GRIMSBY (aka THE BROTHERS
GRIMSBY)Β (15)
D: Louis Leterrier
Columbia/Village Roadshow/Working Title/Lstar (Sacha Baron
Cohen, Peter Baynham, Ant Hines, Nira Park & Todd Schulman)
UK/USA π¬π§ πΊπΈ 2016
83 mins
Comedy
W: Sacha Baron Cohen, Phil Johnston & Peter
Baynham
DP: Oliver Wood
Ed: Jonathan Amos, Evan Henke & James Thomas
Mus: Erran Baron Cohen & David Buckley
Sacha Baron Cohen (Nobby Butcher), Mark Strong (Sebastian
Graves), Isla Fisher (Jodie Figgs), Rebel Wilson (Dawn Grobham), Penelope Cruz (Rhonda George), Gabourey Sidibe (Banu)
Having made a mockery of Kazakhstan in the 2006 film Borat,
Sacha Baron Cohen turns his attentions to mocking the coastal British town of Grimsby in this lowbrow Bond spoof.
Football hooligan Nobby Butcher (Cohen) discovers his
long-lost brother Sebastian Graves (Mark Strong) is a secret agent for MI6 and the two of them have to foil a terrorism plot during the World Cup football final.
The jokes are largely dick and fart jokes, with some
bestiality thrown in with fat girl humour.
There are a couple of moments which may make you chuckle,
dependant on how puerile your sense of humour, but Cohen's main focus here is to cause shock rather than make jokes.
4/10Β