Sunday, August 29, 2010

200 Motels (1971)


Directed by Tony Palmer and Frank Zappa
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(MGMHD)

Dated curio from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention plays more like a music video than a movie. A series of sketches are interspersed with live music performances. The actors are amateurs, after all they are musicians not actors, and it shows. Practically every scene is shot with some kind of ancient video effect, further dating the proceedings. Zappa himself has no speaking parts, but is occasionally glimpsed in the background and seems to be enjoying things.

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