Top Gear: The Complete Season 11
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Actor: James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard HammondBrand: Warner Brothers
Host: Jeremy Clarkson
Host: Richard Hammond
Host: James May
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 1.78:1
Running Time: 364 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-01-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Subtitled; Color; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Top Gear: The Complete Season 11
Movie Review: Top Gear Tops Car Shows
Summary: 5 Stars
Hilarious and very zany. My grand kids were watching this on their laptops and laughing their heads off. I figured it was probably lousy but quickly changed my mind. If you like British humor and/or are into cars, this is a must view. I wish there were more than 3 seasons available on DVD but the BBC hasn't discovered yet what a cult hit this show has become in the US.
Summary of Top Gear: The Complete Season 11
TOP GEAR 11 - DVD MovieThere has been talk of an American version of the BBC's Top Gear, but the fact that it hasn't happened yet is probably a good thing, for aside from the obvious (i.e., the automobiles that are its raisons d'être, many of them shown in sequences filmed so beautifully and edited so slickly that the effect is equivalent to car porn), the show is distinguished by its ineffable Englishness. As usual, in this, its 11th season (with six episodes on two discs), most of that comes from hosts James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson--especially Clarkson, who offers his typical array of droll witticisms (he describes the Nissan GT-R as "discordant? like Stravinsky designed it," while the Alfa Romeo 8C Competzione, "the most beautiful car ever made," is so gorgeous that "I wouldn't care if the sat-nav had Tourette's"). Each episode is likely to include a look at some fabulously unaffordable luxury car (in addition to the above, there are the Ferrari Scuderia, "the bastard love child of Stephen Hawking and Rambo"; the Galue, a virtual Rolls Royce clone from Japan; and the Mercedes AMG Black, "the kin of Cain"), plus a "cheap car challenge," in which the three hosts must buy a vehicle for less than a thousand pounds and, in one instance, convert it to a police car, and "Star(s) in a Reasonably Priced Car," in which celebrities drive a lap around a racetrack in an ordinary sedan (these segments will be of limited interest to non-Brit viewers, as the celebs are little known elsewhere). But the best bits are the competitions pitting an automobile against various other forms of transportation. In "Race Across Japan," Clarkson drives the Nissan some 400 miles across that country while May and Hammond ride the bullet train, a ferry, and a cable car; in another segment, Hammond races an Audi RS6 down a mountain road while two skiers hurtle down the mountain itself. As always, the camera work and production values are first-rate, and the show is brimming with fantastic scenery and judiciously chosen effects work. And even if Top Gear may be starting to run out of gas--this season isn't quite as much fun as those from previous years--this is still the best car show around. --Sam Graham
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