| |  | DVD Clarkson - Heaven & Hell |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - Fuzzy haired nitwit delivers a good un
Clarkson drives some fine and atrocious cars in this DVD. The good include truly sublime rides, the bad are just ridiculous. This is great entertainment & strongly recommended. Good fun.
Rating:  - No Substitute for Top Gear.
True gearheads will adore this video, but fans of Top Gear whose interest in cars is at best casual will long for more. The fun thing about Top Gear isn't the cars spinning around the track, it's the interaction of three chronically mismatched personalities with only one shared passion- automobiles. This video has only Jeremy Clarkson (with brief appearances by The Stig), and the lack of any real challenging viewpoint, much less the lunatic interaction of Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May we're used to, hurts badly.
To make things worse, this series of car reviews is leavened by far too brief bits on the "hell" cars, the vehicles Clarkson regards as an affront to driving. Of course, the "heaven and hell" theme is tenuous at best: all the "heaven" cars, with one exception, come from a single model year (2005); none of the "hell" cars, with the exception of one bought straight off the lot, is younger than five. All of the "heaven" cars have big "shouty" engines, sporty handling, and high top speeds; only one "hell" car might have had a shouty engine in the 1970s when it was made. Even the terms "heaven and hell" are references seldom, with stream-of-consciousness threading threatening to remove this reviewer's consciousness.
Top Gear fans- rent, and enjoy... but only buy if you're a true gearhead who doesn't mind seeing cars rushing by again, again, again, again, again, again, again...
Rating: - If you love Top Gear...
While the Heaven portions of the DVD were just that...the demolition of innocent cars was a bit disturbing in a Monty Python sort of way...
I love Top Gear and Jeremy never lets me down when I need a laugh or an "oooh" at some amazing piece of art/machine.
A fun way to spend a bit of time.
Rating: - Great Cars but not as funny as the show
The DVD is entertaining and contains a boat load of great cars, of course, however it's not as funny as the show "Top Gear".That being said the DVD has this feature, which lets you cut out all the music so you can listen just to the car engines.
Rating: - Entertaining
Nope this isn't as good as Top Gear, but it does feature some superb cars, as well as the rubbish.
FYI the cars are:
Maserati Quattroporte
Renault Espace
Aston Martin DB9 Volante, Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Range Rover Sport
Triumph TR7
Ford Scorpio
Perodua Kelisa
BMW M5
Ferrari F340, Ferrari Enzo, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
VW Golf GTI
Citroen 2CV
Chevrolet Corvette
TVR Sagaris
Vauxhall Monaro
As some previous reviewers have already said, in places it is funny, but it lacks the spark that Clarkson has when he's working with Hammond and May. He may be the star, and the best thing about Top Gear, but he is not as good without Hammond and May.
Fortunately for me I picked this up very cheap. If I'd paid the normal price for this it would only have got 3 stars from me.
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