DVD
Gumball Rally 3000

Starring: Various
Universal Pictures Video
RRP: £17.99
8222153
Certificate: 18
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Around 150 Supercars, 3000 Miles, 14 arrests and over $50,000 in fines. Fasten your seatbelts, start up your engines for the movie of the Gumball 3000 Rally from San Francisco to Miami. Amazing cars, including Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bentleys and the Swedish Koenigsegg Supercar set off for six days of driving to the limit, hitting speeds of over 240 mph on the highways of America...

When I first read the synopsis for Gumball 3000 I was convinced it was going to be one of those fake documentaries. But no, this is for real. Make no mistake, this is a DVD packed full of organised illegal speeding. And it's quite sad to see how pathetic most of the entrants really are.

While fast cars and cop chases may appeal to under 15s (this has an 18 certificate by the way) why anyone over the age of 18 would want to watch a bunch of losers racing across America is anyone's guess.

Our entrants are... A man with a short tongue - Wow! How cool is he?; An English girl who brags about how many cars she has written off; and more anoraks than have ever been seen outside of a Babylon 5 convention. There are also a number of F-list celebrities tagging along for the ride (no pun intended) but as we are never told who they are I only spotted Tony Hawk, Jodie Kidd and the hard to miss Cuban Brothers.

There was one guy who I thought was a real nutter, until it was revealed that he was actually sticking, for the most part, to the speed limit at every leg of the journey. That way, he never got pulled over for speeding, and actually managed to hit the most checkpoints first.

Laugh yourself stupid at the audacity of contestants who are moaning that the police have pulled them over five times on a single day... er... how about not breaking the law if you don't want to get a ticket.

As a documentary on tossers, this is fantastic. However, as it has been produced to glorify a bunch of rich people who like putting their, and other people's, lives at risk, I really can not say that this is anything other than pathetic. Every one of the contestants who moaned that they were given speeding tickets should be forced to watch footage of car crash victims (a common practice in the UK for those convicted of reckless driving).

This DVD glorifies illegal racing and, in a time when there are way too many arseholes on our roads, the last thing we need to do is encourage more.

Nick Smithson

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