Grimsby / The Brothers Grimsby

[up_the_hampipe]

This is the clip the audience were watching on the Jimmy Kimmel and Jonathan Ross shows. 

I just watched those chat show clips. I have to say, as stupid as the scene sounds, that's a really great promotional tactic. I'm sure there was a huge spike in views for "2 Girls 1 Cup" when those reaction videos made the rounds. But this is a film, so it made me want to see it in a cinema to be in that environment. Seeing the Inbetweeners films at the cinema was a great experience mainly because of everyone losing their minds over the gross-out gags.

[An tSaoi]

Which was a load of set up shite too. I mean.. he couldn't even be arsed to spend a month to learn to do two chords on a guitar, so it's literally just him standing there holding a guitar miming to a tape playing, so all the 'audience' there would have known the entire thing was staged setting to fuck all that up, completely artificial

I nowt about about music, so fair play for adding flames to the fire of my irritation with the man.

[newbridge]

This is the clip the audience were watching on the Jimmy Kimmel and Jonathan Ross shows. 
Desperate stuff.

Come on, that is funny as far as gross-out stuff goes.

I like SBC, though Bruno was garbage and I didn't even bother with The Dictator.

[up_the_hampipe]

I like SBC, though Bruno was garbage and I didn't even bother with The Dictator.

Huh, I enjoyed Bruno more than Borat. It was way more over the top and dangerous.

[Steven]

I nowt about about music, so fair play for adding flames to the fire of my irritation with the man.

It's been such a long time since I'd seen it, I got it slightly wrong which someone put me right about, it's not a taped recording but the point still stands. Borat is meant to be some naive Eastern European character (nicked wholesale from Andy Kaufman) and going up and pretending to do a song he has written in deeply right-wing Texas where they are meant to cringe at how awful his act is before actually getting onside (nicked wholesale from Andy Kaufman) through his antisemitic message (Kaufman's character instead went from terrible material to a spot-on Elvis impersonation) and start clapping and cheering along, but the joke's obviously meant to be on them as Sacha is Jewish.

However instead of getting up and playing a song on his guitar he just holds a guitar and doesn't even pretend he's playing it and has another guy over at the side playing the chords for him making the entire thing look contrived, especially to the live audience watching.. why would this naive foreigner be dragging round his own band members, especially as he's just meant to be some lamb to the wolves who gets up at an open-mic at random and not a guy with a film crew and bandmates and an extra guitar for fuck all reason? He could have learned a couple of chords in a month so I saw it as a bit lazy. Fuck knows the context of how they contrived all that off-camera, though.

[up_the_hampipe]

Cohen is on WTF with Marc Maron today. Should be an interesting interview regardless of how this movie looks http://www.wtfpod.com/

[madhair60]

Is it true that they go up an elephant's cunt and then get cum all over by another elephant?  Because I can't imagine anything funnier.

[checkoutgirl]

I nowt about about music, so fair play for adding flames to the fire of my irritation with the man.

That is a terribly constructed sentence. 1/10.

[madhair60]

Seriously can someone answer me - do they go up an elephant's twat?  Do you see everything?  And a spunking elephant cock?  Thanks.

[up_the_hampipe]

Seriously can someone answer me - do they go up an elephant's twat?  Do you see everything?  And a spunking elephant cock?  Thanks.

You'll have to watch it to find out. It hits cinemas this Wednesday.

[checkoutgirl]

Come on, that is funny as far as gross-out stuff goes.

What do you mean? Have you see the scene?

Personally I'd love to see it just to see what the fuss is about. I wouldn't pay for the privilege though. Maybe pissed if there was nothing better to watch.

Christ that is good marketing.

Still it feels like Baron Cohen is scraping lower and lower into the barrel and is leaving himself nowhere to go other than maybe Wayans brothers type shite films. I think Baron Cohen has sort of come to the end of this cycle in his career. By which I mean him devising a comedy character and then playing this character in a feature film. Is there anything stopping him just being an actor or something like that? He could probably do that if he wanted to. It worked out okay for Paul Kaye.

[Dr Funke]

Reviews are coming in. This one has raised my interest a little...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/grimsby/review/

[biggytitbo]

I'm sure this will be funnier than it sounds when explained by the mirror - http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/daniel-radcliffe-gets-aids-grimsby-7420429

[DukeDeMondo]

Reviews are coming in. This one has raised my interest a little...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/grimsby/review/

Yes, that has sold it for me. Robbie Collin is rarely wrong about anything, and three says in particular there have done it:

"His children have names like Django Unchained and Skeletor." Right that's funny.

"But the script, by Baron Cohen, Phil Johnston and Peter Baynham, keeps punching in the right direction – that's upwards – with a violence and determination that would make Tyson Fury flinch. Grimsby's jokes aren't at the expense of Nobby, but the people who imagine he really exists."

