the airship belonging to Baron Bomburst, the ruler of Vulgaria. The Baron wants Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his own, and kidnapped Caractacus' father under the mistaken impression that he is the one who created the unusual car. The airship is returning to Vulgaria with Grandpa Potts, where the Baron plans to hold him hostage until
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