Two fingers are well and truly shoved up the anus of good taste before wiping them on its face in the latest work from "the man who brought you Borat" and Bruno as well as the director of two Transporter movies, save only to say that . The trailer only glimpses at what is in store, which one might describe as an 80 minute extension of the anal sex joke at the conclusion of last year's Kingsman: The Secret Service, another R-rated action comedy featuring Mark Strong. Here, Strong is upgraded from a Q-type to Agent Sebastian Butcher, brother of Nobby (Sacha Baron Cohen). The film opens with a decent POV action sequence (more of which to come later in the year in Hardcore Harry) before Butcher goes to London to prevent an assassination at a conference for "World Cure", presented by Rhonda George (Penelope Cruz). Both Butcher brothers have not seen each other in thirty years and as soon as Nobby finds Sebastian, things of course go wrong and Sebastian finds himself hiding out in Nobby's hometown of Grimsby (Pitch Perfect's Rebel Wilson - wasted in more ways than one in this year's How To Be Single - cameos as Nobby's partner). Later, the brothers go to South Africa and find themselves having to foil a plot not unlike that seen in Kingsman to decrease the planet's surplus population, culminating in a showdown at a football match. During this, Nobby takes on the role of agent (at one point doing an impression of Sean Connery as Bond before switching to what sounds like an impression of Steve Coogan doing an impression of Sean Connery as Bond) and ultimately becoming an action hero. Over the course of the film, there is perhaps a laugh-out-loud moment about every two minutes or so (on average) and at least two snorts. The barrel is scraped beyond the point of bleeding, splintered fingers with jokes involving ejaculation (of varying degrees), genitalia from both humans and animals of both genders, and wheelchairs as well as touching on leukemia and AIDS (one recurring gag plagues on the OCD fear of getting a sexually transmitted disease without sexual transmission). One celebrity "cameo" is particularly politically well-timed. Appearances from Ricky Tomlinson and Johnny Vegas seemed rather superfluous.
