Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

2025 1h 23m EN

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Synopsis

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The now estranged bandmates of Spinal Tap are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Christopher Guest
Nigel Tufnel
Michael McKean
David St. Hubbins
Harry Shearer
Derek Smalls
Rob Reiner
Marty DiBergi
Valerie Franco
Didi Crockett
CJ Vanston
Caucasian Jeff
Jean Cromie
Oxygen
Kerry Godliman
Hope Faith

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Rob Reiner
Writers: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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83 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 15% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released last year.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "This Is Spinal Tap Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Rob Reiner, shot by Lincoln Else. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Bob Joyce shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Christopher Guest and Michael McKean and Harry Shearer carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt20222166 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Rob Reiner directs. Lincoln Else behind the camera. Bob Joyce cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

183 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Earned back only 15% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released last year.
4Part of the "This Is Spinal Tap Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Rob Reiner, shot by Lincoln Else. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Bob Joyce shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Christopher Guest and Michael McKean and Harry Shearer carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt20222166 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 13 themes, including "rock 'n' roll", "satire", "sequel", "mockumentary".

The technical file

Cinematography: Lincoln Else
Editing: Bob Joyce
Production design: Michelle C. Harmon
Makeup / hair: Ashley Levy
VFX supervisor: Kolby Kember
Sound: Larry Blake
Stunt coordinator: Mark Riccardi
Runtime: 83 min · 1h 23m
Status: Released
Budget: $22,600,000
Box office: $3,344,424
Return: 15% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)

Part of

This Is Spinal Tap Collection

This Is Spinal Tap shines a light on the self-contained universe of the titular metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.

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CinemaSerf2025-09-14
★ 7/10
I don’t know about the spirit of “Spinal Tap”, but the spirit of the much-loved “Victor Meldrew” - in the guise of “David St. Hubbins” (Michael McKean) is alive and well here! A better and more curmudgeonly companion for the newly married and cheese-shop owning “Nigel” (Christopher Guest) and glue-museum curator “Derek” (Harry Shearer) you couldn’t ask for as they reunite at the behest of the producer “Martin DeBergi” (Rob Reiner) for a last fly-on-the-wall to accompany their forthcoming one-night-only gig in New Orleans. If you thought the “Bros” movie (2018) showcased what happens when things don’t go well in a band, well you’re in for something altogether more acerbic as poor old “Derek” tries his best to mediate between his two sparring partner colleagues, whilst all three have to put up with the moronic interventions of their aptly named record company man “Howler” (Chris Addison) who wouldn’t know a drum kit from a Kit Kat. With tensions mounting and reminiscences differing, their recording sessions get underway in earnest and thanks to a few contributions from musical knights Paul McCartney and Elton John as well as Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks, who knows but “Stonehenge” could be played to the baying fans just once more? It’s a bit of a slow starter, this film, but once they’ve got themselves into gear and we start to hear their music as well as their bickering, the film starts to shine a little like the first outing from forty-odd years ago. The dialogue is pithy and funny, the lyrics to the songs would never have passed the code censors as euphemisms galore appear verbally and visually to cement the original creative tackiness of the concept. There’s an entertaining chemistry between McKean and Guest, Sir Elton joins in with some gusto (if perhaps not with the most convincing acting you’ll ever have seen) and it just goes to show that these ageing rockers still have what it takes to send up an industry that is riddled with parasitic hangers-on, old grudges and died-in-the-wool fans who’d turn up to the opening of an envelope. It hasn’t quite the sharpness of the original 1984 outing, but you still have to ask what chance their eleventh (or is it twelfth) drummer “Didi” (Valerie Franco) will make it through to the credits? Good fun!
Chandler Danier2025-12-28
★ 2/10
Spinal Tap was always funnier in theory. This has many theoretically funny aspects. Theories are not funny. The greatest joke in the orignial is when bass dude has a cucumber wrapped in tinfoil confiscated. The greatest joke in this one is they call the only black guy in the film. Do you think women taking on non-traditional gender roles is funny? Get this...lady drummer! Wait. LESBIAN! They must have hired the writer from that Aubrey Plaza joint.