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    ‘Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues’ Assessment: A Half-Humorous Mocku-Sequel Huffs the Fumes of Its Personal Inspiration

    David GroveBy David GroveSeptember 11, 20255 Mins Read
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    If you happen to’re not already eager on “This Is Spinal Faucet,” Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary a couple of faux English rock band that successfully began the style, there may not be a lot for you in “Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues.” Reiner returns in entrance of the digital camera as documentary filmmaker Marty Di Bergi in addition to behind it to direct this four-decades-in-waiting sequel, which reunites ex-bandmates David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Visitor), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer).

    The final movie ended on a Druid-themed glam rock present that turned the band right into a laughing inventory; in “The Finish Continues,” properly, the tip continues as a result of it seems contractually there was a hidden clause in Spinal Faucet’s contract that obligates them to placed on one final present. The difficulty with “The Finish Continues” just isn’t a lot the film’s high quality because the band’s: Are they presupposed to be dangerous, good, or good-bad?

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    Candidly, I’ve not seen the unique film in additional than 20 years, however “The Finish Continues” doesn’t precisely ship you dashing again to your VHS or DVD copy of the unique. Moderately, you may be content material to depart it on the shelf because it was.

    As with the primary movie, “Spinal Faucet II” is written by McKean, Visitor, and Shearer, whose bewigged characters 40 years after their final tour — during which a stunt involving a miniaturized Stonehenge trilithon went disastrously awry, amongst different blunders — at the moment are far-flung and out of the music enterprise. Vocal frontman David (McKean) is now residing in Morro Bay, writing music for homicide podcasts and the rating for a low-budget horror film referred to as “Night time of the Assisted Residing Lifeless.” Lead guitarist Nigel (Visitor) resides in Berwick-Upon-Tweed as a cheesemonger and says, “I don’t miss the friction,” with regard to his globally touring previous. Bass participant Derek (Shearer), in the meantime, lives in London, the place he’s working a glue museum. He’s additionally composed a symphony referred to as “Hell Toupé.” Say that out loud, and it stirs up a minor chuckle.

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    A heart-on-its-sleeve, inoffensive, and amusing sequel in regards to the legacies we run away from solely to return crashing again into them in center or later age, “Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues” forcibly returns characters from the primary film performed by Paul Shaffer and Fran Drescher, little greater than fan-service padding. The movie additionally finds the Spinal Faucet metalheads considering their mortality as soon as once more, as famously they’ve lengthy had horrible luck holding down a drummer (i.e., preserving them alive amid a string of mysterious deaths). Right here, they maintain a sequence of auditions on the highway to their reunion tour set for New Orleans, speaking to everybody from Questlove to a Blue Man Group drummer, and even Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame, earlier than touchdown on lesbian drummer Didi Crockett (Valerie Franco, an precise IRL drummer).

    Different music world celebrities float out and in of the film, from Paul McCartney, who incites panic within the rehearsal room, to Elton John, who really finally ends up onstage with Spinal Faucet and in a slapstick pratfall (and blatant callback to the primary film) that deliberately or not reminds of the singer/songwriter’s personal mortal fallibility. Nation singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood additionally present up apropos of nada, maybe simply to indicate the band’s proximity to different music legends and the place they’re slotted in a fictional music universe.

    It is a film that may in all probability be actually humorous in case you had been excessive. The laughs are principally dry and deadpan, relying in your closeness to and fondness for the fabric — in different phrases, very a lot according to the mockumentary world of producer Christopher Visitor, from “Greatest in Present” to “A Mighty Wind.” Frequent visitor collaborator John Michael Higgins steals his one scene in “The Finish Continues” as a flamboyant private coach employed to whip the band into form.

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    Followers must be grateful to have “Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues” as a very uncynical reanimated ghost of I.P. previous. In spite of everything, the unique 1984 movie almost wasn’t made in any respect, with Reiner and the filmmakers knocking on the door of almost each studio and principally rejected. With its legacy these days, “The Finish Continues” will need to have been a neater promote. The legacy of the band itself, although? We’re not so certain.

    Grade: C+

    Bleecker Avenue will launch “Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues” in theaters Friday, September 12.

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