Few extras plague 'Ned Kelly' DVD

Ned Kelly" is the tale of a gang of famous Australian outlaws, led by the notorious title character. The Kelly Gang, as they came to be known, robbed a bank, killed some policemen and staged a shootout with a train full of police, surviving by using homemade steel helmets and chest plates, which make them look strikingly similar to the Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." \nThe movie looks and feels wonderful. The film, with a story that has been expanded and exaggerated for the past 120 years or so, has a gritty, realistic feel to it, while still retaining its "legend" status. The heroes, two of which are played brilliantly (and handsomely) by Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom, have an almost mythic stature to them. Ledger and Bloom, despite their teeny-bopper eye candy status, play their parts beautifully. The movie is an all-around interesting and enjoyable film.\nHowever, the DVD extras are actually quite painful to watch. There is only one featurette, which chronicles the history behind the story of the Kelly Gang and Ned Kelly's place in Australian pop culture. The featurette is mildly interesting to a history buff, but will probably be a bit dry for your run-of-the-mill DVD viewer. The rest of the "features" are lame: pictures of artist sketches, pictures of the real Kelly gang, posters and a couple of trailers.\nThe story of Ned Kelly may be legendary, but the DVD extras of "Ned Kelly" definitely aren't.