Clarkson: Heaven & Hell
by Brian Klein
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DVD details
Actor: Jeremy Clarkson, Russ Swift, The StigDirector: Brian Klein
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Jeremy Clarkson
Cinematographer: Rod Fountain
Producer: Brian Klein
Editor: Paul Richmond
Producer: Ian Brown
Producer: Paul Hembury
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 72 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- 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 live
DVD Reviews of Clarkson: Heaven & Hell
DVD Review: Disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
As a long time Clarkson fan I was looking forward to sitting down and spending some time with this DVD but I was sadly disappointed.
Part of the problem is that with the advent of production cars such as the Veyron and Koenigsegg, the "Heaven" cars on this agenda are just not as impressive as they would have been when the show was first produced. Top speeds of 170 and 180 are just plain "meh" when - with a fat wallet - one can have a car with over 1000bhp, reaches 60mph in under 3 seconds and tops 250 on the open road. Since Clarkson is demonstrating cars he approves of, and all are similar performance cars, the "Heaven" sequences become formulaic and, dare I say it, even slightly boring.
The "Hell" segments are shorter and for the most part there is limited valid explanation as to why they are so bad; one gets the impression they are simply cars that Clarkson himself doesn't like. More than anything, they seem to be segues into the next "Heaven" sequence, rather like the articles about subjects like geography and airplanes which appear in porn magazines. Most of the highlights are in the "Hell" chapters such as the jousting tournament between the TR& and the Ford Scorpio, which deserves to be a staple event at demolition derbies worldwide, and the explosive demolition of the nasty little Kelisa.
Personally I would enjoy seeing Clarkson doing an entire show on terrible cars, why they are terrible, and creative and terrible ways to destroy them. "Heaven and Hell" is worth a watch but doesn't stand up to repeated viewing, unless you are a performance car marque junkie.
DVD Review: Heaven and Hell Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Typical Clarkson pretty much testing all the best cars for the 2004 season of Top Gear. I love this guy, he never siezes to make me laugh and seeing some of the stunts are pretty impressive. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I have seen every episode of Top Gear and some of the cars/junky cars they tested they also did in the show. DVD Review: I love Top Gear.. This guy is hilarious!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really love the BBC show Top Gear. This DVD is a special the Clarkson made outside the series. I was really looking for a DVD of the Top Gear series. This was a good substitute as the jocularity and insight was spot on. I love that they call out manufacturers of terrible unimaginative cars and then find ways to destroy them.. Then there is the heaven part where they praise and review supercars. What is really neat is they way the drive them all out.
BBC... I am still waiting for my Top Gear series DVD sets. So please get on it!!
DVD Review: Clarkson - Heaven & Hell
Summary: 5 Stars
Any one that is a car/motor head fan they will love this video.
Has lots of detail crashes and cutting up very expen$ive cars.
DVD Review: good to watch
Summary: 5 Stars
this was a good movie to watch since i cant get top gear seasons in the US. it is worth the money you pay for it but it always leaves u wanting more.
Description of Clarkson: Heaven & Hell
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.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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