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Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a real documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The group started as an informal skiffle band, eventually maturing into an R&B act called the Thamesmen (their hit was Gimme Some Money). After going through a psychedelic period with Listen to the Flower People, the band mutated into Spinal Tap, a hard rock outfit responsible for such albums as Intravenous DeMilo, The Sun Never Sweats, and Bent for the Rent. This Is Spinal Tap finds them in the midst of their first American tour in years as they support their new LP Smell the Glove, with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), who specializes in TV commercials, on hand to document the occasion. Just about anything that can go wrong does: shows get canceled, stage props go wrong, wireless guitar pickups start

Posted: 4/6/2008 Price: Free Video Type: Clip