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mvie mu-1021274: This is SPINAL TAP! (with two dots over the N)

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:03:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author updateghost - One of mockumentary This is Spinal Tap's finer aspects is its verisimilitude. On more than one occasion, someone has remarked to me, "Well, the movie's about Spinal Tap, the band, right? They are a real band." Clearly that person is wrong, but the...

mvie mu-1021274: Tap Into Your Stupid Sense of Humor

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:37:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shaky_jake - Big Bottom. Sex Farm. Hell Hole. Are these appalling couplets of words descriptions of some seedy, underground nightclubs that house the sleaziest of the sleazy? Or perhaps the working titles of the latest pornographic films to hit...

mvie mu-1021274: Warning: This review goes up to eleven

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:06:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - One of the problems with films that are parodies of a subject is that it requires a certain amount of knowledge of that subject by the viewer. To a large degree this is true of “This Is Spinal Tap”. Whilst some of the humour is based on the sheer...

mvie mu-1021274: If There's a Rock n Roll Bible, this is it!

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:25:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hickry-hawkins - I first saw this film when I was in the Navy back in 86. Like many other viewers, I thought this was an actual documentary of a real life band! I'd grown up a heavy metal fan so everything seemed exactly like what a metal band would go through. A few...

mvie mu-1021274: Rob Reiner At His Weirdest; Chris Guest At His Best

Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:23:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sarahvma - I spotted this DVD for sale at my local market for 10 bucks, and being a fan of Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, and having got some very good recommendations, I put down the bucks and got it. I honestly haven't looked at the extra features yet, since...

mvie mu-1021274: Listen to what the flower people sing

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:53:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - In my humble opinion, This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is one of the funniest movies ever made, all the more so because of the deadpan seriousness with which its minimally talented leads take themselves. The movie is a send-up of rock-music...

mvie mu-1021274: 20 Years On: "Spinal Tap" DVD Enhances the Mother of Mockumentaries

Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:34:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF FLASHBACKS GO US ALL: In one dead-pan featurette on the MGM "Special Edition" DVD of 1984's ground-breaking documentary parody of the fall of an over-the-hill rock band, This is Spinal Tap, there's an "interview"...

mvie mu-1021274: Decidedly On The Clever Side Of The Line: This is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD

Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:39:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfunk75 - MY REVIEW OF THE MOVIE PROPER

Director Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary', "This is Spinal Tap", might just be the funniest movie I know. Mostly improvised, it follows what should be the last concert tour of a 20-years past its best-buy date...

mvie mu-1021274: Spinal Tap...Before The Simpsons Years

Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:39:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rjc - Every once in a while, my family will find a movie that absolutely everyone thoroughly enjoys. Since we are avid movie watchers, this has happened occasionally over the years, and this movie has become the latest 'hit' in our home.

My family...

mvie mu-1021274: It goes to eleven!

Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:09:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebe101 - Hilarious! This mockumentary of a rockumentary was so real when it first came into theatres many people assumed it was real!

The plot focuses on Marti DiBergi (All in the Family's Rob Reiner,) a hack filmmaker who is sick of doing...

mvie mu-1021274: THIS IS SPINAL TAP – A Blissfully Engrossing Ascension to the Pinnacle of Documentary Filmmaking

Sun, 26 May 2002 06:04:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Sordid-1 - The documentary as an art form is an oft-overlooked and seldom commercially viable medium. This is rather surprising, actually, with the viewing public’s newfound fascination with “reality TV” and the constant blurring of the lines between...

mvie mu-1021274: BUY THE DVD NOW!!!!!!

Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:56:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cdrinkwine - The DVD of the 1984 classic mockumentary This is Spinal Tap belongs in any respectable videophile's collection.

I loved the original, and never thought that they could improve on perfection. Boy was I wrong.

