This Is Spinal Tap Collection

Christopher Guest

Michael McKean

Harry Shearer

Rob Reiner

Valerie Franco

CJ Vanston

Jean Cromie

Kerry Godliman

Garth Brooks

Trisha Yearwood

June Chadwick

Fran Drescher

Griffin Matthews

Paul Shaffer

Elton John

Paul McCartney

David Furnish

Chad Smith

Chris Addison

Kathreen Khavari

Lars Ulrich

Questlove

Nina Conti

Robert Walker Branchaud

Brad Williams

Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña

John Michael Higgins

Don Lake

Little Freddie King

Henry Diltz

Lincoln Else

Bob Joyce

Michele Reiner

Matthew George

Derrick Rossi

Hernan Narea

Jonathan Fuhrman

Christopher H. Warner

Frank Marshall

Chad Oakes

Michelle C. Harmon

Music

Comedy

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Castle Rock Entertainment

United States of America

CinemaSerf

I don’t know about the spirit of “Spinal Tap”, but the spirit of the much-loved “Victor Meldrew” - in the guise of “David St. Hubbins” (Michael McKean) is alive and well here! A better and more curmudgeonly companion for the newly married and cheese-shop owning “Nigel” (Christopher Guest) and glue-museum curator “Derek” (Harry Shearer) you couldn’t ask for as they reunite at the behest of the producer “Martin DeBergi” (Rob Reiner) for a last fly-on-the-wall to accompany their forthcoming one-night-only gig in New Orleans. If you thought the “Bros” movie (2018) showcased what happens when things don’t go well in a band, well you’re in for something altogether more acerbic as poor old “Derek” tries his best to mediate between his two sparring partner colleagues, whilst all three have to put up with the moronic interventions of their aptly named record company man “Howler” (Chris Addison) who wouldn’t know a drum kit from a Kit Kat. With tensions mounting and reminiscences differing, their recording sessions get underway in earnest and thanks to a few contributions from musical knights Paul McCartney and Elton John as well as Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks, who knows but “Stonehenge” could be played to the baying fans just once more? It’s a bit of a slow starter, this film, but once they’ve got themselves into gear and we start to hear their music as well as their bickering, the film starts to shine a little like the first outing from forty-odd years ago. The dialogue is pithy and funny, the lyrics to the songs would never have passed the code censors as euphemisms galore appear verbally and visually to cement the original creative tackiness of the concept. There’s an entertaining chemistry between McKean and Guest, Sir Elton joins in with some gusto (if perhaps not with the most convincing acting you’ll ever have seen) and it just goes to show that these ageing rockers still have what it takes to send up an industry that is riddled with parasitic hangers-on, old grudges and died-in-the-wool fans who’d turn up to the opening of an envelope. It hasn’t quite the sharpness of the original 1984 outing, but you still have to ask what chance their eleventh (or is it twelfth) drummer “Didi” (Valerie Franco) will make it through to the credits? Good fun!

English

Rob Reiner Reminisces on 'Spinal Tap' and How He Got Elton John & More Legends to do 'Spinal Tap II'

Took a turn and ended up at the Spinal Tap II: The End Continues premiere.

We don’t need it, but we love it.

The wait is over. The henge has risen.

Thought it was over? The end continues.

Spinal Tap hates different, or whatever the kids say.

Here lies David St. Hubbins... and why not?

42 years is a lot of time to wait for the end to continue

Liquid Death x Spinal Tap 11-Pack

Could you be Spinal Tap's new drummer?

Spinal Tap Play with Big Mic | IMAX® Behind the Frame

Big in music ✅ Big in film ✅

What’s at the bottom of that urn?

But have you ever been double Spinal Tap’d?

Where can we buy a mini Stonehenge? Spinal Tap play Myth or Merch

Are you ready for their exuberance & their punctuality?

It’s not a mb3.

Spinal Tap II: The Legacy Continues

Do you still hear the sustain? Listen to it.

They said best leave them… unsolved.

Lukewarm water doesn’t go bad, does it?

A lesson in rock and roll in under 11 seconds.

The puppet show is not included with your ticket.

Featurette

Spinal Tap, Elton John - Stonehenge ft. Elton John (Official Video)

Hello Cleveland... wait, San Diego! We indeed did have a good time, all the time at Comic Con.

Official Trailer

Teaser