A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen in promoting the movie, SBC said of the English town of Grimsby: "Grimsby is a lovely town in the North of England, which is twinned with the city of Chernobyl. I'm very proud of it - it was recently declared number three in the whole of Europe for childhood obesity and we just became the first town in England to achieve 100 per cent unemployment. Grimsby's a friendly place, where the little things that strangers say matter a lot. Like a 'please', a 'thank you', a 'not guilty'."
- GoofsWhen Nobby and Seb were taking a bath, the water level kept changing between camera shots.
- Quotes
Sebastian Graves: Trust you? Trust you? Because of you, the head of the World Health Organisation is dead and Harry Potter has AIDS. You managed to do in three seconds what Voldemort failed to do in eight movies!
- Crazy creditsContains both a mid-credit and post-credit scene.
- Alternate versionsThe British theatrical release reduced the amount of "crude humour" in order to obtain a 15 rating.
- ConnectionsFeatured in La otra película: Agente Contrainteligente (2016)
Featured review
Sardonic witticisms, vulgar one-liners, and some scenes that go on too long.
I wanted to like this movie more than it actually turned out I did. Not by much, mind you, it scarcely looked like Oscar material to start with. But a couple of the jokes went past the point of humorous implications that made me laugh to the point of crass displays that made me cringe.
Despite this, however, I found myself laughing heartily more often than not, particularly at the shock/slapstick gags which proliferate throughout the movie. I wasn't quite laughing to the point of tears, but I did become self conscious of the neighbors on account of how much noise I made on more than one occasion.
I was surprised to see some of the celebrity clout cast in this comedy, but not unpleasantly so. Mark Strong shines, in particular, when you think of how many "better" scripts were likely on his radar when he chose to do this. He never seems to be phoning it in, even though this is a movie where he could easily get away with it. Cohen, the master of ethnic ambiguity, is his usual chameleon-goofball, this time as a football hooligan, to hilarious effect.
This comes recommended for the not-easily-offended, but it wasn't one you need to see on the big screen.
Despite this, however, I found myself laughing heartily more often than not, particularly at the shock/slapstick gags which proliferate throughout the movie. I wasn't quite laughing to the point of tears, but I did become self conscious of the neighbors on account of how much noise I made on more than one occasion.
I was surprised to see some of the celebrity clout cast in this comedy, but not unpleasantly so. Mark Strong shines, in particular, when you think of how many "better" scripts were likely on his radar when he chose to do this. He never seems to be phoning it in, even though this is a movie where he could easily get away with it. Cohen, the master of ethnic ambiguity, is his usual chameleon-goofball, this time as a football hooligan, to hilarious effect.
This comes recommended for the not-easily-offended, but it wasn't one you need to see on the big screen.
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- Mar 22, 2018
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Brothers Grimsby
- Filming locations
- Cape Town, South Africa(South Africa, Santiago, Chile)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,874,837
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,258,327
- Mar 13, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $27,979,040
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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