The Brothers Grimsby Reviews
A rambunctiously uncouth satire that's as disgusting as it is riotous.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 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
Cohen, brilliant in his craftier and more avant-garde shock-humor roles, is too irritating to make this character likable, much less lovable as the story demands.
| Mar 17, 2016
This is Baron Cohen's worst film, period.
| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Mar 17, 2016
The joke at the heart of Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy The Brothers Grimsby [is] an enjoyable one, even when the film as a whole weaves between being just hilariously foul and incoherently sloppy.
| Mar 17, 2016
Mostly, The Brothers Grimsby simply wants to make you laugh. And it will.
| Mar 15, 2016
Cohen's willingness to do, or say, anything in order to elicit a chuckle at least somewhat salvages "The Brothers Grimsby."
| Original Score: C+ | Mar 12, 2016
His obsession with anal cavities and what goes in and comes out of them suggest Cohen is auditioning to be the after-dinner amusement at a proctologists' convention.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 12, 2016
There's a bizarre, obsessive fixation on bodily fluids (in the gallons) and orifices (for spelunking). The problem is that the writers overly rely on these taboo, gross-out displays to provide laughs, instead of, you know, actual jokes.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 11, 2016
This is Cohen's film and he delivers his share of healthy, guilty laughs. Just not his usual share, or with his usual flair.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2016
It's one of those movies that's barely a movie; scenes don't follow any discernable logic, the action is incoherent when it's not deliberately inane, and so on.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 11, 2016
It's not unfunny in spots, but it huffs and puffs (among other bodily functions) more often than it splits the sides.
| Mar 10, 2016
God help me, I laughed.
| Original Score: B+ | Mar 10, 2016
The Brothers Grimsby doesn't do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as a scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2016
Some of the gags are uproariously funny, albeit disgusting. Others are sub-export quality, a few just plain dumb. That's one of Baron Cohen's weaknesses - quality control.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2016
Grimsby's balls - actual balls - broke my dignity.
| Original Score: C+ | Mar 10, 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy brings the raunch - but the sharp satire is M.I.A.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2016
Vulgar, violent, and vaguely offensive - and those are its good qualities.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 10, 2016
While there may be comedy gold in an elephant's vagina, Mr. Cohen fails to find it here.
| Mar 10, 2016
If your only desire as a moviegoer is to feel something, anything, then Cohen's nearly-hostile intentness on being stickier, smellier, and crasser than anyone else in wide release might get your blood pumping.
| Mar 10, 2016