The original movie 'This is Spinal Tap', filmed by amateur movie maker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), is a very funny spoof of a heavy metal band. The actors playing 'Spinal Tap' made up songs for use in the documentary -er 'Rockumentary' -er mockumentary. We see the band at the coliseum - unable to find their way to the stage, or saying, "hello Detroit" when they're in Cleveland, or on stage in the midst of various technical or prop-difficulties. It's very funny. Listed as one of the top cult films of all time I think. I give the original 9 stars.
In the original movie, at times the jokes go too far. When the guitarist repeatedly insists his amp is goes louder, because, "it goes to 11", it's obvious the guitarist couldn't really be that dumb and so it's obvious the he's just an actor repeating a line. When a joke becomes too mean, perhaps, it's not funny anymore, except for nervous/fear laughter. Still, today, radio stations across the dial advertise, "crank it up to 11. . ."
To a certain extent, in hind-site, I think the joke is on the fearful who do laugh 'at' Spinal Tap rather than laughing with them. Their big song in the original mockumentary is 'Big Bottoms' - "Big Bottoms, big bottoms, talk about bum-cakes my girls got'em". And there's the scene where their record label won't print the cover photo for their album 'Smell the Glove' because it's too 'sexist'. I know, to this day, if someone says something to me, like, "Talk to the hand", I'm liable to respond with, "Smell the Glove".
Spinal Tap's actually helped me appreciate metal bands. For example, I'm not a fan of hard or punk rock, or metal bands that mostly have a hard rock sound, tho I am a big metal fan - each song in these mockumentaries seems to spoof a different band/style of metal music, and Spinal Tap are just so harmless and amusing they've helped me appreciate some of these other styles more.
In '25th Anniversary Sell-Out' they continue the joke from the previous movie, pretending to be a real band. Of course, they now know Marty DiBergi, who filmed 'This is Spinal Tap', made fools out of them in the first movie! as witnessed by this extra footage added on after the end of the first movie,
Nigel Tufnel: I think his real last name is DiBergarmo.
David St. Hubbins: No!
Derek Smalls: No, his real last name is DiBergowitz.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah! DiBergowitz.
David St. Hubbins: No! He's like one of those...
Derek Smalls: Yeah, he is one of those. Check it out: DiBergowitz!
It's pretty funny. For this movie, '25th anniversary sell-out', Spinal Tap operate the cameras themselves. They turn the tables on film maker Marty DiBergi, showing up at his 'office' and putting him on film. Marty's office seems to be a pay phone inside a pub (he's given the phone number of this public phone out as his office number) and he's waiting by the phone fruitlessly for other offers to come in after his movie 'This is Spinal Tap'.
They don't have 'Martyy DiBergi' for this film, so, of course, this film isn't that good! Duh. It's a bit funny but 'The 25th Anniversary Sell-Out' isn't as amusing, or a good as 'This is Spinal Tap'. I like the music tho, so I go ahead and give it an extra star or two.
In the original movie, at times the jokes go too far. When the guitarist repeatedly insists his amp is goes louder, because, "it goes to 11", it's obvious the guitarist couldn't really be that dumb and so it's obvious the he's just an actor repeating a line. When a joke becomes too mean, perhaps, it's not funny anymore, except for nervous/fear laughter. Still, today, radio stations across the dial advertise, "crank it up to 11. . ."
To a certain extent, in hind-site, I think the joke is on the fearful who do laugh 'at' Spinal Tap rather than laughing with them. Their big song in the original mockumentary is 'Big Bottoms' - "Big Bottoms, big bottoms, talk about bum-cakes my girls got'em". And there's the scene where their record label won't print the cover photo for their album 'Smell the Glove' because it's too 'sexist'. I know, to this day, if someone says something to me, like, "Talk to the hand", I'm liable to respond with, "Smell the Glove".
Spinal Tap's actually helped me appreciate metal bands. For example, I'm not a fan of hard or punk rock, or metal bands that mostly have a hard rock sound, tho I am a big metal fan - each song in these mockumentaries seems to spoof a different band/style of metal music, and Spinal Tap are just so harmless and amusing they've helped me appreciate some of these other styles more.
In '25th Anniversary Sell-Out' they continue the joke from the previous movie, pretending to be a real band. Of course, they now know Marty DiBergi, who filmed 'This is Spinal Tap', made fools out of them in the first movie! as witnessed by this extra footage added on after the end of the first movie,
Nigel Tufnel: I think his real last name is DiBergarmo.
David St. Hubbins: No!
Derek Smalls: No, his real last name is DiBergowitz.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah! DiBergowitz.
David St. Hubbins: No! He's like one of those...
Derek Smalls: Yeah, he is one of those. Check it out: DiBergowitz!
It's pretty funny. For this movie, '25th anniversary sell-out', Spinal Tap operate the cameras themselves. They turn the tables on film maker Marty DiBergi, showing up at his 'office' and putting him on film. Marty's office seems to be a pay phone inside a pub (he's given the phone number of this public phone out as his office number) and he's waiting by the phone fruitlessly for other offers to come in after his movie 'This is Spinal Tap'.
They don't have 'Martyy DiBergi' for this film, so, of course, this film isn't that good! Duh. It's a bit funny but 'The 25th Anniversary Sell-Out' isn't as amusing, or a good as 'This is Spinal Tap'. I like the music tho, so I go ahead and give it an extra star or two.