This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Sick Product of a Sick System
Let's be realistic.
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
The greatest mockumentary ever! The best satirical take on the whole Rock N' Roll lifestyle. Chronicles the US tour of the "world's loudest band" Spinal Tap. During the tour everything that can go wrong will go wrong. The band, it's members and songs are absolutely hilarious. So many funny and memorable scenes and quotes it's pointless to name the best ones. This one goes up to eleven!
This movie can be Seen a 100 times and not be bored, Truly a class of its own. Don't believe me? Then Go ask Worlds most famous Rockstars, they will tell you the story. Not Only that i have also watched its follow ups and fake interviews, They kill it in every single One. It was way ahead of its time But Behind everything else.
This film is essentially about a so-called heavy metal group named "Spinal Tap" who have found that their customer base has been shrinking and have therefore launched a come-back tour to recapture their lost glory—as if they ever had any to begin with. Be that as it may, even though their new manager named "Ian Faith" (Tony Hendra) tries his best to set things up for their United States tour it soon becomes quite obvious that he is totally incompetent for the job at hand. Also quite evident is the fact that the band members are equally clueless about why their music doesn't attract large audiences. So they continue to produce one idiotic song after the other and devise all kinds of failed stage gimmicks in the mistaken belief that they are somehow on the verge of a major breakthrough. When these don't work the manager quits and is replaced by the lead singer's girlfriend "Jeanine Pettibone" (June Chadwick) who is even more incompetent than Ian ever was. Not surprisingly, things get even worse at that point. In any case, while this turned out to be a decent comedy for the most part, I should also mention that it probably takes some getting used to. Because of that, some viewers may not like it that much and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
Even though it's considered as the best movies out there, I just don't think it would fit into that category. I don't understand why IMDb have this movie a 8/11 rating. It's nowhere near that first of all and second, you hardly understand what the hell is going on. Yeah I know they are being interviewed by a Marty DiBergi dude who randomly interviews them. However when they start talking without the music, they really talk too quick, moan and complain a lot. That's the reason why I just don't understand what they are saying.I did try to like this movie but it just wasn't for me. The music is OK, I wouldn't get too over excited! It's disappointing that I didn't like it but I would suggest this to music fans!