Grimsby - Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong plumb gross-out depths as chalk-and-cheese long-lost brothers in this resolutely low-brow spy caper.
Separated as kids, Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong’s long-lost siblings – one a feckless Northern yob, the other an ultra-suave black-ops agent for MI6 – reunite to foil a global terrorist plot in resolutely lowbrow spy comedy Grimsby (originally The Brothers Grimsby).
Much of the film sees Baron Cohen striving to out-gross the grossest of gross-out comedies, with the eye-wincing sequence in which the pair fall foul of some copulating elephants in South Africa plumbing new depths for the genre.
The throwaway gags in between these laboured set pieces are much more successful, raising a smile rather than a grimace. The spy stuff is pretty feeble, though, and co-stars Rebel Wilson and Penelope Cruz are utterly wasted.
Certificate 18. Runtime 83 mins. Director Louis Leterrier
Grimsby is available on Digital HD and is released on Blu-ray & DVD, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Blu-ray & Digital Extras:
- Two Featurettes: “The Making of Grimsby” “The Elephant in the Room”
- Line-O-Rama: Hilarious Outtakes
- Blooper Reel
- Deleted & Extended Scenes
DVD Extras:
- “The Making of Grimsby” Featurette
- Line-O-Rama: Hilarious Outtakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3By6n8CI8
