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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9781559408752
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
ISBN: 1559408758
Label: Criterion
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 08, 1998
Running Time: 82 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: March 02, 1984
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Director Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) solemnly alerts us to the glory that was Spinal Tap in his introduction to this "rockumentary" about the legendary British heavy-metal group, featuring lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), lead singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and a succession of drummers whose careers were cut short by spontaneously combusting on their stool, drowning in somebody else's vomit, or otherwise perishing in untimely fashion. Under DiBergi's studious interrogation, the band and their familiars retrace the band's evolution from head-bopping Mersey Beat poseurs to head-banging metal poseurs, each change in musical direction or tonsorial chic having little effect on the surviving trio's sublime idiocy. For, as St. Hubbins (he's the "deep" one, relatively speaking) sagely observes, "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
Happily for us, director Reiner, who developed the underlying story line with Guest and former Credibility Gap pranksters McKean and Shearer, stays squarely on the right side of the line, even as his writer-actors remain hilariously trapped on the other side. In lieu of a formal shooting script, the quartet created an extensive and detailed band history ripe with the sort of dead-pan detail that hard-core rock historians and screwball aficionados will savor on countless replays; with the three Tap members also musicians themselves, the "band" developed its stage act under the unsuspecting noses of L.A. club denizens, who accepted them as just as loud, flashy, sexist, and obvious as any other mullet-tressed, leather-garbed brigade of guitar slingers, circa 1984. The resulting footage thus manages to lob its punch lines and build its characters (including some thinly veiled character assassinations of various industry folks) with a loose, tossed-away verve rooted in the improvisational approach. This Is Spinal Tap remains the funniest, and most truthful, look at rock culture ever filmed and a personal best for all involved. --Sam Sutherland
Description:
Rob Reiner's directorial debut has developed into a cult phenomenon. The film that invented the "rockumentary" has now outlasted most of the bands it mocked. Following the ill-fated American comeback tour of an aging heavy metal group, this film has joined the ranks of the greatest comedies ever made.
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Every line in this movie is funny. If you're a musician, you have been in all these situations. If you're not a musician, well, emmm...
So what about the festival on the Isle of Lucy? What is that about? ('I Love Lucy' the Lucille Ball show?)
Etc Etc Etc.
They even mocked the big loudest amps and the stupid vintage instrument craze. Indeed, if a guitar can no longer be considered 'true vintage' if the tuners have been replaced, then how can it be considered ... Read More
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Spinal Tap is a classic! One of the funniest movie of all time. On a scale of 1-10 how much I enjoyed this movie, it was an 11!
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1. I'm into rock, classic rock and since this is one of those classic rock films--> I finally decided I needed to check this out.
2. I admit that I'm lacking in... something, but I just don't get this film. It's kind of funny, but more so, it's just... dumb. But I'm willing to acknowledge to the knowledge of the masses that perhaps there is something magical about this film, it just eludes me.
Rating:  -
We are treated to a mock band which is a cross between heavy metal and rock-and-roll. The narrator Marty DiBergi (Meat Head ... oops Rob Reiner) carries us through a sort of cerebral humor like Bud Abbott Lou Costello's "who's on first" opposed to pure slapstick. This film is quite unique and fun for 15 minutes. Then it repeats it's self over and over and over. Then it just sort of stops.
This presentation looks more like a roll call for unemployed actors. Of course there is always one ... Read More
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I am a huge Tap fan, and when I heard that the Blu-Ray version was to include the commentary from the Criterion Collection version, I eagerly paid early to get on the waiting list for this release. After waiting several months for the Blu-Ray, I realize it's been a waste. The Blu-Ray DOES NOT contain that commentary; rather, it is the same (albeit hilarious) commentary from the special edition DVD release from a few years ago. The only new material is a concert video for Stonehenge (trying lamely to ... Read More
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