Stars: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner

Summary: An intimate portrait of a band that has single-handedly dominated a musical genre known as Heavy Metal. The band-members are joined both on-stage and behind-the-scenes by a gaggle of friends and celebrities, including Paul Anka, Jeff Beck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kenny Rogers, Mel Torme, and many more. The sequel to 1983's farce, This Is Spinal Tap.

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The Return of Spinal Tap is based around Tap's performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992. In between the footage of Messrs St Hubbins, Tufnell and Smalls performing in front of a huge crowd enthusiastically determined to go along with the joke, there are clips purporting to investigate the band's humble origins in the East London suburb of Squatney, and updates from "rockumentary" director Marty Di Bergi and hapless record plugger Artie Fufkin (from the original film). It is the latter component which is the real strength of Return. Though the concert footage faithfully rehashes many of the film's most treasured jokes (the malfunctioning props, the dancing midgets), the real satirical strength of This is Spinal Tap was never its treatment of heavy metal music (which, after all, is hardly a difficult target). What the first movie did best was illuminate the egomania, paranoia, delusion and stupidity that are the cornerstones of rock 'n' roll as it is lived. The Return of Spinal Tap is a worthy companion piece. --Andrew Mueller

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Year:	1992
Release Date:	May 21, 2001
Runtime:	110 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	2 N D V D 3019
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Return, Spinal, Tap
Genre:	Comedy