Here we are at the end of our chart and just piping Walk the Line to the number one spot of the Best music Movie is This is Spinal Tap.Directed by Rob reiner the film was a mockumentary it’s purpose to satarise the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands.A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, This Is Spinal Tap practically birthed the mockumentary style.Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, respectively--three clueless, self-absorbed men who form the nucleus of Spinal Tap, aging purveyors of overwrought songs with titles such as "Big Bottom," "Smell the Glove," and "Sex Farm." Shot in faux cinema verité-style with director Rob Reiner as fictional filmmaker Marty DiBergi, the film lampoons just about every rock & roll cliché (not to mention every rockumentary cliché) in the book as it follows these fallen rock idols from one disastrous gig to the next. Scenes of the tour's descent from desperation into total collapse are interspersed with interviews in which the band members delightfully prattle on inanely about the none-too-illustrious history and dubious vision of Spinal Tap.

However when it was released the film only had a moderate success as it struggled to convince the audience that it was not a real documentary.

However when it was released on VHS, and more recently DVD This is Spinal Tap enjoyed major success as it gained a cult following.

The film is a hilariously scathing indictment of the rock and roll lifestyle with a witty script with great performances from the cast.

The band itself has lived beyond the film, further blurring the lines between reality and film, as the fictitious group reunited for a series of concerts and television specials.

It’s success was further highlighted in 2002, when it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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