Grimsby
- 2016 film
Sacha Baron Cohen comedy about a slick spy and his idiot brother. Stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher, Rebel Wilson, Gabourey Sidibe and more.
Streaming rank this week: 3,059
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Sony reportedly anxious over Donald Trump AIDS scene
Known as The Brothers Grimsby in the States, Sony are nervous ahead of a scene in which the divisive Republican frontrunner contracts HIV.
Contact Music, 4th March 2016Grimsby will make you laugh - and hate yourself for it
Not everything works - the jokes about Aids and children in wheelchairs are hardly fitting as mass crowd-pleasers but Cohen's horrible gift is in getting you laughing along despite yourself and thus losing the right claim moral high ground.
Matt Adcock, Northamptonshire Telegraph, 29th February 2016Review: Grimsby
Sometimes a scene leaves your critical faculties floundering, and so it was in Grimsby as Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong retreated into an elephant's vagina to escape machine-gunning assassins.
Kate Muir, The Times, 26th February 2016Grimsby: most hideous, hilarious movie this year
Sacha Baron Cohen pushes the comedy envelope as far as he can with his latest creation in this rude, crude and utterly outrageous comedy.
Alex Zane, The Sun, 26th February 2016Grimsby movie review
A grim encounter with a former comedy prince.
Chris Wasser, The Independent (Ireland), 26th February 2016Baron Cohen has gone step too far with Grimsby
Cohen's previous work, however brash, had something of a satirical edge, making a point about people's preconceived notions and fears about how others should live their lives. But sadly that witty backbone has been lost in Cohen's foray into silly, vulgar blockbuster territory which takes fat-shaming, xenophobia and class ridicule to new levels. Lewdness is a valid form of comedy but, however bold in may be in its attempt to shock you into laughing, this is a bad taste that's hard to wash out.
Ross Miller, The National (Scotland), 26th February 2016Review: Grimsby
Bad taste spy spoof from writer-star Sacha Baron Cohen, with Mark Strong.
Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 25th February 2016Grimsby feels amateurish & it despises its own audience
What makes Grimsby an especially steep falling-off after Baron Cohen's last three movies is the sense that no one really cared whether it came off or not; the whole enterprise has a "will-this-do?" quality.
Ryan Gilbey, The New Statesman, 25th February 2016Grimsby -- film review: 'Like a terrible accident'
I did laugh once; twice; even two and a half times. The Fifa gag is good. (Shan't spoil.) So is the mid-movie slapstick, gross-out and gonzo, involving Nobby, his brother (Mark Strong) and some copulating elephants. As surprise comic pachyderm packages go -- let's just say it goes. Elsewhere, if you have hair, prepare to tear it now.
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times, 25th February 2016Grimsby review
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comic creation is his most unapologetically grotesque - and least amusing - to date.
David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 25th February 2016