Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is probably the baddest trip you'll ever get from a movie

tavm

After years of reading about this movie, I finally saw 200 Motels on Netflix Streaming. Conceived by Frank Zappa, this is perhaps one of the baddest trips I've taken watching weird movies from the late '60s/early '70s. I mean, Zappa only appears during the musical numbers which happen to be the best parts of this film. There's also Ringo Starr playing an actor playing Zappa, Keith Moon as the "hot nun", and Theodore Bikel as the devil. Oh, and Flo and Eddie, formerly of The Turtles, are among the members of Frank's Mothers of Invention and they get the deserved most screen time of the group. The people I mentioned have their charms (well, maybe not Moon whose characterization I really don't understand) but the whole thing is just soooo incomprehensible to the point that I kept pausing the film to see how much time was left. But it's really worth seeing at least once if you want to get it out of your system. So on that note, 200 Motels gets a fair warning from me of what you should expect if you dare...

score 4/10

tavm 24 July 2011

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2463686/