Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Name: Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 20, 2006
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch

2006

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Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: January 20, 2006 | PG-13

Starring: Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch

Summary: Albert Brooks provides an inspired and comedic view of America's approach to other cultures. (Warner Independent Pictures)

Director: Albert Brooks

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 98 min

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Nathan Rabin

Like "The Aristocrats," Looking succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Albert Brooks may have come up with the funniest movie premise of the year in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Brooks' film is especially welcome now because it frankly admits that most Americans are ignorant about Muslims and have a lot to learn, in contrast with the few other Hollywood movies dealing with Muslims -- "Syriana," "Munich" -- which seem to suggest that non-Muslim viewers can emerge knowing the score. Read full review

M. E. Russell

Eraser-dull. Read full review

Michael Phillips

The results are distressingly flat, frequently patronizing and, for a topical comedy, strangely out of it. Read full review

Premiere Jessica Letkemann

At heart, a light, watchable film. Read full review

Wesley Morris

This is by far the most embarrassing of his seven movies. Read full review

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BruceC.

Jan 22, 2006

"Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" is Albert Brooks as we haven't seen him since 1985's "Lost in America." This satire, in which Albert Brooks accepts a governmental commission to write a 500-page report on what tickles the Muslim funny bone, misses no opportunity to poke "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" is Albert Brooks as we haven't seen him since 1985's "Lost in America." This satire, in which Albert Brooks accepts a governmental commission to write a 500-page report on what tickles the Muslim funny bone, misses no opportunity to poke fun at America's cluelessness about other cultures. Like "Lost in America" and "Real Life," its humor comes from Brooks's characters' desperate attempts to salvage some dignity in the face of a grand idea gone terribly wrong. This time his satirical targets include the ironies of his own career: the burden of being better known for voicing a fish in a cgi cartoon than for all of his other work combined. It's a welcome return to form for one of our bravest satirists.… Expand