Grimsby: gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste (Link expired)

Comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno, Ali G Indahouse) may just have created a whole new genre with his latest film Grimsby, a gross-out action comedy that gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste humour, achieving almost sublimely surreal results in the process.

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Grimsby review

For one of the most creative, resourceful comedic talents this nation has ever produced, pushing the boundaries with outrageous, barbed, and yet such intelligent satire, to see Sacha Baron Cohen present a spy movie spoof as his latest endeavour feels like all too easy territory for such an innovative mind. Grimsby is, however, recognisably shocking, and there does remain a pointed satirical undercurrent, but this revels far more predominantly in the former, not nearly as clever a piece as his previous offerings. But it goes so far in the direction of irreverence, that any attempt to be profound would be distinctly counter-productive.

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Grimsby review

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Video: Will Baron Cohen go to Oscars as Nobby?

Actress Isla Fisher talks about appearing in her husband's latest film Grimsby and what it is like at home when he comes back in character.

The film sees Baron Cohen play his latest alter-ego Nobby, a hapless, beer drinking football fan who ends up having to save the world.

Fisher told BBC News that she and her husband were heading to the Oscars and that he might attend as 'Nobby'.

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Grimsby review

Did Mark Strong lose a bet with Sacha Baron Cohen? His character is so demeaned, degraded and humiliated in new film Grimsby that one wonders if Strong owed the comedy star and paid him back by allowing a variety of bodily fluids to be sprayed on his person.