In his original sleeve notes Zappa described the album as "a movie for your ears."

David describes Head Cases as a 75 minute movie divided into 5 minute webisodes.

Mr. Altman describes it as "a bad movie about making bad films."

The film was described by Newsweek as "a movie without melodrama or movie-star lighting.

It has been described as an anti-war movie by British newspaper The Guardian.

"Defender of the Crown" is described as an interactive movie.

He described the film as a "movie that never convinces us that it needed to be made."

Yakin describes it as a movie about the failure of the family and inability to change your past.

"Kippur" might be described as an anti-war movie.

The critical consensus describes the film as "a lifeless, occasionally creepy movie that gives romantic comedies a bad name".