Sequels to much-loved and oft-quoted movies are never a sure thing, especially when they arrive more than 40 years after the fact. Enter Spinal Tap II: The End Continues . The problem isn’t that people have forgotten about Rob Reiner ’s glorious 1984 fake rock documentary This Is Spinal Tap ; it’s that they remember it all too well. No movie poked holes in the stereotypical puffy rock-star ego more effectively than Spinal Tap did, and there are legions of fans who have the film almost completely memorized. If you make a joke about a spontaneously combusting drummer or “turning it up to 11,” there’s barely a person on the planet who won’t know what you’re talking about. A sequel to This Is Spinal Tap seems nearly unfathomable, which might be why it’s taken 41 years to get one.

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