Not only does the humor fall flat and register as transparently gross-out based, but the plot is so loosely constructed that its only purpose is to propel the bawdy jokes.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 18, 2022

The broad, adolescent-minded comedy pales in comparison to other, similarly themed recent fare.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 30, 2020

You will not be chin-scratching while watching this in the manner of someone reviewing a lost black and white epic from 1928. The only things being scratched anywhere near this filth will be someone's slightly grubby Y-fronts. And yet, and yet...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

Just expect to feel dirty, guilty and offended afterwards, and you'll have a great time with Grimsby.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

In bad taste barely begins to describe some of the scenes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

What Baron Cohen has added to film comedy in the last decade is not insignificant, but it seems that the joke is reaching its end, but without a good punch line in sight.

| Jan 11, 2018

The Brothers Grimsby contains some of the most lowbrow humor imaginable, and it's usually outrageous fun

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2017

The shaming truth is that I was amused; so amused that on several occasions I had to wipe tears of laughter from my eyes. The fact that I knew deep down that I really shouldn't be laughing at all just made it funnier.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2017

At only 82 minutes, it's hard not to wonder whether something went desperately wrong behind the scenes or in the editing suite.

| Original Score: Not Recommended | Apr 1, 2017

Delivering neither on engrossing action or effective satire, this mess is Cohen's worst film to date.

| Feb 18, 2017

A wild, scatological slalom from the grimmer parts of northeast England to the plains of South Africa.

| Dec 18, 2016

Hurting Grimsby most is its misuse of Rebel Wilson, Isla Fischer, Penelope Cruz, Barkhad Abdi, and Gabourey Sibide in broad bit parts that strictly connect one segment to another.

| Nov 29, 2016

A rambunctiously uncouth satire that's as disgusting as it is riotous.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2016

The attempts at satire fall flat despite some broad targets, and the result produces more groans than laughs.

| Aug 5, 2016

Even at less than 80 minutes sans end credits, "The Brothers Grimsby" is about as pleasant as elephant semen to the face.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jul 2, 2016

It brings to mind such one-star atrocities as The Love Guru, Freddy Got Fingered, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie -- comparisons that make this new picture a Chernobyl of comedy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 25, 2016

It's taboo, it's politically incorrect, it's disrespectful and all with a love for the buttons it's pushing. They had me at the Daniel Radcliffe joke.

| Jun 21, 2016

A couple of funny scenes, but it's amazing how quickly Sasha Baron Cohen's comedy has grown safe and stale.

| Original Score: C | May 26, 2016

Some of this is funny. A fair amount of it -- including the toilet joke -- isn't.

| Apr 25, 2016

It's extreme for its own sake, and too rarely for the satirical purposes of Baron Cohen's better vehicles, "Borat" and "Bruno."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2016