That’s all I should have to say. 18″ high Stone Henge<\/b>, and you will know the movie I watched last night for the 20th time.<\/p>\n
The image of that tiny Stone Henge descending behind Michael McKean is one of the funniest visual gags I can think of. Funny, because the humor has already been set up in the scene between the artist (Anjelica Huston) and the producer. You suddenly realize that Christopher Guest had given her incorrect specs … and so once the concert begins you wait for the appearance of the tiny Stone Henge. And no matter how many times I’ve seen it, it doesn’t lose its funniness.<\/p>\n
And then come the RIDICULOUS dancing dwarves who knock over the Stone Henge … and Michael McKean’s irritated comment after the show, “No, the real problem <\/i> out there was that two dwarves knocked over our Stone Henge.”<\/p>\n
More funniness:<\/p>\n
— Fran Drescher as the record company exec, explaining why the album cover for Spinal Tap’s latest (called Sniff the Glove<\/i>) is sexist and offensive.<\/p>\n
— Billy Crystal as the pissed-off mime catering manager. hahaha<\/p>\n
— All of them trying (and badly) to harmonize “Heartbreak Hotel” while standing over Elvis Presley’s grave.<\/p>\n
— Rob Reiner, in general<\/p>\n
— Anjelica Huston’s one teeny scene. It is so funny. How she realizes, with horror, that she has built the Stone Henge too small. “What do you mean – the real thing? This … this is<\/i> the real thing…”<\/p>\n
— the one random scene where they’re all at the zoo, and they start talking about apes, and Christopher Guest says casually that apes can speak, they can say little things like “Yes, please” and “no” – it’s just that they CHOOSE not to speak.<\/p>\n
— the concert scene at the Air Force Base where they sing “Sex Farm” to a horrified military public. hahaha “Sex Farm”.<\/p>\n
— Christopher Guest showing off all his guitars to Rob Reiner, and then there’s the one that is so special that Reiner can’t touch it – and can’t even look<\/i> at it<\/p>\n
— Harry Shearer caught inside that chrysalis-thing onstage during a performance. His desperation growing, banging on the inside to be let out, the stage-hand finally coming on with the blowtorch … hahahaha<\/p>\n
— oh, and Bruno Kirby as the irritable Frank Sinatra-loving limo driver, who confesses, quietly, to the producer of Spinal Tap: “These guys don’t know, do they?” “Know what?” asks the producer. Kirby answers, “That this is all just a fad.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That’s all I should have to say. 18″ high Stone Henge, and you will know the movie I watched last night for the 20th time. The image of that tiny Stone Henge descending behind Michael McKean is one of the … Continue reading