It's too bad there's already a movie with the title "Almost Famous," because the new-to-DVD rock n' roll documentary, "Anvil: The Story of Anvil", is a perfect fit for it. After all, this way too up-close and way too personal look at a couple of Canadian metalheads closing in on 50 and still clinging to their golden-god dreams is both sadly tragic and oddly inspiring. It's also fantastic in every way.

When "Anvil" hit theaters back in April, critics called the film a real-life Spinal Tap. Which is spot-on as far as it goes. What that comparison doesn't really get at, however, is the deep and dysfunctional love between the movie's two main characters -- Anvil's deluded, short-fused frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow and the band's mellow jackhammer drummer, Robb Reiner -- not to be confused with the other Rob Reiner, who actually directed "Spinal Tap."

As the movie opens, we see the band back in their 1980s glory days, when they were performing on the same Japan metal festival bill as Whitesnake, the Scorpions and Bon Jovi. We all know what happened to those guys -- they went on to sell zillions of records and are probably lounging in a bathtub full of money right this second. What happened to Anvil, on the other hand, was less sexy. They put out a bunch of records that didn't sell well and flamed out. They were forced to get day jobs. But they never gave up on their hopes of making it, even after their hairlines started receding.

In the story of Anvil, we see Lips and Reiner struggle to get that second chance, playing to small crowds in European dive bars and squabbling like an old married couple, which in many ways they are. And that's the beauty of the film. Yes, it's a send-up of how ludicrous heavy metal is, but it is, at its heart, a deeply touching love story between two guys who want to rock all night and party every day.

Now for a look at what else is new on DVD: in "The Proposal," Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds star in a screwball romantic comedy; in "Drag Me To Hell," Sam Raimi directs a horror flick about a girl slapped with a gypsy curse; and in "Land of the Lost," Will Ferrell riffs on a classic Saturday morning kids' TV show.