“Grimsby” (also known as “The Brothers Grimsby”) is another shocking comedy from the sick and twisted mind of Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Dictator”, “Brüno”). This was an odd watch for me because Grimsby is actually my hometown. This movie was not actually filmed in Grimsby as the locals knew Baron Cohen would not be glamorising the town.

Nobby (Baron Cohen) is a drunk and unemployable idiot that obsesses about football. He lives in the fishing port of Grimsby and dreams of being reunited with his younger brother, Sebastian (Mark Strong “Shazam!”, “Zero Dark Thirty”). The two were separated as kids when Sebastian was adopted, now he’s a secret agent trying to thwart a plot that threatens the globe. Nobby manages to find Sebastian and the two must somehow work together to save the day.

The Nobby character is clearly meant to look like Oasis’ Liam Gallagher. The character is not especially funny and I was particularly horrified at the multiple occasions where he sticks a firework up his backside. Mark Strong’s character is not particularly funny either. The two of them have no real chemistry and there is a horrendous moment where Nobby is forced to extract a poison from the privates of Sebastian. Some fairly big names including Isla Fisher (“Wedding Crashers”) and Ian McShane (“John Wick”) appear. Scott Adkins (“Ninja”) gets to show off a few impressive moves during a fight scene. Johnny Vegas (“Early Man”) and a few other faces that will only be recognised by British audiences also appear.

Parts of this movie are genuinely really funny but as the movie goes along, it becomes more and more depraved. A woman gets smashed in the face by a child using a snooker ball inside a condom, two men hide inside a female elephant and get sprayed with a substance from male elephants and celebrities get infected with H.I.V. from blood spurting out of a half-Jewish/half-Palestinian child peace activist. It’s got its moments but it also has too many horrible sights.