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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "You have to give the man credit. Brooks is willing to try anything." more... C+ Boston Globe Wesley Morris "Brooks doesn't provide a significant counterpoint to his snobbery." more... D   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Brooks' movie has a lot of humor in it, but it's buried, oblique, throwaway, inside, apologetic, coded and underplayed." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "The results are distressingly flat, frequently patronizing and, for a topical comedy, strangely out of it." more... C   E! Online "There is comedy in the Muslim world. It's just too bad he didn't look harder for it." more... C+ Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "The movie isn't racist; it's just lame. " more... C- filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "...this putrid bomb lays egg after egg after egg." more... D   Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck "Brooks delivers his reliably witty humor, but the comic peak comes with the title." more... B- New York Post Lou Lumenick "I'm always suspicious of a Hollywood movie offering moral lessons, but Looking for Comedy . . . offers a useful one: The whole world needs to learn to laugh at itself more." more... B   New York Times A.O. Scott "There's great satiric potential, but most of it is squandered after a hilarious opening." more... C   ReelViews James Berardinelli "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is a great title with a great premise for a not so great film." more... C   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "The laughs are decidedly hit-and-miss. But stick around, this satire knows how to bite you when you least expect it." more... B- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...a funny and appropriately skewed comedy..." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "..hit-and-miss." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "Albert Brooks may have come up with the funniest movie premise of the year..." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)