'Spinal Tap II' has cameos from McCartney and Elton John. And the New Orleans setting rocks.

Let’s be unflinchingly honest: The track record for comedy sequels shot in New Orleans is, frankly, less than impressive.

There was 2020’s “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” which was anything but an excellent adventure. There was 2015’s “Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” which was all wet. And as for 2019’s “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” — well, some things are best left unsaid.

Consequently, the bar is lower than an 18-inch model of Stonehenge for writer-director Rob Reiner’s 41-years-later, New Orleans-shot mockumentary encore “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.”

The question, then, isn’t whether Reiner and company can clear said bar. Of course they can — and of course they do.

It’s whether a sequel to one of the most revered comedies of a generation — and one that reunites the key players from 1984’s