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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.
1982 and the world's loudest rock band, Spinal Tap, are about to embark on their biggest world tour to date. Along for the ride is film-maker and fan Marti DiBergi (Rob Reiner), there to make a behind-the-scenes tribute to his favourite heavy metal band. However instead of a celebrating the genius of the musicians behind such classics as "Big Bottom" and "Hell Hole", the documentary captures the cracks as they begin to appear for this band whose time has come... and now appears to have gone again. Whilst the tour turns out to be not the sell-out they had hoped for, the band's hapless manager Ian Faith (Tony Hendra) unwittingly orchestrates a cacophony of errors: stage props malfunctions,… more » miniature sets and an all-black album cover to replace one that the record company deemed too offensive to women: "What's wrong with being sexy?" The final straw however might just prove to be the interference of guitarist David St. Hubbins's girlfriend Janine in the band's business affairs, shutting out childhood friend and co-lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel. With a camera recording all the chaos, the archetypal portrait of a band in crisis is born.
25 years later, with Spinal Tap on tour once more, it's time to celebrate once again the much-loved and oft-quoted greatest "rockumentary" ever made. Relive the band's triumphs and disasters, get your bass out for "Big Bottom" and prepare to smell the glove.
- Actors
Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Patrick MacNee, Ed Begley Jr., Paul Simon, Dana Carvey, Billy Crystal & Anjelica Huston
- Director
Rob Reiner
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The 'Stonehenge' scene alone makes it my favourite comedy EVER, but that is not all it has to offer. Who could forget the famous amp scene (these go to eleven) or the pod prop diaster!
And this DVD has so much to offer as well, the deleted scenes is basically another film as well (I think there is an extra hour and a bit!)It's hard to beleive they left so much out. The best 'outtakes' have got to be the album signing scene and the zoo scene! There is also trailers, music videos, promotional stuff and loads more.
So if you fancy a film that never gets boring, never loses its comedy then watch this.
So to finish this review on the greatest film EVER, on a scale of 1 to 10, I give it.... 11!!
Spinal Tap is a great comic movie - hilarious from start to finish. It takes the (much copied but never bettered) form of a mock documentary (or rockumentary, if you will) following the spoof band as they go on tour of the USA to promote their new album.
Heavy Metal may seem to be beyond parody but Spinal Tap manages. The band is a glorious, grotesque caricature of a heavy metal band: misogynist & sexist, vain, split by internal dissent and artistic differences and hopelessly lacking is self-awareness.
The boys in the band all excellent and totally convincing and there are a lots of great cameos. The songs are glorious parodies of heavy metal songs; listen to the lyrics, they are often hilarious (and of course deeply offensive). The film is full of laugh out loud moments and memorable lines that have entered the lexicon (the airport metal detector, turn it up to 11).
To cap it all off the extras (listed in the product description above) are fantastic and hilarious.
Buy it, watch it, enjoy it
Go straight to 11 - with the magic of DVD you can now go to your favourite Tap moments, whether it is the diminutive Stonehenge, the pod that won't... Read more
Of course, the film is fantastic - worth five of anybody's stars. Read more
Any film studio that still releases territory-limited discs like this is living in the... Read more
What I can't work out and I'll check on wikipedia is that:- Were Spinal Tap already a band when the movie was made, or were they ficticous to start... Read more
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