200 Motels - Kritik

Dave: Hi Larry, it's good to have you back on our panel.
Larry The Dwarf: Hi Dave, it's really great to be back on your panel.
Dave: I'm sure the people at home would be interested to know why such a large dwarf as you is all dressed up like Frank Zappa. Tell us Larry, eh . . . what's the deal?
Larry The Dwarf: He made me do it, Dave. He's such a creep. He's making me hold this alladin.
Dave: And why is he making you do that, Larry?
Larry The Dwarf: He wants me to fuck the girl with the harp.
Dave: He wants you to fuck the girl . . . with the harp?
Larry The Dwarf: No, no, with the magic lamp. He wants me to stuff it up her and rub it. Hm. Hm-hm-hm. Ho-ho-ho, ha-ha. A-HA-HA-HA-HO-HO.
Dave: Let's ask our studio audience. If you'd just been lowered down here on TV by a wire connected to a brown leather harness, forced by a crazy person to insert a mysterious, imported lamp into the reproductive-rep-rep-rep into-into the rep-rep-reproductive orifice of a lady harpist and you were a dwarf . . . would you do it?
Larry The Dwarf: YES!!!
Chorus: Yay!
Dave: Let's spin the big wheel, Larry! Go ahead, give it a whirl!
Narrator: What our studio audience doesn't know is that the reason Larry the Dwarf is doing all this stuff is because it's all part of the score to "200 Motels". Every word, every action, the lamp, the reproductive orifice, it's all in the score, so he has to do it. This whole event is a fantasy that occurred touring on the road. Touring can make you crazy, ladies and gentlemen. That is precisely what "200 Motels" is all about.

Was für ein Film. In "200 Motels" geht es vordergründig um eine Rockband, die gerade am Touren ist und deren Mitglieder langsam durchdrehen. Der Rest lässt sich mit Worten aber kaum mehr beschreiben: Groupies, als Nonnen verkleidete Typen, Hamburger, extrem verfälschte Farben, irre Schnitte, selbstironische Dialoge ("I should have never joined the Mothers"), Ringo Starr mit Aladinlampe, Drogen, Zeichentricksequenzen mit Donovan und einer Art Donald Duck und über allem das wachsame Auge von Frank persönlich.
Das alles ist der pure Wahnsinn. "200 Motels" ist zwar, trotz seiner überschaubaren Laufzeit, relativ anstrengend, aber um überhaupt glauben zu können, was sich in diesem Film abspielt, muss man ihn gesehen haben, und für alle Frank Zappa Fans ist dieses Werk sowieso Pflicht.

Hier kann man übrigens alle Dialoge nachlesen, was praktisch ist, da die DVD keinerlei Untertitel besitzt: http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videos/200_Motels.html#v00620