Intercontinental Absurdities
Directed by Frank Zappa
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Ostensibly a Frank Zappa concert at the Palladium in New York City around Halloween of 1977. However, there is also a lot of time devoted to animator Bruce Bickford and his hypnotic claymation pieces. Zappa's music speaks for itself, and the musicianship is impeccable, though he does seem to have a juvenile fascination with sex and weird voices. Bassist/vocalist Roy Estrada is hilariously over-the-top and easily the funniest person in a cast of crazies, though watching him with a sex doll and knowing he would later go to prison for sexual assault on a child, including one of the dates of these very same concerts, does put things in a different perspective.
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