Director Louis Leterrier
Staring Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson
Rated MA
Score 3/6

A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.

Okay, full disclosure here I’ve never really been a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen’s since about the time he released his Borat movie and since then I have steered clear of the movies that he has written. I was perfectly prepared to let Grimsby go without my attention until I remembered a joke made Queen guitarist Brian May from right around the time Cohen’s ‘departure’ from the potential Queen bio-pic and so my 10 years of avoiding movies written by Cohen has come to an end.
I really hope that I forget about this one in a hurry, I really do. The only action sequences that a really worth remembering a probably the kind of sequences that you might not want to remember the only explanation as to their inclusion in the movie is what I can only hope was some kind of bet between Cohen and his writing partner for the movie Phil Johnston and the director Louis Leterrier. Sure there were some funny moments (not enough to make you laugh out loud) and there was a moment that I can only described as being an homage to Ace Ventura When Nature Calls and I suppose credit where credits due there should be a bonus point for the creative use of wheelchairs as missiles. However, it wasn’t enough to get me over the fact that I was watching a movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen, I like a good poo joke as much as the next person but part of me was hoping that Cohen might of matured. This didn’t seem to be the case. However, as much as it pains me to admit this Grimsby might not have been a good movie it certainly wasn’t a bad one either.