DVD
Upcoming Release Calendar
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
Recent DVD/Video Releases
65
Adoration
42
Aliens in the Attic
56
American Violet
48
Angels & Demons
44
Answer Man, The
54
Bruno
55
Casi Divas
63
Cheri
83
Drag Me to Hell
24
Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat
76
Every Little Step
70
Fados
49
Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
80
Food, Inc.
41
Four Christmases
60
Funny People
87
Gomorrah
74
Humpday
32
I Love You, Beth Cooper
50
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
81
Il Divo
54
Imagine That
54
Is Anybody There?
32
Land of the Lost
74
Lemon Tree
40
Limits of Control, The
43
Love 'N Dancing
63
Medicine for Melancholy
51
My Sister's Keeper
48
Not Forgotten
50
Nothing Like the Holidays
26
Objective, The
42
Orphan
78
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
48
Proposal, The
53
Shorts
39
Spread
83
Star Trek
55
Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The
72
Thirst
35
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
28
Ugly Truth, The
66
Unmistaken Child
88
Up
45
Whatever Works
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
This Is Spinal Tap (re-release)
Universal acclaim
Based on 13 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 28 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie >
Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Christopher Guest
Michael McKean
Rob Reiner
Harry Shearer
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 8, 2000
DVD: September 12, 2000
Running Time: 82 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer
This classic mockumentary chronicles the final tour of the fictitious arena rock group Spinal Tap.
Also On Metacritic
FILM: A Few Good Men Alex and Emma Rumor Has It... The American President The Bucket List The Princess Bride The Story of Us When Harry Met Sally...
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The rock scene hasn't been the same since this hilarious 1984 comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
One of the funniest, most intelligent, most original films.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Marc Caro
Deserves an encore anyway for its invaluable contributions to the vocabulary of rock'n' roll and pop culture.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Carmel Dagan
So intensely funny that the viewer must hang on every word: comic gems spill forth almost continuously.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Andy Klein
Spinal Tap is still on the right side of the fine line between stupid and clever.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
That rare comedy that is as completely entertaining now in its re-release...as it was back then.
Washington Post Desson Thomson
One of the great movie satires. And if it isn't the funniest rock spoof ever made, it certainly shares the title with "The Rutles."
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
It's no wonder young musicians say they learned to be rock stars from This Is Spinal Tap. It came to satirize and stayed -- and stays on -- to celebrate.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The group's members come off more like real musicians than parodists.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
Begs the question: Did the lads from Squatney trail the zeitgeist at every turn, or were cobandleaders David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel simply in touch with their past and ahead of their time?
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 28 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dan S. gave it a10:
Perhaps my favorite movie of all time. As Nigel noted (if I remember it correctly), "there's a fine line between clever and stupid" and this movie is never stuipid. It's hilarious.
Colm M. gave it a10:
A classic in every sense.
Dave K. gave it a10:
Great movie! The satirical content in this is great, any big band would think this is hilarious.
William W. gave it a9:
I just picked this up on DVD. Of course, it's a great movie. But I had to wonder whether the Metacritic people realized that the Village Voice review by Jessica Winter to which they assigned a "50" is actually a joke, written as if it were a perfectly serious attempt to use the release of the DVD as the occasion to consider the band's legacy. Or are the Metacritic people just going along with the joke? With deadpan upon deadpan upon deadpan, it gets hard to tell.
Kyle M. gave it a10:
The tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of cinematic invention within. The musical growth of this cast cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. Great movie.
Jeff F. gave it a9:
Very funny. One drummer choked on someone elses vomit. I wish Metalica some kind of monster would have been this good.
tru g. gave it a10:
Very good. And funny.
