Spinal Tap, one of England’s loudest bands is the focus of a documentary and chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi during a tour that turns into a complete disaster.
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We get straight into it with Marty DiBergi and his inttoduction to the documentaty and how they are going to follow the band around on the latest US tour, we will quickly see that everything is going rather badly for the band and the fans they thought they had don’t seem to be that interested anymore.
We get to see David and Nigel who were lifelong friends attempt to keep the music alive, while having to try and battle with each other about the creative future of the band. This is not helped by David’s girlfriend and how involved she is trying to be. Nigel was totally my favourite character as he just felt so helpless and oblivious to quite frankly everything.
This has been one of those films that became a blindspot for me and I had always wanted to catch up with, and what better way to do that than at the cinema. Cineworld have a tribute to Rob Reiner on over April and May screening some of his films, one per week on a Wednesday.
I can now therefore fully understand why this has a cult following because let’s face it everything about it is so ridiculous and hilarious. One of my favourite things about it has to be that actual rock band members thought it was actually a real documentary just showing how close to the truth some of it must have been. Which I think watching it for the first time now made it even funnier really.
This was the first film that Rob Reiner directed and it was certainly a statement of intent on his career behind the camera, although with this he still had the part on camera as well. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer all work so well together which I guess would be expected as they co-wrote the script for the film, so it seems we got a passion project all round!
I also loved the small cameos from Billy Crystal and Bruno Kirby!
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