Some of the offerings on the 2025 movie calendar have proved that it’s never too late to revisit an old classic. We’ve had I Know What You Did Last Summer (which came 19 years after its previous installment), The Naked Gun (31 years after its last movie), and now there’s Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which has both of those beat with 41 years separating it from 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. Critics have seen the highly anticipated sequel to one of the best music movies ever made, so does it go to 11?
Critics are weighing in on the return of Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), as filmmaker Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) documents the band’s reunion and final show. Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence gives the rockumentary Spinal Tap II: The End Continues an A-, calling it a “joyful, music-filled ride” that’s worthy of the band’s legacy. She writes:
