{"id":2013058,"date":"2025-09-11T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2013058"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:48:16","slug":"spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-review-the-ultimate-spoof-band-gets-a-cheeky-send-off-with-a-little-help-from-their-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-review-the-ultimate-spoof-band-gets-a-cheeky-send-off-with-a-little-help-from-their-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spinal Tap II: The End Continues\u2019 Review: The Ultimate Spoof Band Gets a Cheeky Send-Off, With a Little Help From Their Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Spinal Tap<\/a>, 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<\/a> and Christopher Guest<\/a> are the same age as real-life rockers Alice Cooper<\/a> and Steven Tyler<\/a>, while slightly older Harry Shearer<\/a> has made it up to 70-11. It\u2019s to the point that \u201cthe candles are starting to cost more than the cake,\u201d as fitness guru Bob Kitness (John Michael Higgins<\/a>) tells the boys, but that\u2019s all to the benefit of a sequel that draws added relevance from post-stardom reality shows like \u201cThe Osbournes<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBands Reunited<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If director Rob Reiner<\/a>\u2019s solid-gold 1984 mock doc \u201cThis Is Spinal Tap<\/a>\u201d modeled itself after Martin Scorsese<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Last Waltz<\/a>,\u201d then what should we consider its decades-later follow-up, \u201cSpinal Tap II: The End Continues<\/a>,\u201d about the disbanded heavy metal group\u2019s (contractually obliged) farewell concert?…<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2013058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Spinal-Tap-II-The-End-Continues-Review-The-Ultimate-Spoof.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}