A brilliant rockumentary masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2005)

THIS IS SPINAL TAP is simply one of the funniest and most original movies ever made. It's so deep in it's hilarious messages that you really have to see it three or four times to catch all of the jokes being hidden between characters, happenings and cultural satire. The movie featuring three totally talented musicians and comedians introduces you to a docu-comedy that simply can't make you laugh at rock & roll for some minutes.
As the movie starts off we're at a airport and everything seems so freaking big with this band, like in big business. But Spinal Tap is truly a band in a downhill down to the rest of the loser bands playing glossy heavy metal in the 80ties. Guitarists and best friends David and Nigel seem so for-filling with metal riffs and solos that keeps pushing this ridiculous gem to the extreme, and off course lame costumes and a bassist uglier than anything else on stage.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP is also one of the most influential comedies because of it's truly genius originality and off course serious joking around-as the group members so perfectly puts it themselves; such a good thing between stupid and clever. Because this isn't just a very funny movie, it's also extremely clever to put it that way - the jokes are so layered and the whole basic laughs are so well made that this movie stands as a huge rock with the rest of the top-notch comedies of all time, as Monty Python, TV-series Office, brilliant satire-zombie Shaun Of The Dead, Mr. Bean himself and Jim Carrey's pet detective to mention a few.
Switching from close to dead-serious rock & roll business to pure stupidity this movie is also such a killer on entertainment. Featuring dozens of scenes that made me crack over and over; such in as Nigel wants to do a spin on the floor while doing his guitar solo, he needs help from a crew member - so funny! Or when the bassist is stuck in one of those ridiculous stage effects, or when Nigel starts complaining about the backstage food - or when they tell the mysterious stories of their dying drummers, or at the movie end when the group members tells sort of inside stories of their own view. St. David, or Nigel working as a salesman or the bassist finding himself very alike a moose. THIS IS SPINAL TAP is so freaking good that it deserves all the cult classicism and well reviews.