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Clarkson - Heaven & Hell 
Actors : Jeremy Clarkson, The Stig, Russ Swift
Director : Brian Klein
Studio : BBC Warner
by BBC Warner
Brand : Warner Brothers
Release Date : 2007-03-27
Publisher : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0794051287922
UPC : 794051287922
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 17 reviews)
List Price : $19.98
Our Price : $13.52
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Product Description |
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British personality Jeremy Clarkson host of Top Gear brings you Heaven and Hell a critical review of the best and worst cars in the automotive world. Clarkson trawls the whole of "car-dom" to bring you seven great cars and truffles the undergrowth looking for seven automotive disasters. The good ones - the Ferraris the Porsches and the Aston Martins - are driven to within an inch of their lives on the track. The bad ones are killed. Sawn in half. Hung drawn and quartered. They're hammered and blown to pieces with dynamite and their skeletons left in the open to rot. There's even some time for a game of car jousting.Running Time: 72 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 794051287922 Manufacturer No: E2879 |
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Americancivilwar.com |
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If the mere mention of Porsches, Ferraris, and Maseratis is enough to get your heart racing, you'll want to take Heaven and Hell out for a spin. Jeremy Clarkson, host of the International Emmy award-winning British series Top Gear, puts you in the driver's seat of the sports cars of your dreams (and other ill-fated vehicles of your worst nightmares). You only have to be a fan of vintage James Bond films to get a rush from the tire-smoking test drive of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Clarkson is authoritative and funny, and his enthusiasm is contagious. But woe to "the unimaginative junk built with no soul, flair or passion." "Seven deadly sinners" are dispatched to "hell" in creative ways. Clarkson purchases a Perodua, drives it across the street from the dealer, and then pummels it with a sledgehammer. He stages a jousting match between the "hateful" TR7 and a Ford Scorpio, A Citron gets the Monty Python treatment when a dumpster is dropped atop it. The test drives around the track can get repetitive, but considering that this is the closest many of us will ever get to a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti or a Porsche 911, just strap yourself in, sit back, and enjoy the ride. --Donald Liebenson |
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Fuzzy haired nitwit delivers a good un |
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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. |
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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...
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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.
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Great Cars but not as funny as the show |
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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. |
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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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