Mark Strong
- Actor and executive producer
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Grimsby -- 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 2016Grimsby: gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste (Link expired)
Comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno, Ali G Indahouse) may just have created a whole new genre with his latest film Grimsby, a gross-out action comedy that gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste humour, achieving almost sublimely surreal results in the process.
Matthew Turner, WOW247, 25th February 2016Grimsby review
For one of the most creative, resourceful comedic talents this nation has ever produced, pushing the boundaries with outrageous, barbed, and yet such intelligent satire, to see Sacha Baron Cohen present a spy movie spoof as his latest endeavour feels like all too easy territory for such an innovative mind. Grimsby is, however, recognisably shocking, and there does remain a pointed satirical undercurrent, but this revels far more predominantly in the former, not nearly as clever a piece as his previous offerings. But it goes so far in the direction of irreverence, that any attempt to be profound would be distinctly counter-productive.
Stefan Pipe, Hey U Guys, 24th February 2016Grimsby: Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous balls-fest
Can the brains behind Borat deliver more shocks up North?
Ben Rawson-Jones, Digital Spy, 23rd February 2016Review: Grimsby
The British actor shifts into spoof mode with this knockoff of spy movies. Has he gone soft?
Demetrios Matheou, IndieWire, 23rd February 2016Grimsby review
Did Mark Strong lose a bet with Sacha Baron Cohen? His character is so demeaned, degraded and humiliated in new film Grimsby that one wonders if Strong owed the comedy star and paid him back by allowing a variety of bodily fluids to be sprayed on his person.
Chris Tilly, IGN Movies, 23rd February 2016Grimsby review
Bad taste can be hilarious, shaking a laugh from even the most reserved, and opening minds to new worlds. But there are also tastes so bad they just make you retch. That's Grimsby, a feature-length version of gross-out joke The Aristocrats that puts all its emphasis on shock and none on genuine provocation.
Helen O'Hara, Empire, 23rd February 2016Grimsby review
Sacha Baron Cohen's exceedingly silly, incorrigibly lewd, intermittently hilarious new film is being released in the US as The Brothers Grimsby.
Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 23rd February 2016Grimsby review: impossible not to hate it
As a film watcher I can be very critical and forthright with my opinions, but there are very few films that get to me in such a way I'd actually say I hate them. Oh, there are movies that are completely boring from start to finish, movies that miss the mark to such an extent it's impossible to not get unbridledly annoyed by them and movies that are so incompetently made that they barely even qualify as a movie. But there are only really a handful of films I would say that I actively hate. Grimsby is one of them.
Alex Leadbetter, What Culture!, 23rd February 2016