Touted as "a movie about people who do stuff that is not normal", 'Baby Snakes' chronicles a late-'70s Halloween stand in New York City, with digressions throughout the first half for backstage antics, band interviews, and some outlandish clay animation from Bruce Bickford. Onstage, Zappa is on fire, the audience loving him as you'd expect, and the band - an especially potent incarnation of the famous Mothers of Invention - is tight as a cat's tail. The film amounts to a three-hour musical carnival whose participants lack any trace of artistic or personal inhibition. Zappa, who died in 1993, always worked with consummate musicians, and Baby Snakes showcases the cream of the crop: Drummer extraodinaire Terry Bozzio, bassist Patrick O'Hearn, keyboard wiz Tommy Mars, and prog star Adrian Belew. Zappa's intelligence and charisma shine throughout the film. Baby Snakes offers both a unique cultural education and musical master class.