Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14296 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-11-07
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 72 minutes

DVD Description
And so, this is the big one.

I trawl the whole of cardom to bring you seven great cars and truffle the undergrowth looking for seven automotive disasters. The good ones - the Ferraris, the Porches and the Aston Martins are driven to within an inch of their lives on the track. Some are even handed over to the Stig who makes a guest appearance. 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. I even find time for a game of car jousting.

It's Heaven then, and Hell.

Enjoy.

Synopsis
Jeremy Clarkson reviews the cars of 2005 and judges them as 'sinners' or 'saints'.

Customer Reviews

Clarkson doing what he does best.
Anonther one of Jeremy Clarkson's annual DVD's and, although this one is themed differently and on first impressions appears generally different, it really isn't. It is still highly enjoyable, though, and you can't help but laugh out loud when he buys a brand new car from the dealer then proceeds to smash it up with a sledgehammer right under the salesmen's noses. That car was definitely one of the cars going to hell. It is very childish but this DVD mixes the destructive stuff quite well with the tyre-smoking, exhaust barking, engine thrashing stuff too. As usual then- if you can't get enough of our Jezza (and I can't) then you'll love this. If you don't then you probably won't have even got to this part of the review. Highly enjoyable, good old fashioned, heart warming viewing. Highly recommended.

A little bit of heaven, but mostly hell...
Clarkson is a motoring god... The man can make a Haynes manual sound interesting and his analogies on Top Gear often make be blurt whatever I am drinking at the time out of my nose, but Heaven & Hell leaves a lot to be desired.

The DVD runs for a paltry 72 minutes (~65 once all the music and other fluff is taken out) and is split approximately 70:30 between Heaven and Hell - the shockingly good and the absolutely awful of the motor industry - but there lies the problem with the DVD... It promised so much good stuff involving supercars and so much destruction of the hellions yet fails to deliver on both counts.

The Supercars are just paraded around as if they're on Top Gear with none of the wit, clever writing or set pieces seen in the show and the Perodua is the only 'Hell' car that even gets a proper send off - The Metro is hardly destroyed (instead, they get a stunt driver to recreate a scene from The Driver), the Toyota is just driven into a wall and two others just get involved in a head on shunt.
Basically, this is yet another disappointed venture by the number one motoring journalist when he attempts to do anything that doesn't specifically feature TG in the title... Just watch BBC 2 on Sundays at 8pm and save your money!

10% new material, Come on clarkson
If you are a regular viewer of BBC's Top Gear then I’m afraid that you may be a little disappointed with this DVD. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy watching monstrously bad cars being Tortured and destroyed as much as the next bloke, but the rest of the DVD is just re-shot reviews of cars that have been on top gear and Clarkson repeating his comments.