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Grimsby

2016 Directed by Louis Leterrier

Behind every hero is an embarrassing sibling

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

Sacha Baron Cohen Mark Strong Isla Fisher Rebel Wilson Penélope Cruz Ian McShane Annabelle Wallis Scott Adkins Gabourey Sidibe David Harewood Sam Hazeldine Tamsin Egerton Johnny Vegas Alex Lanipekun Eileen Davies Rory Keenan Zak Sutcliffe Nick Boraine Lex Shrapnel John Thomson Ricky Tomlinson Barkhad Abdi Peter Baynham Rebecca Front Miles Jupp Sam Redford

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Review by Buddy O ★★★★

Holy fuck I couldn't stop laughing.

Between the HIV Harry Potter jokes and elephant semen it kept me entertained throughout.
Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 4

a return to the glory days of gross-out comedy. a lot falls flat, but the poop / elephant combo is the formative stuff of legend. my youth had jim carrey climbing out of a rhino's ass. today's kids have... well, no spoilers, but you wouldn't believe me if i told you.

anyway, here's my interview with Sacha Baron Cohen
Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 4

55/100

The Ace Ventura spy spinoff we never received. Has an all-time comedy shock moment within its runtime, but there's a lot of fun to be had here overall.
Review by Matt Singer ★★★

I laughed so hard at this, and I feel so terrible about it.

(Full review at ScreenCrush.)
Review by Jaime Rebanal ★ 9

It's been a long while since a movie actually managed to make me physically sick, but Grimsby (known as The Brothers Grimsby in some areas) succeeded in doing so. At its best, Grimsby is a rather boring film, but at its very worst, the lowbrow humour is enough to put off a viewer like myself not only as it was utterly stupid, but the imagery was absolutely disgusting and it's the sort of crassness that leaves me madder as the film keeps going on. Even at only 82 minutes, Grimsby's display of poor taste is enough to leave one angered at all of its pointlessness, it's embarrassing.

Sacha Baron Cohen is a man whose comedy I can find entertaining when…
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 4

45/100

Las Vegas Weekly review. Didn't laugh at the outrageous genitalia humor, but did laugh at Mark Strong maintaining his stonily serious expression throughout all of the outrageous genitalia humor, as if he's genuinely in a shitty Bond ripoff.

Recent reviews

Review by Max Feyerabend ★★★½

"Because of you, the head of the World Health Organisation is dead and Harry Potter has AIDS. You managed to do in three seconds what Voldemort failed to do in eight movies!"

Absolutely hilarious.
Review by zdravkelja ★★★

Crazy. And much better this time, when I watched it with equally crazy friends.
Review by G.S. Pallas ★★★

"Nobby, I've been hit somewhere else."

This was obviously conceived out of ideas for several scenes and a lot of ad-libbing rather than a well deliberated script, but it still had me laughing more consistently than any movie last year besides Hardcore Henry. It kind of suffers from over-explaining jokes for dumb moviegoers, e.g. the Radcliffe gag, which was hilarious until the newscaster narrated what just happened.
Review by Nick

I am a Sacha Baron Cohen apologist. Borat and Bruno will always be his best, most cohesive and engaging films which is mostly thanks to Cohen’s anonymity. The Dictator was a bit on the line for me. There are some funnier moments in the film, but I found it harder to connect to the character and there was more of a push for content for the sake of shock value which I couldn’t enjoy. The Brothers Grimsby is embarrassing. There were no redeeming moments that retroactively made me appreciate the film. Instead there were only some of the most awkward and uncomfortable scenes I’ve ever witnessed. Scenes that could only be compared to the worst “Scary Movie” scenes you can…
Review by Chicks ★★★½

Stupid, fucking hilarious bad taste comedy.
Review by Boernz ★★★

Was ein Schwachsinn! Tiefer unter die Gürtellinie geht es vermutlich nicht, Stichwort Elefanten Bukkake... Sasha Baron Cohen setzt mal wieder Benchmarks in Sachen Geschmacklosigkeit. Und leider ist es einfach so blöd, das es schon wieder witzig ist, zumindest hin und wieder. Der Film ist zum Glück sehr kurzweilig, kann man gut mal runtergucken.
Review by Jack Travis

It's easily the least racist, homophobic, sexist and infantile work Mark Millar's done yet!
Review by Seththecinefile ★★

that elephant scene is how this get's two stars.
Review by GoodBadAndOdd ★★★½

Pretty fun and extremely tasteless comedy-actioner that comes across as a mix of Shameless, Dumb and Dumber and Kingsmen.

Mark Strong makes a credible badass of the first order, and there's some surprising poignancy and emotion about family and self-identify between the graphic sex jokes and elephant dicks.