Hello All,
It’s nearing the end of the week before March Break here, so I will be quite busy during that week. With that in mind, I decided today to try and knock out one of the two anticipated films: Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Brothers Grimsby.” It basically came down to a coin flip between that and 10 Cloverfield Lane. Having now seen the film I can safely say that I’m glad I got it out of the way now, because hopefully seeing 10 Cloverfield Lane will help me forget most of what I saw in this movie. Yeah, that coin flip really didn’t work out in my favor today. Why? Let’s find out together shall we?
Plot Summary - “Nobby” Butcher (Sacha Baron Cohen) is an English football hooligan from a small town called Grimsby, who's been looking for his little brother for 28 years. When the two are reunited however, his brother Sebastian (Mark Strong) is now MI6’s top agent. When the surprise reunion between the two of them ends up with Sebastian being hunted down as a traitor, the must find the real villains, stop the plot, and reunite as family.
Pros - As a comedy film, there are quite a few funny scenes in the film that poke some real fun as goofy spy moments. As a spy film, there’s a few cool action and chase scenes, and even an unexpected plot twist.
Cons -Mark being the straight man to Sacha’s antics doesn’t feel like two brothers reuniting, it feels like a bad abbott and costello routine most of the time. It’s not that they’re bad, it’s just it’s mostly just painfully unfunny. The rest of the cast is basically wasted, as the film devolves into a lot of gross out comedy. When I say gross out, I mean GROSS AS A MOTHERFUCKER! I’m just going to tell you a thing that happens in the movie straight up.
The two men have to crawl inside a female elephant, who starts getting fucked by all the male elephants in the herd.
It’s going to take me a lot of booze to wipe that image from my head anytime soon. There’s also scenes in this film that are straight up predictable in terms of both the comedy and the spy stuff. They even end up reusing entire routines from earlier in the movie later on, and they’re mostly not funny. While the spy plot has some interesting moments, the rest of it feel like checklist moments to make fun of that’s been done better in much better movies than this one.
Final Score - 3/10
The few scenes that work are not worth sitting through the rest of it. If you’re a Cohan fan, go nuts. Everyone else, it’s at your own parel.
Next: 10 Cloverfield Lane - It’s looks good. Hated Cloverfield though.
Not going to lie, I was pretty bummed out when I started writing this, then I saw this trailer http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/watch-spider-man-debuts-in-captain-america-civil-war-trailer/ and suddenly my day got a lot better as a spiderman fan. I can’t wait for this movie now.
Until then, I’m going to watch that trailer sixty more times.
Side Note: I’m tinkering with some new ideas, I’ll either talk about it in the next review or do a separate post about them. Keep checking in for that.
I’ll see you folks at the movies.
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