This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition) R

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This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
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  • 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)

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For music biz insiders, This Is Spinal Tap is a vastly amusing satire of heavy metal bands. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
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
May 20, 2003
5 stars out of 5 -- TAP's legend still runs....Endlessly quotable gags fly fast and a whiff of plausibility pervades...
Total Film
Oct 1, 2009
The material is consistently clever and funny, though ultimately the attitudes are too narrow to nourish a feature-length film. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 17, 2007
...Stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer play fools as only wise men can...
Entertainment Weekly
May 23, 2003
Rating: A+ -- [VIDEO] Although examples of the mockumentary genre existed before "Spinal Tap" this heavy metal comedy is considered an epitome of cinematic satire. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Apr 14, 2011
...[The movie is] required viewing in every musician's tour bus...
USA Today
Jun 2, 2000

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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  • UPC: 027616852809
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