Agent Graives Analysis
From the man who brought you Ali G, Borat, Bruno, and the Dictator; Sasha Baron Cohen brings you Nobby.
Grimsby is a balls out - quite literally, elephant ‘bukka’ party- a scene in the movie which is worth the admission alone- kind of comedy.
Nobby Butcher is an avid English football supporter who lives in the fishing town of Grimsby with his ‘well fit bird’ Dawn (Rebel Wilson, Pitch perfect) and their nine children. However there has always been a 28 year void in Nobby’s life and that void is in the shape of his brother Sebastian Butcher/ Agent Graives (Mark Strong, Kingsman: The Secret Service, ).
Agent Graives is MI6’s top agent who is on a mission to stop an assignation attempt on a high profile philanthropist.
Nobby sets off to reunite …show more content…
with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger.
Graives is now the run and in hiding with his dim-witted brother with intermittent humour splashed throughout.
Directed by Louis Leterrier a French film director whose body of work includes the first two Transporter films, Unleashed and The incredible Hulk.
Leterrier now helms an action-comedy that falls flat of getting the right balance of what it wanted to be, moving too quickly through action sequences into comedy sequences to misplaced heartfelt moments. It does open up with cool action piece that thankfully is used more than once, and brings to the fore Leterrier abilities as a capable action movie director, not comedy.
Grimsby like a lot of Sasha Baron Cohen movies is nuanced. There is a didactic message behind the laughs, Borat is not just about a man with a strange accent but about pushing the boundaries of what are considered normal social interactions and turns them on its head. In much the same way Grimsby - a real place in the North-East of England- is another way to see the social traps that some parts of England deal with or don’t deal with. While it is off the shores of Ireland, it is something that we understand.
Nobby the character is something of a full circle for Sasha Baron Cohen as it becomes more difficult for him not to be recognised. Nobby is a character that can’t compete with the satirical brilliance of Ali-G, or push the envelope in the same way as Borat, the character is hit and miss - much like his Northern accent, strange considering how Baron Cohen method acts his way through
Borat.
Not Baron Cohen’s best work in terms of comedy, Nobby will be one of his more forgettable characters.
Grimsby is in theatres now.
Grimsby is a balls out - quite literally, elephant ‘bukka’ party- a scene in the movie which is worth the admission alone- kind of comedy.
Nobby Butcher is an avid English football supporter who lives in the fishing town of Grimsby with his ‘well fit bird’ Dawn (Rebel Wilson, Pitch perfect) and their nine children. However there has always been a 28 year void in Nobby’s life and that void is in the shape of his brother Sebastian Butcher/ Agent Graives (Mark Strong, Kingsman: The Secret Service, ).
Agent Graives is MI6’s top agent who is on a mission to stop an assignation attempt on a high profile philanthropist.
Nobby sets off to reunite …show more content…
with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger.
Graives is now the run and in hiding with his dim-witted brother with intermittent humour splashed throughout.
Directed by Louis Leterrier a French film director whose body of work includes the first two Transporter films, Unleashed and The incredible Hulk.
Leterrier now helms an action-comedy that falls flat of getting the right balance of what it wanted to be, moving too quickly through action sequences into comedy sequences to misplaced heartfelt moments. It does open up with cool action piece that thankfully is used more than once, and brings to the fore Leterrier abilities as a capable action movie director, not comedy.
Grimsby like a lot of Sasha Baron Cohen movies is nuanced. There is a didactic message behind the laughs, Borat is not just about a man with a strange accent but about pushing the boundaries of what are considered normal social interactions and turns them on its head. In much the same way Grimsby - a real place in the North-East of England- is another way to see the social traps that some parts of England deal with or don’t deal with. While it is off the shores of Ireland, it is something that we understand.
Nobby the character is something of a full circle for Sasha Baron Cohen as it becomes more difficult for him not to be recognised. Nobby is a character that can’t compete with the satirical brilliance of Ali-G, or push the envelope in the same way as Borat, the character is hit and miss - much like his Northern accent, strange considering how Baron Cohen method acts his way through
Borat.
Not Baron Cohen’s best work in terms of comedy, Nobby will be one of his more forgettable characters.
Grimsby is in theatres now.