Director Rob Reiner is famous for many great movies but, in the world of rock at least, This Is Spinal Tap is his masterpiece. A rousing homage to cock-rock, ego-centrism, lyrics that are so shallow that, apparently, they're very deep and all things in between, This Is Spinal Tap is the Big Whopper of comedy rock movies (how many are there?).Also written by Reiner, accompanied by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer (the three Spinal Tappers), this movie is as funny as it gets because it takes the world of rock so not seriously that it makes a great big parody of it. Taking as background that Spinal Tap were a very famous band in the late 60's and during the 70's, the movie supposedly documents their "big comeback" tour, which ends up being a trainwreck across America.
All clichés have some screen time: dumb rockers who get really lost on their way to the stage; cucumbers stuck down pants so that the carrier's "package" is correspondingly well-endowed; "deep" conversations which seem to go around in circles from the very beginning; break-ups, reunions, you name it, it's there.
This Is Spinal Tap is not a movie for the whole family, but if you're a lover of rock music and haven't seen this movie... well, then you don't deserve to turn your amp all the way to 11.
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