This is Spinal Tap was a hilarious film. For a long period after beginning the film I firmly believed that this was a real band and a real documentary! To my surprise, this band does not exist and was actually made up for the movie that was mocking rock bands. After coming to the realization that this band had way to many hilarious mishaps to be real, the "documentary" became even more hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this film and I would without a doubt watch it again and again.
I was intrigued to find out the history behind the filming of this movie and I came upon this fabulous and oh so humorous youtube video where the director and also character in the film, Rob Reiner comments on the inspiration of the film and other funny tidbits:
I loved hearing Reiner's perspective on the film, it makes it just that much better!
I also researched people's reviews of the film because I was interested if anyone was opposed to the mocking. I literally could not find a bad review of the film. Some of the best reviews that I came across if you are fascinated for your own personal research are: Roger Ebert's review and IMBd's collection of viewer's reviews.
All of these reviews offer much applause to the outrageously comical film. It was a very successful "documentary" and one that I will personally enjoy watching years from now!
I posted just a couple pictures of the band from the film for further enjoyment! How can you not laugh at these crazy characters?! :)
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