For those who follow this blog, you know there's one type of documentary I can't seem to get enough of - the MOCKumentary! There's something about an ornate display of fakeness masked to be real that makes me shake my head and laugh - no matter what the subject matter.
This movie/mockumentary/rockumentary involves a fictional heavy metal group called Spinal Tap. These guys know how to TURN IT UP TO 11. After watching it again for the first time in a number of year, I was surprised to recognize a lot more people. Billy Crystal, Fran Drescher...even Bruno Kirby graced this production.
The mockumentary follows the North American tour of this has-been-band trying to make one last try at stardom. They travel city to city and of course everyplace they go they're playing tiny arenas and have cancelled dates and the album cover being criticized and then changed into just an all-black cover. Hysterical nonsensical problems for the group mount until one of the key player's girlfriend comes to town and takes over...that becomes the beginning of the end...until, of course, their new song "Sex Farm" takes off in Japan - and the boys get a breath of life into their collapsing musical futures.
This one is rated PG-13 for language. There's really not a lot of sexual situations - if you take out the themes of the songs and the groupies who are just kind of laying around. No nudity - which surprised me. For some reason, I expected PG-13 to be worse.
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