15 Most Controversial Movie Moments 2016

Sasha Baron Cohen’s typically off-colour, boundary-pushing humour is back in full force in his latest puerile comedy, The Brothers Grimsby. Starring Baron Cohen and Mark Strong as estranged twin brothers who reunite and team up on an unlikely mission to save the world from a deadly virus, the movie features some predictably lewd scenes. Surprisingly though, its most controversial moment wasn’t when Baron Cohen’s character sucks poison out of his brother’s scrotum or when the twins get up close and personal with a giant elephant penis, but a scene in which Donald Trump is fictionally infected with AIDS.

In a ridiculously convoluted series of events, the new president elect is infected by way of a misfired bullet that hits Daniel Radcliffe (played by a lookalike and infected earlier in the film) and causes his blood to spray into a digitally imposed Trump’s mouth. Granted, given all the crap that Trump has spewed forth in the run up to this year’s presidential election about Mexicans, Muslims and women he should be fair game for comedy but with all that bigotry waiting to be exploited for comedic gain, Baron Cohen and Co saw it better to mock him via a very devastating disease. Heads up, Baron Cohen: AIDS isn’t a laughing matter even if it’s the man most likely to incite World War 3 that contracts it.