This Is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 14, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1984
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 127,021
Rating: A -- This is Spinal Tap is hilarious to everyone who's not a musician. Because as ridiculous and perverse as Rob Reiner's heavy metal mockumentary gets, the slim, 82-minute comedy gnaws at more truths than any other rock 'n' roll biopic put to celluloid. Full Review
Consequence of Sound
Mar 2, 2019
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
...Funny, devastatingly clever and original....As funny a film about the intersection of music and popular culture as has ever been made...
Los Angeles Times
Sep 8, 2000
For music biz insiders, This Is Spinal Tap is a vastly amusing satire of heavy metal bands. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Consistently funny, with sheer brilliant turns from every performer on the cast... Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Jan 19, 2013
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 movie is brilliant at telling its story....There are a lot of great visual jokes...
Chicago Sun-Times
Sep 15, 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.

Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

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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  • Sales Rank: 37,606
  • UPC: 883904132585
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