Spinal Tap II: The End Continues opens in theaters September 12, 2025
Please don’t suck.
The original film was about a band overstaying their welcome, and I’m afraid this thing will be tragically meta. The casting of A Mighty Wind was a sweet send off, but this reeks of a cash-grab.
This.
But it probably will.
If this DOA trailer is any indication, it definitely will.
To be fair, gardening accidents, no matter how bizarre, do not make compelling footage.
I don’t have particularly high expectations, but in my experience funny things happen when Harry, Christopher and Michael share the stage. Fingers crossed!
It actually doesn’t look that bad.
IMHO, it also doesn’t look that good 
There is no way I will not see this movie
Too many comedy trailers steal all the good lines from the movie. This had the bare minimum. So either a clever trailer or no good lines in the movie.
For me the problem is Rob Reiner. From 1984 to 1992 he directed This Is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men. How many of his movies since could anyone name?
I suspect that this film has four de facto directors.
Christopher Guest directed their next several improv movies, so they surely know how and when to defer to a director.
Even Monty Python - a group of narcissistic equals - recognized that only one guy can be the director at any one time.
If the trio can’t handle this, the result truly will be awful.
This Is Spinal Tap is a stand alone classic.
Spinal Tap 2 is not required.
I forget who described Reiner as “acclaimed director of A Few Good Films.”
A couple of thoughts:
First, I’m a huge Tap fan, but I don’t think we need this film – we already had the 25th anniversary reunion (hosted by Martha Quinn, with a lot of cameos, along with a concert), so really, what will this give us?
Second, I’ve been a fan of Rob Reiner’s since All in the Family, but he really lost points with me with his conspiracy-laden JFK assassination podcast (spoiler: rogue factions in the CIA, along with others, killed JFK according to Reiner).
Third, I see this like Guest’s movies: the first 3 (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, were great, but by the time he got to Mascots it was a decreasing return.
Maybe Tap, like the drummer’s death, is a band best left to past memories.
I’m going into this as a stand alone experience.
It’s highly unlikely to meet or exceed the original, so I won’t even try to compare. I consider this a continuation, icing on the cake, and will try to enjoy it on its own merits.
I’m not sure why we need this*.
I mean, the point of the original was making fun of these 40 year old clueless idiots who can’t even find the door to the stage, get mad when the meat is bigger than the bread but still think they are a relevant band. The fact that they go through life in a shelterd haze was the point!
Now 40 more years later we’re supposed to go see a movie to find that they re STILL clueless idiots? Forever trapped in arrested adolescence in their 70s? Nope. I’ll enjoy the original. And the Rutles.
*“we’re only in it for the money”
The jokes in the original were timeless (unless one day we will be able to dust for vomit.) I don’t know how many people in 40 years will get jokes about Stormy Daniels or cryptocurrency.
They didn’t even call it This is Spinal Tap II.
Or “This is Still Spinal Tap”
Just Spinal Tap 2.
OK, we’ll see.