The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel.
"Grimsby" punches down - at the sick, at the poor, at anyone who's not quick enough to get out of its sloppy roundhouse rights. Boy, chronically unemployed drunks sure are funny, aren't they?
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
11 Mar 2016
rotten:
His obsession with anal cavities and what goes in and comes out of them suggest Cohen is auditioning to be the after-dinner amusement at a proctologists' convention.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
12 Mar 2016
rotten:
A production that fails in every way at every turn.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
15 Mar 2016
fresh:
Mostly, The Brothers Grimsby simply wants to make you laugh. And it will.
– Bilge Ebiri,
Village Voice,
15 Mar 2016
rotten:
Cohen, brilliant in his craftier and more avant-garde shock-humor roles, is too irritating to make this character likable, much less lovable as the story demands.