This Is Spinal Tap

Pros: Aluminum foil penile implants will not escape airport security detection.
Cons: There’s nothing wrong with being sexy, but being sexist is another matter altogether.

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 ...

Pros: laugh at this movie and make a buddy
Cons: may be offensive to the humor impaired

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...

Pros: When it's good, this mockumentary is brilliantly funny
Cons: The deadpan humor sometimes leads to dead-space moments

“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...

Pros: Design, performances, humor, better with repeat viewings.
Cons: Not ALWAYS funny.

One of mockumentary This is Spinal Tap's finer aspects is its verisimilitude. On more than one occasion, someone has remarked to me, "Well, the movie's about Spinal Tap, the band, right? They are a real band." Clearly that person is wrong, but the ...

Pros: Funny and empathetic as ever, MGM's "Spinal Tap" DVD offers outstanding bonuses, in-character, no less.
Cons: Surely, you jest!

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF FLASHBACKS GO US ALL: In one dead-pan featurette on the MGM "Special Edition" DVD of 1984's ground-breaking documentary parody of the fall of an over-the-hill rock band, This is Spinal Tap, there's an "interview" ...

Pros: The humour mixes well with the reality
Cons: I wanted more, More, MORE!

MY REVIEW OF THE MOVIE PROPER

Director Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary', "This is Spinal Tap", might just be the funniest movie I know. Mostly improvised, it follows what should be the last concert tour of a 20-years past its best-buy date...

Pros: Outrageously Funny...
Cons: But Doesn't Have Much of A Plot!

(NOTE: This is a review on This Is Spinal Tap, the original film.)

I have a friend (who may or may not be imaginary -- I have yet to decide) who knew of the rock group Spinal Tap, but never realized that they were a...

Pros: an all too truthful parody of a touring rock band
Cons: not everyones subject matter

One of the problems with films that are parodies of a subject is that it requires a certain amount of knowledge of that subject by the viewer. To a large degree this is true of “This Is Spinal Tap”. Whilst some of the humour is based on the sheer ...

Pros: This movie is a "BLAST" not only from the past, but it can make your eardrums bleed
Cons: Not a one...take it for what it is and have fun!

In the tradition of rockumentaries, a genre unknown before the BEATLES, this movie has to rank as one of the top 10 best comedies of all time. I saw it first in 1983, channel surfing on cable. At first taken in, I kept thinking, hey, that guy looks like...

Pros: One of the funniest films ever made.
Cons: People who hate to laugh should stay away.

Pros: Unapologetic rock n' roll satire; the actors are actually great musicians
Cons: The introduction by Rob Reiner was a bit lame

Big Bottom. Sex Farm. Hell Hole. Are these appalling couplets of words descriptions of some seedy, underground nightclubs that house the sleaziest of the sleazy? Or perhaps the working titles of the latest pornographic films to hit ...

Pros: Superb, hilarious send-up of rock-music at its most pretentious
Cons: Some people still don't get the joke

In my humble opinion, This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is one of the funniest movies ever made, all the more so because of the deadpan seriousness with which its minimally talented leads take themselves. The movie is a send-up of rock-music ...

Pros: The funniest rock n' roll parody ever
Cons: Gaps of silence in between the laughter

In the midst of the loud rock era, somewhere caught in the spandex pants, flashy sets and really poor guitar solos, there was Spinal Tap, ready to rock with the best of 'em.

This is Spinal Tap, a Rob Reiner film, is a rock/mock-umentary...

Pros: great quotes for everyday life!
Cons: there are none

The 2000 release of the special edition of “This is Spinal Tap” may just have finally solved the origin of the herpes mouth sores seen on Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins, and Derek Smalls at their “Smell The Glove” album promotion party.

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Pros: Hilarious mockumentary with great dialogue and performances.
Cons: It's hard to find to buy it on DVD.

At the time it was made, Spinal Tap was inspired, a brilliant mockumentary that played right off of the self-indulgent rock star attitude fostered by MTV. The humor stands the test of time while managing to provide a poke in the eye at 80's hair...