With Spinal Tap, the joke never gets old, even if the hilarious-as-ever heavy metal trio is now bordering on geriatric. Well into their 70s, hall-of-fame improv talents Michael McKean and Christopher Guest are the same age as real-life rockers Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler, while slightly older Harry Shearer has made it up to 70-11. It’s to the point that “the candles are starting to cost more than the cake,” as fitness guru Bob Kitness (John Michael Higgins) tells the boys, but that’s all to the benefit of a sequel that draws added relevance from post-stardom reality shows like “The Osbournes” and “Bands Reunited.”
If director Rob Reiner’s solid-gold 1984 mock doc “This Is Spinal Tap” modeled itself after Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz,” then what should we consider its decades-later follow-up, “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” about the disbanded heavy metal group’s (contractually obliged) farewell concert?…
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