The Grand Tour: Feed the World (2018)

Fresh and Exciting

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

"Cure World Hunger" was their tag. Sounds like a noble ideal. Sadly, it was downhill from there.To be honest, after the first ten minutes as they had set out how they were going to transport fish from the coast 200 miles to the hungry, starving people I fast forwarded. Stopping several times in between. But it was what we'd already seen the trio doing so many times before.In the end they were trying to sell rotten fish before flying out in a helicopter. Isn't that just crass?This is the season where GT should have excelled after finding their feet with the first one. Alas, there was so few good articles. Is the problem they've abused so many press-cars that no manufacturer will let them have access any more? Surely with the Amazon budget they could just buy the cars they're about to trash instead?Not worth keeping your Amazon Prime membership for.

Really, if they want to drive in mud just go to the boggers races, this was a too lame scripted effort, I would use the "s" word but too polite. Mozambique deserves better.Is there any coincidence for TGT season ending just before TG season starts?

I usually like watching these three, but today no... The first thing that put me off was the idea that, supposedly, they were trying to help some poor people, but deliberately choose to pursue stupid ideas. You do not have to be a genius in order to see that their means of transporting fish were all doomed to fail...I guess people like these three for the interaction between them, but that stops being funny when it's the only thing you see in the film. The culmination of the episode was that, after failing to do what they were planning, they left the poor village in a helicopter. The cost of that alone could have fed the village for quite some time, I guess... Best parts of Top Gear/The Grand Tour were those where they succeeded something interesting. It is entartaining watching someone manage to do something you can't do or can't ever afford. However, failing intentionally is just not funny.

I can see why the rating of this episode is so low. It's not because the episode itself is bad, it's a very typical "special" episode, feels much like old Top Gear special episodes, it's all in one piece, no guests, reviews or studio scenes. In fact it's the most "Top Geary" of all TGT episodes so far in terms of how it was filmed and how it felt to watch. What is bad is the fact that they approach a topic of a country being incredibly poor and people in it starving with an overly silly approach, almost mocking the misfortune of the people indirectly, because they've wasted enough food to feed a 50 people during this episode. It also contains multiple scenes of what some people might consider to be "fish abuse", if you like. Of course, catching fish, killing it, eating it, etc. is a part of nature, as harsh as it may be, especially in parts of the world where people are desperately trying to survive, so expecting a "humane" approach from them is less than realistic. Overall it's a pretty good episode, as long as you approach it knowing that it's going to have things in it that some people might find offensive or repulsive, consider it a more serious episode, a sort of mockocumentary dealing with problems of poverty, lack of food, lack of infrastructure, etc.