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Dom Robinson reviews
VCI
- Cert:
- Cat.no: VCD 0239
- Running time: 53 minutes
- Year: 2002
- Pressing: 2002
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 16
- Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Stereo)
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Widescreen: 1.78:1
- 16:9-enhanced: Yes
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 5
- Price: £19.99
- Extras: None
Director:
- Brian Klein
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Producer:
- Brian Klein
Written and Presented by:
- Jeremy Clarkson
Music:
- Brian Hodgson and Peter Lincoln
Crash! Bang! Wallop! What a video!
No, I wasn’t enthusing about this latest Jeremy Clarkson offering, but was commenting that it’s getting as cheesy as the Alan Partridge pisstake in the first episode of his new series.
On the plus side, the title, “No Limits”, does not mean we are subjected to an hour of Jonathan King’s mid-80s BBC2 music show, but it instead shows Clarkson going on about his favourite cars including the BMW Z8, Lamborghini Murcielago, Porsche Boxter and the “Semtex with a steering wheel”, the 1000 BHP Nissan Skyline R33, doing handbrake turns, powersliding, the quickest way to get round a corner and how best to stop when things go wrong.
Sounds fine in principle – and at times it can be a bit of fun, but if it wasn’t for the Xmas market, who in their right mind would spend a penny under twenty notes for such a short video that doesn’t even last an hour and is around the same length as your average episode of Top Gear?
The programme is presented in anamorphic 16:9 and looks fine, but so you’d expect it to given that it’s only been made recently. The sound is in basic stereo/surround. You can hear the cars growling along the track as you would if it was on TV, and that’s part of the problem – it has nothing to make it stand out from what you’d see on TV.
The other part is that there’s no extras. Just 16 chapters, an animated main menu on a short loop of music, but no subtitles either. Disappointing.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.