Grimsby (Louis Leterrier, 2016)

Sacha Baron Cohen turns his attention to satirising action films this time around, under the helmsmanship of an out-and-out action director. The basic set-up is Mark Strong, a super-spy, having a council-estate football yob as a brother, and the rest follows on from there in a very join-the-dots manner as they bond and save the world. More than ever, Baron Cohen has gone down the maximum gross-out line, with scenes such as the pair stuck up an elephant's jacksy while it's pleasured by a stream of male elephants indicative of the level of wit. It's a symptom of the frat-boy comedy era, I suppose, but Baron Cohen is capable of better than this. It simply gets tiresome before long at all.

4/10