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The best critic slams of 'The Brothers Grimsby'

Kelly Lawler
USA TODAY
Sacha Baron Cohen (left) and Mark Strong star in 'The Brothers Grimsby.'

Borat it ain't.

Critics are not fans of The Brothers Grimsby, the latest cinematic foray from Sacha Baron Cohen. The movie currently has a low 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. We rounded up the very best slams of the film.

USA TODAY's own Brian Truitt (you can read the full review here):

"At the very least, it's more entertaining than the time Baron Cohen dumped ashes on Ryan Seacrest at the Oscars but only barely."

Variety :

"A smutty but strained spy spoof in which most of the human-based comedy stays comparatively flaccid."

New York Post:

"As a comedy, The Brothers Grimsby is weak and scattershot, but it's useful as an unintended self-indictment of the chattering classes' disgust and disdain for white working folk."

Associated Press:

"Ultimately, the jokes are more stupefying than funny and no one's anatomy is safe from a gratuitous close-up, whether it's that of a wild animal or an Oscar nominee."

Newark Star Ledger :

"Grimsby punches down - at the sick, at the poor, at anyone who's not quick enough to get out of its sloppy roundhouse rights. Boy, chronically unemployed drunks sure are funny, aren't they?"

New York Times:

"While there may be comedy gold in an elephant's vagina, Mr. Cohen fails to find it here."

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