![]() Guest, McKean, Shearer and Reiner wrote the screenplay themselves, benefitting from improvisational rehearsals, and they also wrote all the songs, some of which, like "Sex Farm," became popular and were really not much worse than other heavy metal hits. concert, an officers' dance in the airplane hanger of a military base. Hookstratten, in charge of their last U.S. Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer is Artie Fufkin, the advance man who fails to provide a single fan for an autographing. Bobby Flekman ( Fran Drescher) is a record company publicist trying to explain without really explaining why the band's new album, "Smell the Glove," is not in stores. He carries a cricket bat and releases tension at crucial moments by such therapeutic activities as smashing TV sets. Their manager Ian Faith ( Tony Hendra) is like a weary scoutmaster promising a troop of mama's boys that the hike is about over. tour comes from a perfectly observed group of music industry functionaries. One spontaneously combusted, and another choked to death on vomit ("but not his own vomit"). Parnell) supplies percussion on borrowed time: Previous Spinal Tap drummers have had an alarming mortality rate. The two front men get most of the glory, while the drummer Mick Shrimpton (R.J. His crush on David is obvious to everyone except, of course, David. When Nigel learns that David's girlfriend Jeanine Pettibone (June Chadwick) is flying over from England to join the tour, his heart sinks. Hubbins (Michael McKean), the bass player Derek Smalls ( Harry Shearer) and Nigel Tufnel ( Christopher Guest), who longs for St. The band members are the blond rock god David St. He was first attracted to the band, he says, by its "unusual loudness," so perhaps he should be more grateful for Nigel's technical secrets. He plays Marty DiBergi, the dogged documentarian who follows along on Spinal Tap's first U.S. The fake documentary, released in 1984, was the directorial debut of Rob Reiner, then famous as Meathead from "All in the Family," soon to become one of the most successful of Hollywood directors (" The Sure Thing", " The Princess Bride", "When Harry Met Sally.", " Misery", " The American President"). Intoxicated by the sheer fun of being rock stars, they perform long after their sell-by date, to smaller and smaller audiences, for less and less money, still seeking the roar of the crowd. The reason we feel such affection for its members is because they are so touching in their innocence and optimism. There are two stories told in the film: the story of what the rock band Spinal Tap thinks, hopes, believes or fears is happening, and the story of what is actually happening. "This Is Spinal Tap," one of the funniest movies ever made, is about a lot of things, but one of them is the way the real story is not in the questions or in the answers, but at the edge of the frame. DiBergi, a rational filmmaker, is helpless in the face of Nigel's rapture. Nigel has few ideas, but they are clearly defined and defiantly defended. Marty DiBergi realizes he's dealing with a matter of guitar theology, not logic. His faith in that extra push over the cliff is unshakable. ![]() Nigel is so baffled by this notion that he almost stops chewing his gum. Why don't you just make 10 louder, and make 10 be the top number, and make that a little louder?
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