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				This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | 
			 
				
			
			
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				Film rated 4.6 / 5 
				(Chick rating: 4.6 / 5) 
				(Guy rating: 4.7 / 5)
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		| Drumming's dangerous, man. | 
	 
	
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		| Cucumber triggers security scare. | 
	 
	
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		| Eleven. Drummers drumming. | 
	 
	
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		| Hugeness of Stonehenge understated. | 
	 
	
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		| Drummer's job permanently available. | 
	 
	
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		| Meathead meets metal heads. | 
	 
	
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		| Dwarf almost tramples Stonehenge. | 
	 
	
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		| Drummers constantly spontaneously combusting. | 
	 
	
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		| Derek Smalls: Lukewarm Water. | 
	 
	
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		| Mockumentary is one louder. | 
	 
	
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		| Help Wanted: Inflammable drummer. | 
	 
	
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		| Druids. Where's my guitar? | 
	 
	
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		| Another drum guy combusts. | 
	 
	
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		| Cucumber in pants? Foiled! | 
	 
	
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		| Landmark mockumentary: 11/10. | 
	 
	
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		| Dwarves trip over monument. | 
	 
	
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		| Lost another drummer. Bummer. | 
	 
	
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		| Cleveland greeted, band lost. | 
	 
	
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		| Mock rockumentary an '11'! | 
	 
	
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		| Guest starring Rob Reiner. | 
	 
	
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		| Airport security foils zucchini. | 
	 
	
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		| Derek Smalls' big cucumber. | 
	 
	
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		| Spinal columns too short. | 
	 
	
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		| Meathead (Reiner) makes mockumentary. | 
	 
	
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		| Brainless band loses fans. | 
	 
	
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		| They will rockumentary you. | 
	 
	
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		| Album cover, none blacker. | 
	 
	
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		| Big bottoms, miniscule monoliths. | 
	 
	
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		| Elvis's grave offers perspective. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Druid' not small enough. | 
	 
	
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		| Stage difficult to find... | 
	 
	
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		| Midgets, mulletts, and moshing! | 
	 
	
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		| 'Smell the Glove' offends. | 
	 
	
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		| Guest band's downhill spiral. | 
	 
	
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		| Harry Shearer's first pod-cast. | 
	 
	
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		| Guest's skeleton is green. | 
	 
	
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		| Stonehenge in wrong dimension. | 
	 
	
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		| Shearer's role: lukewarm water. | 
	 
	
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		| Midgets dwarf Stonehenge. | 
	 
	
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		| Death metal?! Death DRUMS. | 
	 
	
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		| Meathead mocks metalhead musicians. | 
	 
	
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		| Rocker hates small bread. | 
	 
	
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		| Ballad includes 'love pump'. | 
	 
	
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		| 'King Lear' with guitars. | 
	 
	
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		| Great pseudo-documentary fun. | 
	 
	
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		| Another girlfriend ruins band. | 
	 
	
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		| Stonehenge has performance anxiety. | 
	 
	
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		| Metal bands spoofed marvelously. | 
	 
	
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		| Metalheadedness maximally moronic. Mental! | 
	 
	
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		| Armadillos in trousers, frightening. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Love pump' touches filmmaker. | 
	 
	
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		| Funniest music movie ever. | 
	 
	
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		| Hilarious, misogynistic, clueless lyrics. | 
	 
	
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		| Revolving door of drummers. | 
	 
	
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		| Reiner ribs rock royalty. | 
	 
	
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		| Gardening takes drummer's life. | 
	 
	
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