The boys are back in town: more than 40 years later, the entire now-OAP crew that brought us the legendary mockumentary This is Spinal Tap (1984) have returned to our screens. The band that taught us how to turn it up to 11 – brash lead singer David St Hubbins (Michael McKean), Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) and guitarist Nigel Tufnell (Christopher Guest) – have returned as the faux heavy metal band, grey-haired and dumb as ever, for Rob Reiner’s Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.
The film is written by original comic mastermind Christopher Guest and directed by Reiner as his onscreen directorial alter-ego Marty DiBergi. The fact it retains so many of its original creative team and cast is perhaps why it works. Upon the death of their former manager, these grizzled old rock stars are contractually forced to reunite the band for one last show or else. But the intervening decades have not lessened the tension or ire between them.
While former frontman St Hubbins records music for a true crime podcast, his old frenemy Tufnell runs a business in rural England – a cheese and guitar shop, naturally – and plays (electric!) guitar in a folk band. Meanwhile, former bassist Derek is a curator for the New Museum of Glue in London, which he discusses with perfect dunderheaded sincerity. Meanwhile, DiBergi seems to have fallen off the filmmaking map too, seeing this one-last-show gambit as an opportunity to revisit his own dreams of stardom and success.
The film retains many of the original’s cast and crew (Photo: Kyle Kaplan/Bleecker Street via AP) square TV OPINION I love Downton Abbey - but it's time for it to end
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The group fumble, argue, and revisit their pasts as they catch the audience up with the years out of the spotlight – with characteristic embattled egos intact. Until they have an unexpected viral success on social media.
Reiner enlists Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood as megastars who casually record Spinal Tap’s song “Big Bottom” and unwittingly cause an online sensation (much like the popularity of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” on TikTok proved, this sort of thing can and does happen).
With a perfect mix of affectionate emotion and the satirical humour that made the original film such a joy to behold, these guys have the same comic timing and ponderous line delivery they had decades ago. They’re even joined by the likes of Paul McCartney and Elton John – a level of musical royalty that both buoys the so-called infamy of the band and underlines how adored the mockumentary was even by artists who might have been annoyed by it.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues may not have the brown M&M joke or cultish appeal of its original, but it gets great and lovable mileage out of just how good those first jokes were – mini-Stonehenge replica included. You’d have to be a curmudgeon not to think it was fantastic fun.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is in cinemas from 12 September
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