Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

“What comes after 11? We're about to find out.”

6.3

2025

1h 23m

ComedyMusic

Director: Rob Reiner

Overview

The now estranged bandmates of Spinal Tap are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.

Trailer

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Cast

Nigel Tufnel

Christopher Guest

Nigel Tufnel

David St. Hubbins

Michael McKean

David St. Hubbins

Derek Smalls

Harry Shearer

Derek Smalls

Marty DiBergi

Rob Reiner

Marty DiBergi

Didi Crockett

Valerie Franco

Didi Crockett

Caucasian Jeff

CJ Vanston

Caucasian Jeff

Oxygen

Jean Cromie

Oxygen

Hope Faith

Kerry Godliman

Hope Faith

Garth Brooks

Trisha Yearwood

Jeanine Pettibone

June Chadwick

Jeanine Pettibone

Bobbi Flekman

Fran Drescher

Bobbi Flekman

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I don’t know about the spirit of “Spinal Tap”, but the spirit of the much-loved “Victor Meldrew” - in the guise of “David St. Hubbins” (Michael McKean) is alive and well here! A better and more curmudgeonly companion for the newly married and cheese-shop owning “Nigel” (Christopher Guest) and glue-museum curator “Derek” (Harry Shearer) you couldn’t ask for as they reunite at the behest of the producer “Martin DeBergi” (Rob Reiner) for a last fly-on-the-wall to accompany their forthcoming one-night-only gig in New Orleans. If you thought the “Bros” movie (2018) showcased what happens when things don’t go well in a band, well you’re in for something altogether more acerbic as poor old “Derek” tries his best to mediate between his two sparring partner colleagues, whilst all three have to put up with the moronic interventions of their aptly named record company man “Howler” (Chris Addison) who wouldn’t know a drum kit from a Kit Kat. With tensions mounting and reminiscences differing, their recording sessions get underway in earnest and thanks to a few contributions from musical knights Paul McCartney and Elton John as well as Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks, who knows but “Stonehenge” could be played to the baying fans just once more? It’s a bit of a slow starter, this film, but once they’ve got themselves into gear and we start to hear their music as well as their bickering, the film starts to shine a little like the first outing from forty-odd years ago. The dialogue is pithy and funny, the lyrics to the songs would never have passed the code censors as euphemisms galore appear verbally and visually to cement the original creative tackiness of the concept. There’s an entertaining chemistry between McKean and Guest, Sir Elton joins in with some gusto (if perhaps not with the most convincing acting you’ll ever have seen) and it just goes to show that these ageing rockers still have what it takes to send up an industry that is riddled with parasitic hangers-on, old grudges and died-in-the-wool fans who’d turn up to the opening of an envelope. It hasn’t quite the sharpness of the original 1984 outing, but you still have to ask what chance their eleventh (or is it twelfth) drummer “Didi” (Valerie Franco) will make it through to the credits? Good fun!

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Chandler Danier

Spinal Tap was always funnier in theory. This has many theoretically funny aspects. Theories are not funny. The greatest joke in the orignial is when bass dude has a cucumber wrapped in tinfoil confiscated. The greatest joke in this one is they call the only black guy in the film. Do you think women taking on non-traditional gender roles is funny? Get this...lady drummer! Wait. LESBIAN! They must have hired the writer from that Aubrey Plaza joint.

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