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Top gear has never been the same since Clarkson and co left. It just hasn't. And since I didn't want to pay for Amazon I never got to see their new show. I didn't get to see this either.

However, peer pressure got to me as everyone I know was telling me about Clarkson's Farm, even those who are soft enough to dislike him (mostly the same sort that moan if coffee from a cafe is 0.1° out of their comfort range of if their fast food fries are missing a single grain of salt, so normally the type I would ignore.)

So, I took the opportunity and binge watched both series in one long weekend, and I'm so glad I did. Clarkson and co used to make me laugh on topgear, and I wondered what he would be like on something more serious and without his mates, and I wasn't disappointed. Hammond and May are replaced with a new crew of genuine and natural characters who very quickly become people you'd love to spend an evening with. But what's most important, is that no only can you find yourself laughing so hard your neighbours call round to check you're still breathing, but that you can literally be crying at exactly the same time.

There is a sad side to the show though, other than the naturally sad side of farming such as animals not making it, which is surprisingly harder than expected, even for a meat lover, but the messed up volume of red tape. I'm surprised anyone farms any more, and I'm surprised that council workers and nosy neighbours with more time than compassion can sleep at night. By the end of the show I just expected Clarkson to turn the farm into a playground for monster trucks just to say stuff you to the sad life busybodies.

Overall, well worth more than a score of 10, for the laughs, the tears, and the awakening of how hard the government and councils make it for real people to survive.

Blah blah blah, whine whine whine... It's unrealistic, there's plot holes, why would this or that happen?

Wake up people, it's a fantasy movie about aliens. If all these things that people are whining about happened, then the whole movie would be a bore fest of logic, and pointless. All fantasy would be pointless. So get a grip and lighten up...

Chris Pratt, just as he did as Star Lord, lights up the screen with corny action taking on a horde of aliens. There's a story, it's fairly unique, it moves well enough not to bore and the CGI is spot on. If you're the type of person who enjoys being entertained and you have the ability to enjoy yourself without picking holes in everything around you, you should enjoy this movie.