The Brothers Grimsby
Much of my family is from Grimsby, and I have to say that the representation of Grimsby in Louis Leterrier’s film of the same name is wholly inaccurate, the real life Grimsby is much, much worse. I jest of course as I’ve always enjoyed my trips to Grimsby and whilst it has featured in several episodes of Traffic Cops and has unemployment issues, there are parts of Grimsby and Cleethopes (which is pretty much Grimsby) that are quite nice.
The film’s title (and incidentally town) has the word the ‘grim’ in it and I have to admit there are certain scenes in the film that are pretty grim, such as the elephant scene which, quite frankly, is one of the grossest things I have ever seen. If you are accustomed to the humour of Sasha Baron Cohen then you’d probably get what you expected, humour in a gross, rude nature. It’s send up of working class stereotypes are quite amusing and the relationship between the two brothers (played by Cohen and Mark Strong) has a touch of poignancy but it does overplay it’s cards regarding the gross gags. Still, I enjoyed the film partly because I have a close connection to the town of Grimsby, despite the film getting the accent, name of the football club and pretty much everything about the town wrong (except it is actually famous for cod).
