I’m reasonably optimistic it will be funny.
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I hope so. The extras to the ST dvd aren’t funny and you can see why they were cut.
Hopefully it won’t be another ‘The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch’
Sorry @Gatz didn’t see your prior post.
No worries. I see we share cautious optimism.
Ollie Reeder from The Thick Of It has been hitting the gym!
I am sharing this cautious optimism, the trailer shows some promise! There is a also a Rob Reiner book ‘A Fine Line between Stupid and Clever’ due out n September
https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-fine-line-between-stupid-and-clever/rob-reiner/christopher-guest/9781398554931
there at the end where he says ‘ah, very much thinking outside the box’ and you can see he’s channeling Hugh Bonneville in 2012 etc…
Apropos of Rob Reiner unexpectedly popping up in a small role in The Bear, last night I was regaling a group of friends with his completely ludicrous directoral opening salvo:
1984 – This Is Spinal Tap
1985 – The Sure Thing
1986 – Stand By Me
1987 – The Princess Bride
1989 – When Harry Met Sally
Seminal films across multiple genres. He then followed up with Misery and A Few Good Men before losing the magic touch. Still, what an introduction.
Amazing to think that at the same time as he was making those, his father, Carl Reiner had just come off that run of Steve Martin movies that started with The Jerk in 1979 and ran up until All of Me.
I remain optimistic it will be good, although it’s a bit of a problem when the funniest bits in the trailer are clips from the original.
And does Macca (and presumably Elton) praising Tap seem like a possible misstep too when one of the key Tap qualities has been their general shittiness?
You’ve all probably seen these videos by now. I don’t think they bode well for the film. It all seems too self aware, too conscious. But Michael McKean and Harry Shearer come out with some funny comments here and there. My hope is that Reiner shot a gazillion hours of film and can find lots of genuinely funny bits to whittle it down to.
Elton has done some absolutely sublime music, but he’s become an ‘attention barnacle’, attaching himself to anything that keeps his Mr. Showbiz persona to the fore. I wish he would bugger off.
Predictably mixed reviews
Good: Gruan, Irish Times, Irish Independent
Poor: Times, Independent, Scotsman
Might watch when it comes on streaming, but not that bothered