# Spinal Tap II: The End Continues **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, music\ **Created:** [July 25, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340 "2025-07-25T23:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/1 "2025-07-25T23:28:36Z")
[Spinal Tap II: The End Continues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DDf9OXsFA&ab_channel=IGN) opens in theaters September 12, 2025 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/2 "2025-07-25T23:49:11Z")
Please don’t suck. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/3 "2025-07-25T23:55:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/4 "2025-07-26T00:05:35Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Please don’t suck. This. But it probably will. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/5 "2025-07-26T00:42:22Z")
If this DOA trailer is any indication, it _definitely_ will. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/6 "2025-07-26T00:44:21Z")
To be fair, gardening accidents, no matter how bizarre, do not make compelling footage. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/7 "2025-07-26T00:45:41Z")
I don’t have particularly high expectations, but in my experience funny things happen when Harry, Christopher and Michael share the stage. Fingers crossed! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/8 "2025-07-26T00:49:29Z")
It actually doesn’t look that bad. ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/9 "2025-07-26T02:00:33Z")
IMHO, it also doesn’t look that good 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/10 "2025-07-26T11:09:04Z")
There is no way I will _not_ see this movie ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/11 "2025-07-26T18:37:24Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/12 "2025-07-26T18:46:59Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > For me the problem is Rob Reiner. I suspect that this film has four _de facto_ directors. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/13 "2025-07-26T19:02:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/14 "2025-07-27T13:00:37Z")
This Is Spinal Tap is a stand alone classic. Spinal Tap 2 is not required. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/15 "2025-07-27T13:18:36Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > How many of his movies since could anyone name? I forget who described Reiner as “acclaimed director of A Few Good Films.” ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/16 "2025-07-28T15:04:31Z")
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](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123278/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1) (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](https://www.iheartmedia.com/press/iheartpodcasts-partners-legendary-filmmaker-rob-reiner-and-award-winning-journalist-soledad) (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](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4936176/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1) it was a decreasing return. Maybe Tap, like the drummer’s death, is a band best left to past memories. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/17 "2025-07-28T15:28:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/18 "2025-07-28T16:21:53Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/19 "2025-07-28T16:31:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340/20 "2025-07-28T17:31:07Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/1021340.md?page=2)