This is Spinal Tap

"When Rob Reiner and his crew made This Is Spinal Tap, they had no idea it would become a cult classic. Imagine their surprise when it makes history again, this time as the first film to really make the case for watching a movie on computer. This isn't just an electronic book with the film as an appendix. Here the film is center stage. Setting the standard the way its Criterion Collection did for laserdiscs, Voyager has tweaked the QuickTime until Spinal Tap actually looks like a movie. The real excitement, though, is how the strengths of laserdisc have combined with those of CD-ROM in a dazzling new technology. The disc contains all sorts of supplementary materials, but they're inside the movie, instead of added on or in the way. We guarantee that This Is Spinal Tap will transform the way you experience movies.

How? Because there's real random access on the fly, via an incredible 'smart search' that actually translates language into film. (Okay, that's what it feels like.) Search on almost anything in this expert satire of an aging English heavy-metal band -- dialogue, locations, props, gags, songs, albums, even objects -- just by typing in the word. Try 'tongue' and there's Nigel Tufnel sticking out his tongue. 'Bath,' and there's the drummer in the tub, shower cap and all. 'We love you,' and Derek Smalls will mouth the words right back at you, instantly. This is also the first CD-ROM with three concurrent audio tracks: the movie soundtrack in Dolby Stereo Surround sound; commentary from Rob Reiner, the editors, and the producer; and original input from three guys who step out of their wigs and spandex for the first time ever (actors Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer) and talk about how their characters have developed since Spinal Tap got its first gig in 1978. Appropriately, the interface is an amplifier (yes, it goes to 11) that controls the volume and speed of the movie. Watch it straight through. Join the rockers anywhere on the road via a map of their ill-fated cross-country tour. Click on Polaroids of eighteen key scenes tacked up on the bulletin board and go straight to any one. The point is that Spinal Tap opens up to become a new movie every time you watch it. Why This Is Spinal Tap? Because this hilarious cult fave is never available at the video store. Because the superb audio plays at four times the Macintosh maximum (how appropriate for 'one of England's loudest bands'). Because John Belushi had a copy with him when he died, and Sting's seen it fifty times (that's what he told Rob Reiner). Because this one's better.

Bonus CD: More than an hour of QuickTime music videos, outrageous outtakes, trailers, and TV spots, plus over 1,500 images from the band's archives -- stills, memorabilia, script treatments, and more! -- from Voyager