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BrettHarrison's Review
Summary - Really Great 4.5 click to collapse contents
If I was teaching a college class in parodies, I would make this hilarious movie required viewing.
Rob Reiner’s 1st movie as a director, it is a “mockumentary” about the fictional British hard rock group Spinal Tap.
It manages to be a great parody of not only pompous rock documentaries that take their subjects way too seriously but also of British hard rock groups at the time. There is not one false note(pun intended) in the whole movie.
If I can pinpoint what makes this movie work is that you get the sense that Reiner and the other writers Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer have a genuine love for the music. How many times have we scene spoofs of rock music that fail because there is a disdain for the subject. Such is not the case here.