The Brother’s Grimsby (known internationally as Grimsby) is stupid-funny: unapologetically crude and incredibly vulgar, yet made me laugh the whole time. It’s what you get by mixing James Bond with Borat: an action film with the lowest denominator of hilarious blue comedy. I can’t help but insult the film as I praise it—the humor is just so stupid and immature, yet still really, really funny.
Allow me to give a very vulgar example (if you're squeamish, please skip to the next paragraph). In one scene, the title brothers (played by Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong) race across an African savanna to escape several hitmen. They reach an open field with no cover in sight save for a herd of elephants—nothing vulgar so far right…brace yourselves. To escape, the brothers climb into an elephant’s vagina to hide. When the coast is clear, they try to exit, only to be blocked by a horny bull elephant sticking his massive schwing into the female. Literally cock blocked, the brothers try helping the elephant ejaculate early (since according to the older brother, elephants can mate for over three hours) by stroking and titillating the balls (I’m getting red-faced just writing this), which helps it…you know what, all over the younger brother’s face. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE—turns out there’s a freaking line of elephants waiting to plow (“It’s an elephant bukkake party!”), with one of the bulls ramming right into the older brothers rear.
This. This is the type of humor you’ll be faced with in The Brother’s Grimsby. Take it, or leave it the hell alone because you’re not getting anything else. The film’s stupid, ridiculous and unbelievably raunchy, yet I found it sidesplittingly hilarious (which shows what kind of twisted sense of humor I have). I will say the film does a genuinely touching job regarding the brothers’s backstory and bond (though the film loves to pervert that as well). If you think your taste for humor is as twisted as mine, then by all means give The Brother’s Grimsby a go (but don’t say I didn’t warm you).
