A closer look at some of the extras will demonstrate what I mean. The Ghostbusters DVD received a lot of hype because of its "video commentary." This meant that instead of just hearing the participants talk about the film, we could also SEE their silhouettes Mystery Science Theater 3000 style.

I guess that sounded like a cool idea, but in reality, it's an almost complete bust. Oh, the commentary from director Ivan Reitman, actor/cowriter Harold Ramis, and associate producer Joe Medjuck offers a solid discussion of the making of the film. It's not the best I've heard, but the three of them do a good job of providing interesting facts about the picture.

So as an audio commentary, it's just fine. My question is: what's the point of the video part? Although if you look closely, you'll notice that the three shadows do move, they rarely do so significantly enough to warrant attention; they might as well have put a stationary cutout up on the screen. The idea sounds vaguely interesting, but the fact stands that there's absolutely no point to it, at least as it's executed here. I never watch films and listen to audio commentaries; I prefer to tape them and listen to them in my car. I made an exception for Ghostbusters just because I wanted to see if the video aspect would add anything. It doesn't. Do what I should have done: tape it and listen to it at your leisure.