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There’s a point early on in Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick (Prime Video) when Jeremy Clarkson says: "We haven’t done this for three years". By "this" he means a Grand Tour special, feature-length films that see Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond go off on the kind of harum-scarum international cannonball run that made their names in their Top Gear days.
Viewers loved the three-go-mad-abroad travelogue element – indeed, there came a point where the bickering, boondoggling and breaking things took over from the trio’s origins as motoring journalists. Hence the invention of The Grand Tour brand itself, where what they were driving was less important than who was driving it, and where they were driving to.
A Scandi Flick looks to redress that – it’s as much a paean to great 1980s rally cars (the Scandinavian Flick was the steering move du jour) as it is the superannuated lads’ panto that has made Clarkson and co very wealthy. The intention is to re-establish the cars as the stars, and for the petrolheads there is therefore plenty of unironic talk of induction air filter kits and anti-lag on the turbo. There are even some pictures of really big tools, and no one makes a pun.
There is an argument, therefore, that when Clarkson says "We haven’t done this for three years," he should have said, "We haven’t done this for decades", because The Grand Tour long ago dispensed with any notion that it was a motoring show. The problem is that viewers really liked it as a big-budget Last of the Summer Wine, or liked it enough for Amazon to fund four previous films.
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