Grimsby / The Brothers Grimsby
2016
***
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Gabourey Sidibe, Annabelle Wallis, David Harewood, John Thomson
The Butcher brothers are reunited after 28 years. While Nobby, a football-obsessed working class dimwit, stayed in Grimsby and fathered about 10 children, Sebastian became a suave globetrotting MI6 agent. Sacha Baron Cohen's buddy comedy is thinly scripted and formulaic, but much funnier than it has any right to be. The jokes remain consistently tasteless, and some of the gags had me in stitches by their sheer outrageousness. Louis Leterrier, the French director behind The Transporter and its first sequel, brings wonderful energy to the action set pieces.
