The Brothers Grimsby

A rambunctiously uncouth satire that's as disgusting as it is riotous.

A couple of funny scenes, but it's amazing how quickly Sasha Baron Cohen's comedy has grown safe and stale.

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.

This is Baron Cohen's worst film, period.

The joke at the heart of Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy The Brothers Grimsby [is] an enjoyable one, even when the film as a whole weaves between being just hilariously foul and incoherently sloppy.

Mostly, The Brothers Grimsby simply wants to make you laugh. And it will.

Not only does the humor fall flat and register as transparently gross-out based, but the plot is so loosely constructed that its only purpose is to propel the bawdy jokes.

The broad, adolescent-minded comedy pales in comparison to other, similarly themed recent fare.

You will not be chin-scratching while watching this in the manner of someone reviewing a lost black and white epic from 1928. The only things being scratched anywhere near this filth will be someone's slightly grubby Y-fronts. And yet, and yet...

Just expect to feel dirty, guilty and offended afterwards, and you'll have a great time with Grimsby.