Just bought the latest version of Monty Python & The Holy Grail
I've said before that I'm not a huge Python fan, but there were so many extras on the DVD (2nd hand, £6) that it seemed worth it. I'd only ever seen it on TV before and I read Michael Palin's diaries last year and it whetted my appetite.
So far I am disappointed.
Not with the film - I knew what I was buying there.
I started with the extra I was most excited about - the commentary by Cleese/ Idle/ Palin. They were all recorded separately and spliced together. So no interaction, very often no comment at all, and no really amusing anecdotes.
I'm spoiled. My comedy heroes (The League of Gentlemen) are close friends and naturally funny - even when they're bitter the commentaries are worth the price of the DVD on their own. And they bounce off eachother marvellously - their special guest commentary on Blood on Satan's Claw is a comedy masterpiece.
And of course Mssrs Pegg & Wright who balance and counterbalance eachother's geekiness/ technicality/ humour with damn near perfection. Or at least they provide so many extras any dross gets forgotten
I'll bear with it - a host of extras I have yet to watch, including the Making Of mentioned in Palin's diary (this is a published book btw, I didn't just break in). It may satisfy me yet.