Not that any of these particulars matter in the slightest, given that “The Brothers Grimsby” employs its plot as merely the staging ground for one juvenile set piece and inappropriate punchline after another, including Nobby’s wife Dawn ( Rebel Wilson) telling Sebastian - who assumes from her size that she’s again with child - “I’m not pregnant, I’m just fucking fat.”ĭirected by Louis Leterrier (“ The Transporter,” “ Now You See Me”) with his usual brand of visually spastic, loud-louder-LOUDER style, almost none of which is employed to actually spoof the spy genre, “The Brothers Grimsby” boasts an offensive in-your-face aesthetic to match its vulgar material. Forced into hiding, the brothers are soon uneasily bonding, with Nobby acting like a jackass and Sebastian grimacing like a stuck-up responsible adult - until, that is, memories of their youth cause him to reassess the awfulness of his brother. Nobby and Sebastian finally meet again when the former ruins the latter’s attempt to protect a famous philanthropist ( Penelope Cruz) from being executed, causing MI6 to think that Sebastian is in fact a bad guy. As revealed through sporadic flashbacks, these polar-opposite siblings were separated during childhood (when they were still likeminded knuckleheads) due to Sebastian being adopted by a wealthy family - a parting that so traumatized Nobby, he’s been searching for Sebastian for the better part of the past three decades. Subtlety is clearly of no interest to Cohen or anyone else involved in this caper, which concerns the unlikely reunion of Sebastian Butcher (Strong), a highly trained MI6 super-agent, and his brother Nobby (Cohen), a working-class English soccer hooligan whose eleven children are named things like “Django Unchained” and “Skeletor,” and who likes nothing more than getting drunk at the local pub and sticking lit firecrackers in his ass. Amazingly, that’s not even the crudest moment in “The Brothers Grimsby” involving ejaculating members, as a later scene finds Cohen and Strong hiding inside an elephant’s cavernous vagina, only to endure a ramrodding phallic assault from a visiting, horny male pachyderm.
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