‎Grimsby (2016) directed by Louis Leterrier • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

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

83 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

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 Connor Auchterlonie ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Quite possibly the dumbest and most vile shit I've ever watched but, like, in a good way? They give Donald Trump AIDS I mean that's gotta be worth something.
Review by Dave Jackson ★★★

Not gonna lie. I laughed a lot at the elephant bukkake scene. I felt guilty. But I laughed. A lot.
Review by Cris

¿Por qué he visto esto?
Review by Sian ★★½

what the fuck did i just watch
Review by treezy ocean ★★★

i feel so disappointed with myself for enjoying this
Review by Neil Bridgeman ★★

Movie#30 #Grimsby Best film involving Elephant jizz...sorry Freddy Got Fingered #summerof50films
Review by Michael Stephenson ★★★

There are a few things to address. Firstly, I don't think this was anti-working class at all. It's a massive film (and a comedy film) that is naturally going to portray certain groups with a very broad brush. As well as this, Grimsby seems to be poking fun less at the working-class than the people who actually think they behave how they're portrayed in the early part of this film. If anything, the film puts two fingers up the Benefit Street-esque portrayls of the working class we've seen recently.

Unlike most major films, this flies over. It's action scenes are well directed and there are a few genuinley funny set-pieces. One involves an elephant. As well as those not so subtle jokes, there are actually quite a few quite funny visual gags as well.
Review by Matt Donato ★★★

The Brothers Grimsby is offensive, disgusting, ridiculous and as much as I feel dirty admitting it, it's also pretty damn funny.

Full Review: wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-brothers-grimsby-review/
Review by Miles Edwards ★★

The elephant scene is the polar opposite of funny.

I don't buy Sacha Baron Choan as a bloke from Grimsby- despite his pretty good accent.

I chuckled a few times, but ultimately I just don't find this sort of thing funny.

I've been picking my films rather poorly over the last week. I think I'm going to watch a few masterpieces as pallet cleansers.