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Smartly directed, brilliantly acted, and packed with endlessly quotable moments, This Is Spinal Tap is an all-time comedy classic. Read critic reviews
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"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Comedy, Music
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Original Language: English
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Director: Rob Reiner
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Producer: Karen Murphy
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Writer: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Box Office (Gross USA): $188.8K
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Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Production Co: Spinal Tap Prod.
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Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby Stereo, Surround
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.66:1)
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Rob Reiner's directorial debut is one of the funniest movies of the 1980's and it oddly enough summed up hard rock/heavy metal's popularity in a mocking manner. "This is Spinal Tap" is about a fictional band named Spinal Tap, a band with the distinction of being called "The World's Loudest Band." A band that loses most of their drummers to strange mishaps including one who choked on someone else's vomit. A band that really never had a hit but follows whatever is popular at the moment. They started out in the skiffle craze that swept Britain before becoming a rock and roll band, then psychedelia and settling on heavy metal where they sort of stuck in that genre for over a decade. At the core of this story is the three main band members, David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). David and Nigel are like brothers but when David's girlfriend Jenny (June Chadwick) it causes a lot of tension among the bandmembers. They are attempting a comeback tour and filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) is there to film this tour and the chaos and comedy that ensures. It's a film that is so absurd, so fun and so enjoyable to watch that one can't even fathom this may not be a real band. Their songs are good, albeit offensive at times.
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Welcome to my 400th review since March 2011! What better movie to take a look at other than 'This is Spinal Tap'. A cult classic. These guys put on a fantastic show over a brief 80 minutes thanks to Rob Reiner's astute portrayal of the rock and roll lifestyle. It's considered a rockumentary. A coined term for this special genre. The laughs are hearty and the dialogue is easily quotable. If you're a lover of music and have taken classes about the history of rock like I did, you'll easily recognize every little nuance they interpret from some of the most famous bands. The one part that slayed me was the Stonehenge bit. It's cleverly written pieces like this that make you look back on what cinema was like back in the day and you only wish there was more like this on a consistent basis.
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From Rob Reiner comes the laugh-out-loud rock-n-roll mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer star as the British heavy metal band Spinal Tap as they launch their latest album with an American concert tour. The comedy is hysterical and quite clever in how it satirizes the stereotypes associated with rock-n-rock bands. And, the music itself is pretty good and feels like the heavy metal of the '70s and '80s. Still, at times the film's a little too cartoony and rushes the story. This Is Spinal Tap has some issues, but overall it's a lot of fun and provides plenty of laughs.
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The 80s cult mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, doesn't have a striking appeal with me. Stylistically it's interesting for the films to satire rock stereotypes, and make the all around setting feel real. Interviewing to dope rock leaders, whose band is getting a "more exclusive audience". I actually never did laugh in this film, I lightly exhaled from my mouth making a "psh" sound, but I never actually had a real chuckle come out of this. It's not the most special of films, but it is decent. It's a film to watch midnight Saturday after drinking some red bulls, that was not the setting I was in.
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