The Grand Tour: Feed the World (2018)

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

"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.

Ok,it is clear that they are making fun of celebs who fly in and do some charity,get photos taken, and then fly back. I get it. And I don't expect these guys to be sensitive and sincere in their efforts, they always fail intentionally. However,this time it was not entertaining at all. The whole episode was monotonous. In previous specials, they usually did a more variety of things, there interaction with people other than themselves, a change in scenery. This was just the three talking to each other on a 200 mile trip, which was forcefully extended to seem entertaining.

I would've thought the you would actually do something good this time around with all that budged...Worst "Special" EVER!

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.