Frank Zappa 200 Motels R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 14, 2018
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: MVD Marquee Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank Zappa, Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr & The Mothers of Invention | |
Performer: | Keith Moon, George Duke, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston & Pamela Des Barres | |
Directed by | Tony Palmer & Frank Zappa | |
Music by | Frank Zappa | |
Screenplay by | Frank Zappa | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Palmer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
The film is a marvelous whirl of color and visual effects, with some fine animation and Zappa's delicious wit present throughout the entire production.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
It assaults the mind with everything on hand.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A real dinosaur.
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Time Out
200 Motels may pass for sophistication in some quarters but sophomoric is a better description. It is a mixture of rock music and fantasy with very little story line.
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Cleveland Press
The incidents are often outrageously irreverent. The comedy is fast and furious, both sophisticated and sophomoric.
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Variety
Rating: 2.5/5 --
200 Motels has no particular focal point, being principally an anthology of poor jokes and spectacular audio-visual effects, a few of which might expand the mind, but all of which, taken together, are like an overdose of Novocain.
New York Times
Zappa's most ambitious compositions (performed by the London Philharmonic) share screen time with nostalgic freak humor.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Less a movie than a purposely crude series of musical vignettes and inside jokes for die-hard fans, Frank Zappa informs viewers in the opening scene that "Touring can make you crazy, ladies and gentlemen, and that is what 200 MOTELS is all about." The rest of the plot-less production is filled with more self-reflexive reminders, as the close-up eye and tape recorder signal that Zappa is watching everything his bandmembers are doing. Reasonably, the Mothers of Invention make up the cast, notably Jimmy Carl Black, who repeatedly remarks how he just wants to quit the band and go play real music, have a beer, and get laid. The character of Jeff, played by Martin Lickert, was written for bassist Jeff Simmons, who actually did quit the band just prior to shooting. Other cast members include real-life groupies appearing in some bizarre nudity sequences, along with the Who's drummer Keith Moon as the Hot Nun who overdoses on drugs. Ringo Starr appears as Larry the Dwarf and lends some humorous narration, but that does not clarify any of the proceedings. The action supposedly takes place in Centerville, which is really a kind of poorly dressed set guarded by soldiers. The scenes are randomly assembled and interspersed with performances, including the songs "Lonesome Cowboy Burt," "Magic Fingers," and "Strictly Genteel."
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 15,242
- UPC: 760137131298
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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