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This Is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 12, 2000
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer & Michael McKean | |
Performer: | Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, Bruno Kirby, June Chadwick, Fran Drescher, Anjelica Huston, Ed Begley, Jr., Howard Hesseman, Billy Crystal, Paul Schaffer, Dana Carvey & Patrick Macnee | |
Directed by | Rob Reiner | |
Screenwriting by | Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner & Harry Shearer | |
Produced by | Karen Murphy |
Entertainment Reviews:
For music biz insiders, This Is Spinal Tap is a vastly amusing satire of heavy metal bands.
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Variety
Rating: 4.5/5 --
It stays so wickedly close to the subject that it is very nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
New York Times
5 stars out of 5 -- TAP's legend still runs....Endlessly quotable gags fly fast and a whiff of plausibility pervades...
Total Film
The material is consistently clever and funny, though ultimately the attitudes are too narrow to nourish a feature-length film.
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Chicago Reader
...Stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer play fools as only wise men can...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: A+ --
[VIDEO] Although examples of the mockumentary genre existed before "Spinal Tap" this heavy metal comedy is considered an epitome of cinematic satire.
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ColeSmithey.com
...[The movie is] required viewing in every musician's tour bus...
USA Today
Product Description:
A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, respectively--three clueless, self-absorbed men who form the nucleus of Spinal Tap, aging purveyors of overwrought songs with titles such as "Big Bottom," "Smell the Glove," and "Sex Farm." Shot in faux cinema verité-style with director Rob Reiner as fictional filmmaker Marty DiBergi, the film lampoons just about every rock & roll cliché (not to mention every rockumentary cliché) in the book as it follows these fallen rock idols from one disastrous gig to the next. Scenes of the tour's descent from desperation into total collapse are interspersed with interviews in which the band members delightfully prattle on inanely about the none-too-illustrious history and dubious vision of Spinal Tap. THIS IS SPINAL TAP is a striking and acutely hysterical directorial debut for Reiner and a deserved cult classic. Watch for an endless array of cameos by wonderful comic character actors along the way.
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- Sales Rank: 34,182
- UPC: 027616852809
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