Sacha Baron Cohen
- 53 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, producer, executive producer and comedian
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Grimsby: 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 2016Review: Grimsby
Bad taste spy spoof from writer-star Sacha Baron Cohen, with Mark Strong.
Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 25th February 2016Sacha Baron Cohen says FBI kept a file on him
Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed that the FBI showed an interest in him and his team during the filming of the movie Borat, and went as far as to go looking for him in his hotel.
James Hendicott, NME, 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 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 2016Sacha Baron Cohen: I'm 23% gay
Sacha Baron Cohen reckons he is 23 per cent gay, despite being married with three kids to Hollywood actress Isla Fisher. And the star, who also created camp fashionista Bruno, thinks all men have homosexual leanings.
Ally Farrell, The Sun, 25th February 2016Northerners shouldn't be angry at Grimsby
Why Sacha Baron Cohen's crass working class stereotypes are just the latest assault in the south's war on the north of England.
Rose George, The Telegraph, 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 2016