"A vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters."

I'm in. Total 180 from me for you there.

[newbridge]

What do you mean? Have you see the scene?

No, the the concept is funny in a puerile way and probably would be funnier coming out of nowhere in a movie.

It's possible the trailers are so awful because there wasn't anything that could make it in a trailer.

[Kelvin]

It's possible the trailers are so awful because there wasn't anything that could make it in a trailer.

It makes a nice change for a comedy film to put all the worst jokes in the trailer.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

The premiere looked interesting, with Sacha in character.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3458885/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-ditches-trousers-attends-Grimsby-premiere-wife-Isla-Fisher-surrounded-scantily-clad-women.html

[Puce Moment]

Yes, that has sold it for me. Robbie Collin is rarely wrong about anything, and three says in particular there have done it:

"His children have names like Django Unchained and Skeletor." Right that's funny.

"But the script, by Baron Cohen, Phil Johnston and Peter Baynham, keeps punching in the right direction – that's upwards – with a violence and determination that would make Tyson Fury flinch. Grimsby's jokes aren't at the expense of Nobby, but the people who imagine he really exists."

"A vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters."

I'm in. Total 180 from me for you there.

Oh shit. Oh no. That's a compelling case.

[madhair60]

No, though, I need to know.  Right up it?  Like they climb right up in there?  I need to know, it's important.  I'm not going unless I get stone cold confirmation that they go right up it.

[Head Gardener]

4 stars? that's it, I'm going tonight!

[MuteBanana]

Is there anything stopping him just being an actor or something like that? He could probably do that if he wanted to. It worked out okay for Paul Kaye.

And Kayvan Novak.

The premiere looked interesting, with Sacha in character.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3458885/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-ditches-trousers-attends-Grimsby-premiere-wife-Isla-Fisher-surrounded-scantily-clad-women.html

I'm giggling at those kids with takeaway boxes and cans of Carling stood with him. He's played a blinder with this publicity. I'll have to watch it now.

[Head Gardener]

I dunno if I actually enjoyed this last night, it's like watching an Man Utd match in that for long periods nothing really happens
then there are a few ooh and ahhs with the occassional woah! with some folks crying with laughter during some of the really silly bits.
If the sight of

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an erect elephant penis being pushed into a guys face and then splurting cum all over his face

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might be of interest,
then this could be the movie for you! It's

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better than Bruno & The Dictator

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and easily passes the

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Kermode 6 laughs test

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so yeah,
one thumb up then.

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

Oof.



Empire didn't like it.

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/grimsby/review/

[Custard]

^ Now I'm in too!

[Crabwalk]

Yeah, that's pretty much sealed it for me too; I'm in. A mix of very positive and very negative reviews is usually a good sign for a modern comedy. And those premiere pics alone had me chortling. Waving a gun around in his pants and slippers while being fed chips and getting kids to give the finger? I'm certainly not above finding that funny.

[Crabwalk]

From Empire:

The film is xenophobic and racist, revives AIDS as a joke, and is the most horrible thing to happen to elephants since White Hunter Black Heart.

TWO TICKETS PLEASE!

[up_the_hampipe]

Yeah, that's pretty much sealed it for me too; I'm in. A mix of very positive and very negative reviews is usually a good sign for a modern comedy.

Yeah, I feel like I won't consider it a 'good' film but I will get a sick thrill out of seeing just how brazenly offensive it is. I don't think the reviewers understand by calling it disgusting and offensive, they are really selling the film.

[thecuriousorange]

You're not interested in Mike Myers' Keith Moon film?

Is the Tom Hardy Elton John one happening at least?

[Puce Moment]

Oof.



Empire didn't like it.

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/grimsby/review/

Well that's that then. And Sunday afternoon is now sorted. I cannot believe I am going to go and see this but Collin's review and Empire's dismissal make it a must-see.

[Glebe]

Looks like shit for cunts.

Yeah, saw the trailer last time I went to the flicks. I'm sure there are a reasonable clutch of chuckles, but I'm not buying it.

The Ali G film was a load of shite, the Borat film had lots of laugh on the first viewing and none on the second, and Bruno was a bit of a damp squib.

Borat is genuinely funny, Bruno was a let down, despite some very funny moments. Still haven't seen Ali G in the House (or The Dictator, for that matter. That helicopter scene is amusing enough, despite being a bit obvious and that.).

The

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Cosby

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gag in this, fucking hell http://youtu.be/I74xdlP9Gvw

Yeah, poster up on lots of bus stops now, featuring Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe, yet she's not credited. Meanwhile, Baron Cohen makes an Oscars race row gag at the Baftas.

Ha ha, he misread Therapist as The rapist! That's a new joke I've never seen done before!

Yes, brilliant!

Rebel Wilson's bad Northern accent is clearly being played for laughs, right? Ooh look - Johnny Vegas and John Thomson!