The movie rocks AND rolls.

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2003)

I saw This is Spinal Tap some time after it was made - I was only a twinkle in my mother's eye in 1984, but when I saw it, i laughed a lot. A lot of people say that movie has "subtle" humour, it's not laugh out loud and I think that's true because it hits terribly close to home - same with Best In Show and A Mighty Wind, the characters are weird and wacky but just normal enough that you can think of someone you know who is eerily like those idiots, and you hold back your laughs. What really made the movie great, i think was of course there are these stupid idiot caricatures of rock stars, but at the end you secretly hope the band doesnt split up or anything.