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This Is Spinal Tap
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Customer rating:  Price range:$1.99 - $12.49A 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 verit?-style with director Rob Reiner as fictional filmmaker Marty DiBergi, the film lampoons just about every rock & roll clich? (not to mention every rockumentary clich?) 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 histo...
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Format: VHS, Release Company: New Line Home Video (April 29, 1992), UPC: 04... |
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Format: VHS: Special Edition, Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entert... |
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Format: DVD: Special Edition, Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entert... |
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