Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)

Timing: 1:23 (83 min)

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All about film

Video 6

Photo 21

Actors and characters

Release date

2025-09-12

Country

United States

Production

Castle Rock Entertainment

Genre

Comedy, Music

Budget

$22 600 000

Revenue

$3 344 424

Website

https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/spinal-tap-ii

Director

Rob Reiner

Actors

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Valerie Franco, Jeffery C.J. Vanston, Jean Cromie, Kerry Godliman, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood
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Scenario

Rob Reiner, Michael McKean

Producer

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Michele Reiner, Matthew George, Derrick Rossi, Hernan Narea, Jonathan Fuhrman, Christopher H. Warner

Operator

Lincoln Else

Composer

Artist

Michelle Belfield

Audition

David Rubin

Editing

Bob Joyce
All team (121)

• The narrow checkered black and white trousers worn by Michael McKean's character are a reference to Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick from the late 1970s, who wore similar trousers at the height of his fame.
• Tony Hendra, who played the band's producer in the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' (1984), died in 2021, and his daughter Kerry Gadlimen plays him in the sequel.
• In the archival clip, the band is shown rehearsing before a performance in Gloucester (where a traditional cheese-rolling race is held annually on the last Monday in May).
• John Michael Higgins' character wears a jumpsuit and ballet flats, a reference to Jack LaLanne.
• In appearance and name (baseball cap, beard, etc.), Rob Reiner's character Marty Di Bergi is a reference to Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, and Steven Spielberg.
• Michael McKean's character wears a Shank Hall t-shirt, a fictional establishment in Milwaukee where the band performed in the original 1984 film. In July 1984, a music promoter organized a performance by the band at the UW-Madison Ballroom and promised its members that if he ever opened a club in Milwaukee, he would name it Shank Hall. He did indeed open a club with that name in Milwaukee five years later.
• Tony Hendra, who played the band's producer in the film "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984), died in 2021, and his daughter Kerry Gadliman appears in the sequel.