Of course like...

mvie mu-1021274: Treading Water in a Sea of Retarded Sexuality and Bad Poetry

Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:36:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FlyBear - It takes people with special talent to create something so witty, so dead-on as "This Is Spinal Tap." A largely-improvised "mockumentary" created by director Rob Reiner and stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, with able helping...

mvie mu-1021274: A Very Funny Mocumentary!

Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:16:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author neeterskeeter - If you like mocumentaries, you will love this movie! It will keep you laughing all the way through. This movie takes a made-up band, Spinal Tap, and follows them on their tour and their new album release. By doing so, it makes fun of typical...

mvie mu-1021274: This review is coming to you in Doubley

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:07:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author crozzovers - This is Spinal Tap is a well executed farce on the Rock and Roll industry. In a time when the longer the hair the lower the IQ reigned supreme Spinal Tap made a witty commentary on the lifestyle, fans, groupies and egos of a typical Rock and Roll band...

mvie mu-1021274: Funny as Ever....

Thu, 24 May 2001 21:16:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jdarty6173 - Fifteen years after the release of This is Spinal Tap, declaring it a funny movie doesn't amount to much of a news flash. The mock documentary about a fictitious heavy-metal band is famously funny, inspiring legions of devoted fans ? just do a Web search...

mvie mu-1021274: The Perfect Comedy

Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:43:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bababrian - Spinal Tap: the Movie

Spinal Tap, simply put, is a treasure. It is a comedic pillar on which many of the comedies of today are built. The impressive directing of Rob Reiner coupled with the genius of Christopher Guest, Michael McKean,...

mvie mu-1021274: 'Tap' Your Troubles Away

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:40:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MrsNormanMaine - I had my first debate with my worthy opponent regarding the position of County Animal Control Officer for which I am standing as the Democratic candidate. Bob Mackie put together a brilliant red, white and blue outfit for me, sequins, bugle beads, lame...

mvie mu-1021274: Still laughing after all these years

Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:14:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author andi72 - I first saw "This Is Spinal Tap" years ago, so when I found the new video releases lacking intrigue, I decided to revisit this film. A lot of times we find that our tastes change over the years, and I was curious to see if this film would...

mvie mu-1021274: If you don't like this movie, you are an idiot

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:09:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hushkit - I got this movie for Christmas just 3 days ago. I had not seen it in probably 7 years, but I remember watching it at least 30 times in high school and in college. The first time I saw it was in the early 80s on HBO. I was in junior high and I thought it...

mvie mu-1021274: I Never Knew Spinal Taps Could Be So Fun!

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:00:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IIIITara - Spinal Tap is one of the all time greatest comedies ever made! I can guarantee you will laugh out loud through this entire movie. You'll go behind the scenes with Spinal Tap in this mock rockumentary.The songs they perform are absolutely hilarious,...

mvie mu-1021274: Turn Your Amps Up to 11!

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:00:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author evansec - In the midst of the loud rock era, somewhere caught in the spandex pants, flashy sets and really poor guitar solos, there was Spinal Tap, ready to rock with the best of 'em.

This is Spinal Tap, a Rob Reiner film, is a rock/mock-umentary...

mvie mu-1021274: Spinal Tap: Turn the Volume Up to 11

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:58:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Grouch - “The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.”

That’s what one poison-penned critic wrote about the long-haired hard rock group Spinal Tap.

I, on the...

mvie mu-1021274: Sex Farm Woman

Sat, 11 Nov 2000 04:02:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nathsmom - There was a time in my life when I had one hard and fast rule: If you don’t think Spinal Tap is funny, you cannot be my friend. At that time I believed that lack of appreciation for such a cinematic masterpiece showed a serious deficit of character, a...

mvie mu-1021274: Spinal Tap? More like SpinalCrap!........no, I'm kidding

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:01:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SlickShowman - I don't know why I said SpinalCrap in my title. Maybe because I'm in a rhyming mood.

Anyway.........

What a cool movie. This is a mock documentary (think Blair Witch, except that this is good), about a band that never existed. (Except for...