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Overall Grade:
D
Story:
D
Acting:
C-
Direction:
C
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by Farooq (
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(May 10, 2008)
75 of 87 people found this review helpful
I'm a muslim, and I was actually excited to see this movie, thinking it would offer unique and much-needed insight into the religion which spans cultures, races, and nati...
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Overall Grade:
F
Story:
F
Acting:
C
Direction:
F
Visuals:
B-
India is in Asia and is 85% HINDU (not Muslim)
by aaprpatel (
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(May 10, 2008)
63 of 97 people found this review helpful
Albert Brooks's latest movie, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, could have been funny and interesting if Brooks actually went to the Muslim world and not to India (...
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Overall Grade:
F
Story:
D-
Acting:
B
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Fairly ridiculous
by Kosti G (
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(May 10, 2008)
45 of 70 people found this review helpful
Looking for comedy in the muslim world? And he starts in India, where any audience will be on average not more than 15pc Muslim, based on demographics. Since theres no c...
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Overall Grade:
B+
Story:
C+
Acting:
B+
Direction:
B-
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B
Albert Brooks and the Muslim World
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(May 10, 2008)
36 of 55 people found this review helpful
I first saw this film in the New York showing. Now the story was good, but do to the circumstances, he could not shoot the movie in true Muslim countries such as Saudi Ar...
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Overall Grade:
C
Story:
C
Acting:
C+
Direction:
C+
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"Looking for Comedy" Stumbles Out of Gate
by Thomas (
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(May 10, 2008)
12 of 13 people found this review helpful
I've always been an admirer of Albert Brooks' films from "Lost in America" to "Mother" to "The Muse." He's consistently been L.A.'s answer to Woody Allen and like Allen d...
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Overall Grade:
A-
Story:
A
Acting:
A
Direction:
C+
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B-
Did the negative reviewers see this movie?
by RaymondD (
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(May 10, 2008)
11 of 15 people found this review helpful
They actually explain why he went to India at the start of the movie, so to complain about it either means you didn't see the movie, or you can't follow things that are c...
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Overall Grade:
D-
Story:
D+
Acting:
C+
Direction:
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Visuals:
C
Negative Funny
by Lance (
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(Feb 27, 2007)
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
I see about 100 theatrical movies per year. I suppose that I've seen around 2000 movies in theaters. Searching for Comedy in the Muslim World is probably in the 10 worst...
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Overall Grade:
A
Story:
A
Acting:
A
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A
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A
Laughed so hard....
by Ramesh Pai (
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(May 10, 2008)
8 of 11 people found this review helpful
If I had read through all the reviews before actually seeing the movie, I would not have seen the movie. But I'm glad I didn't read them. The movie rocked!! The best wa...
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Had a laugh
by Nagarjun (
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(Feb 14, 2006)
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
i would say it is a funny movie altogether, but the title of movie and the country where the movie was filmed dont match, India has less than 10% of muslims, i believe, 9...
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a good start toward understanding some muslims
by John (
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(Nov 11, 2007)
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
a despotic muslim can't take a joke ... you can't see your behavior as an object of humor ... let's face it guys, a man that can't or doesn't know when to laugh at himsel...
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