Okay, so here's what I know. Please correct me, and add what you may know.
The movie was never officially "finished" so what was released on VHS in Spring of 1987 is more a "making of Uncle Meat" documentary than the actual movie -- but there is more than 100 minutes of material.
To date it has not been released on DVD. The videotapes have gotten rather scarce and expen$ive.
IMDB reviews are scathing:
Only for the true Zappa fanatic. I saw this three years ago, about two years into my newfound love for Zappa's music. To some extent, there is always some joy in seeing your heros on the screen- so I did not regret seeing it. But it's really bad. The movie was begun in the late sixties, and finished in the eighties. If I remember correctly , there are some musical performances which were alright. But there also were numerous lame sequences. A guy expresses his fantasy to be beaten by a toilet brush, somebody eats a cheeseburger while taking a shower, some woman repeatedly returns to the topic of a rubber chicken. Just lots of uninteresting would-be skits. Kind of like being stuck at some unknown relative's house watching home movies, but with even less narrative. Bad.
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