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Review of The Brothers Grimsby

I watched the trailer for this and seeing Sacha Baron Cohen lets you know that this is going to be a rather gross comedy. The guy doesn't seem to have any boundaries. I wonder how he constantly gets such huge stars to make fools of themselves with him. I have greatly enjoyed every film by Louis Leterrier so it looks like this may be the first time he fails me. If Sacha Baron Cohen has his way with the script like he does here then you can definitely expect some offensive jokes. The crazy thing here is Phil Johnston also wrote Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia. So this is definitely a weird direction for him to take. Peter Baynham has also done a few kids movies like Arthur Christmas and Hotel Transylvania. He has worked on Bruno and Borat though. Anyways I'm not expecting much from this. I just figured I would get it out of the way since it's short. As expected it starts off with some gross humor. The type of comedy is similar to a Seth Rogen film, but it usually takes it much further. A first person view is an interesting way to start the action off. Haha he is so immature and creepy. Wow that was messed up. I kind of figured that was what that was. Ah okay I was wondering if that was actually him or not so had to check. An idiot is a vast understatement lol. Aww there are actually some fairly well done serious and emotional scenes too. I honestly can't really stand Rebel Wilson. That stuff is actually pretty heartbreaking. Okay that's just disgusting! I can't believe Mark Strong agreed to do that scene. All the spy stuff and action scenes are fun to watch. The humor though gets a bit too much at times and comes off as over the top unnecessary. Okay that was actually pretty funny. Oh wow here we go again with the gross out jokes. Well that just took it a bit too far! I think this and the other scene would have been where normal people would have walked out. Good lord that was just wrong. An interesting thing to note about this is that the story is actually really good. Oh my gosh lol. Haha damn nice one! Ah the little messed up jokes here and there haha. Haha yes now that joke was wonderful! Lol are they serious right now? I like how they had to add the little notes at the end haha. He got a bit too trigger happy there. There are a couple scenes during the credits if you stuck through the whole movie. The second one is messed up, but it was still kind of funny. Anyways despite some of the real outrageous jokes it was enjoyable. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this or say it was a great movie though. If it hadn't been lathered with Sacha Baron Cohen type humor it could have been an excellent movie.
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7 years ago on 26 May 2016 21:17

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