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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

★★★★

(M) 84 minutes

Christopher Guest’s inspired comic creation Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap has a straight-faced guilelessness that reminds me of Buster Keaton.

It’s not that he takes himself with undue seriousness. He’s preoccupied instead with the irrationality of the world itself. On one famous occasion, he became baffled by the size of the bread in the band’s backstage snack. Why was it sliced into a piece so small that it couldn’t accommodate a sliver of salami?

After 40 years, Nigel and the boys are back. They still have long hair, although it now makes them resemble a group of grandmothers, while their eyeliner gives them the sad-eyed expression of a family of grieving bloodhounds. And they have found new occupations. Nigel runs a shop sell

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