This Is Spinal Tap

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Mason M As both an avid film lover and a rock and roll lover, This is Spinal Tap was a cheap satire and a badly made film. Though I like him as an actor, I don't like Rob Reiner as a director. He often works with good scripts, but his direction always feels dry and lifeless. This showed Rob Reiner's direction, this time with a bad script. Spinal Tap does have its fair share of strengths, the concert scenes were well done and it was pretty funny. It was funny in a technical sense, the jokes were good. But I didn't find myself laughing a single time in this film because the characters are so poorly written, they don't have a lick of personality written in that distinguishes one character from another. And for me at least, for humor to work, I need to be able to know the characters and what they would do in a situation. But this film gave me absolutely no character development or personality to latch onto. And the film's satire of rock and roll never went anywhere under the surface and just relied on tired cliches and stereotypes about rockers. Good satire makes interesting points about what it's talking about and gets one to think, but this has absolutely nothing interesting or new to say about rock and roll and just felt like a cheap mockery of a beloved genre. And Spinal Tap ultimately feels like a good film where they edited out the scenes with character development and intellectual satire until it just became a half baked series of jokes. This is Spinal Tap is just a series of gags that doesn't put the work into the characters or plot to make those jokes work. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/09/25 Full Review Alpha B Hadn't seen it in years so I went to see it at the theatre. Funniest movie I've seen all year. Hollywood just doesn't make good comedies anymore. Timeless classic Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/07/25 Full Review M B Original, beyond hilarious fake rock documentary. Writing, casting and execution are flawless, it's totally believable. So true it's funny. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/25 Full Review Nick M C'mon .... everyone needs to see this at least once. I'd give it an 11. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/25 Full Review alan g It wasn't good the first time. Why do it again? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/02/25 Full Review Sam R Great humour, such a classic! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/02/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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