This is Spinal Tap

“"They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry," says one fictitious rock critic...Spinal Tap does embody rock- and-roll at its most horrible, and yet ''This Is Spinal Tap,'' a mock-documentary following the band's American tour, isn't mean-spirited at all. It's much too affectionate for that. And it stays so wickedly close to the subject that it is very nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.”