The second Spinal Tap rockumentary is a waste of your money if you buy a ticket, and a waste of your time if you see it for free. This dispiriting and dismal comedy of tribute will extract pained smiles from the Gen X cohort that memorized it on VHS as teenagers. Younger viewers who, absent anything fresher, have fallen back on their parents’ parodies will be reminded to try harder. Otherwise, this tapped-out tedium is not benign. It is symptomatic not just of the long twilight of the Boomers, but the way in which that dimming of their light leaves us on a darkling plain. If this is the best we’ve got, then it’s lights out.
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