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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301963923
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630196392X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: March 17, 1993
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 628
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1971
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It has a good beat...I give it 3 stars, [...]
Your level of enjoyment will probably depend on how much you appreciate Zappa and his particular brand of [...]. As a movie musical, it seems at times to be a parody of the genre while simultaneously stretching the form well beyond its normal parameters. There are a few genuinely hilarious laugh-out-loud moments, and I love the incidental orchestral music that accompanies and perfectly complements some of the scenes, but I was no fan of the Flo & Eddie era Mothers, so most of the band stuff ... Read More
Rating: - Cult Classic that preaches to the choir
If you know nothing about this movie, there are a few facts you should be aware of before watching that help mitigate the usual hatred this movie elicits:
1) It had a budget of $700,000. Of that, $400,000 went directly to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, so effectively this movie had a budget of $300,000.
2) It had a shooting schedule of five 8-hour days.
Given these two tourniquet-like limitations, it is amazing that Zappa got ANYTHING done, let alone this ... Read More
Rating:  - zappa for the ages
...when released in the psychedelic '60's, was mentioned as the first piece of "electro-cinematography", filmed in video with electronic effects, and then transfered to celluloid.
A strange and eclectic cast playing strange and eclectic people, the images are varied and held together loosely by a minimal theme. A definite Zappa commentary on life, Amerika, rock & roll, good/evil, man, the devil and the human condition. If you don't like Zappa, you definitely will not like it.
It ... Read More
Rating: - In its sense, criminally bad, but arguably one of the best things I've ever seen
I've never seen anything that comes close. Zappa's Varese- and Boulez-influenced compositional moments are astoundingly beautiful, and the depth of the strangeness of the rest of the enterprise is truly unplumbable. There are a lot of experimentish film exercises somewhat in the same mode, by other people, that came out of the same period, but I've never seen anything in that mode that actually grabs your attention and richly rewards it in the way "200 Motels" does. It kept replaying in my head after ... Read More
Rating: - I'm so commercial I could die!!!
Flo and Eddie. Ringo Starr. Theodore Bikel. Keith Moon. And a vacuum cleaner.
This is a failure and a success at the same time. It was a total product of its times, and had very surreal moments that almost defy description.
It's a Zappa fun fest.
Too many good moments grace this movie. The naked groupies trying to comfort a depressed nun (who happens to be Keith Moon), the elixers, the Mystery Roach, Lonesome Cowboy Burt (speaking at'cha), Rance Muhammitz, Strictly ... Read More
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