NEW YORK -- Even with Martin Scorsese behind the camera, I'm not sure the Rolling Stones really needed another documentary. The director certainly has a challenge on his hands too, since so many Stones films over the years have become classics -- 1970's "Gimme Shelter" being the best of the bunch.

But maybe Scorsese felt that he owed the band. After all, he shoehorns their songs into almost all of his movies, as if he got some sort of kick-back from their record label.

Scorsese's new DVD “Shine a Light” is more or less a standard-issue concert film, albeit with snazzier camera work and a little last-minute behind the scenes panicking before the Stones take the stage. A lot of this feels sort of staged and phony, with Scorsese frantically scrambling before the lights go up, trying to make sure he's covered in case the Stones open the set with “Jumping Jack Flash” or “Satisfaction.”

But once the show starts and the cameras zoom in on the oldest bad boys in rock, things settle down and you can actually enjoy their guided tour through five decades of hits.

Filmed at New York's Beacon Theater, the Stones are in better, more intimate form than they tend to be in their stadium shows, where most mortals who don't want to spend $500 for tickets wind up watching them on a Jumbotron anyway.

Here, we see them up close and personal, for better and wrinkly-faced worse. Jagger still has untapped amounts of energy, preening and strutting like a peacock. Keith Richards looks like a chainsmoking scarecrow, but he's still got the same guitar chops. Ron Wood pinballs around like the band's giddy youngest brother. And Charlie Watts sits regally behind the drum kit, above it all, dapper and unfazed.

Guests like Buddy Guy, Christina Aguilera, and Jack White of the White Stripes drop in for cameos too. But the real draw here, as it's always been, is the interplay between Mick and Keith -- two bickering geezers acting like kids onstage because the music makes them young.

Now for a look at what else is new on DVD: in “Nim's Island,” Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster star in a fish-out-of-water island adventure; in “Star Trek,” the second season of Shatner's sci-fi series gets a box set; and in “The Art of War II,” Wesley Snipes returns for a straight-to-DVD action sequel.