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This Is Spinal Tap
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Sex Farm Woman
There was a time in my life when I had one hard and fast rule: If you don?t think Spinal Tap is funny, you cannot be my friend. At that time I believed that lack of appreciation for such a cinematic masterpiece showed a serious deficit of character, a total lack of appreciation for humor and... Read full review »
Spinal Tap: Turn the Volume Up to 11
?The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.?
That?s what one poison-penned critic wrote about the long-haired hard rock group Spinal Tap.
I, on the other hand, lay down my pen, flick my Bic...
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THIS IS SPINAL TAP ; A Blissfully Engrossing Ascension to the Pinnacle of Documentary Filmmaking
The documentary as an art form is an oft-overlooked and seldom commercially viable medium. This is rather surprising, actually, with the viewing public's newfound fascination with "reality TV" and the constant blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality with such hits as "Survivor" and "The... Read full review »
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This Is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD
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 verit-style with director Rob Reiner as fictional filmmaker Marty DiBergi the film lampoons just about every rock roll clich not to mention every rockumentary clich 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-illustrio us 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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This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition) [VHS]
You're about to get personal with one of music history's greatest and loudest heavy metal bands, Spinal Tap! Whether or not you're a die-hard fan of the group, you'll love this detailed "rockumentary" of Engand's legendary Spinal Tap. Acclaimed commercial director Marty DiBergi takes you behind the scenes for an intimate look at a band whose time has come and gone and come again and.... Through interviews, rare footage and lots of musicincluding classic Tap tunes like "Big Bottom" and "Hell Hole"you'll get acquainted with David St. Hubbins (lead guitar), Nigel Tufnel (lead guitar), Derek Smalls (lead bass) and every drummer who ever livedand diedfor this renowned rock band. Be a part of the sights, sounds and smells of this celebrated heavy metal phenomenon. It's an experience you'll never forget.
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| Stars | Michael McKean | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Actors | Rob Reiner | |
| Directors | Rob Reiner | |
| UPC | 027616852410 | |
| Genre | Comedies | |
| Subgenre | Recommended • Rock Documentaries • Spoof • Satire • Essential Cinema • Classic | |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) | |
| Release Date | 1984 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 33min | |
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| Original Language | English | |
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| Screenwriter | Michael McKean | |
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| (03/02/1984, p.C6, Janet Maslin): "...A witty, mischievous satire, and it's obviously a labor of love....Delightful..." | ||
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"There's such a fine line between stupid and..."--David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) "...And clever."--Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) "The numbers all go to eleven. Look...right across the board."--Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), explaining the volume controls on his amplifiers "Ahh...oh, I see..."--Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) "Eleven...eleven...eleven..."--Nigel "And most of these amps go up to ten."--Marty "Exactly."--Nigel "Does that mean it's...louder? Is it any louder?"--Marty "Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"--Nigel "Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"--Marty "[Pause]... These go to eleven."--Nigel "'How much more black could this be?' And the answer is: 'None...none more black.'"--Nigel "'On what day did God create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day also?'"--Marty, reading a review of Spinal Tap's latest album "'They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry."'--Marty, reading more from the review "That's...that's nit-picking, isn't it?"--Nigel "The official cause of death is he died of choking on vomit. It wasn't his own vomit. He choked on somebody else's vomit."--Nigel "I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really, it's like a Mach piece, really."--Nigel "What do you call this?"--Marty "Well, this piece is called 'Lick My Love Pump.'"--Nigel "I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf."--David |
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