In a surprise to absolutely nobody, Spinal Tap II turns the nostalgia up to eleven. If you haven’t seen the first film, you’ll be left scratching your head as there’s nothing new here on offer. If you’re a Tap fan, you came to hear Big Bottoms, you came to see the 2025 version of Stonehenge. Fast forward to today and Spinal Tap II has avoided mission creep by not trying too hard to be relevant. It nods to the jokes from the first movie, pays tribute to them but never tries to build anything new.