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Overall Grade: D
Story: D
Acting: C-
Direction: C
Visuals: D
Offensive
by Farooq (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: F
Acting: C
Direction: F
Visuals: B-
India is in Asia and is 85% HINDU (not Muslim)
by aaprpatel (movies profile) (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 (... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: D-
Acting: B
Direction: F
Visuals: F
Fairly ridiculous
by Kosti G (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: B+
Story: C+
Acting: B+
Direction: B-
Visuals: B
Albert Brooks and the Muslim World
by (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: C
Story: C
Acting: C+
Direction: C+
Visuals: C
"Looking for Comedy" Stumbles Out of Gate
by Thomas (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: A-
Story: A
Acting: A
Direction: C+
Visuals: B-
Did the negative reviewers see this movie?
by RaymondD (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: D-
Story: D+
Acting: C+
Direction: D
Visuals: C
Negative Funny
by Lance (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: A
Story: A
Acting: A
Direction: A
Visuals: A
Laughed so hard....
by Ramesh Pai (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: B-
Story: N/A
Acting: N/A
Direction: N/A
Visuals: N/A
Had a laugh
by Nagarjun (movies profile) (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... Full Review

Overall Grade: A+
Story: N/A
Acting: N/A
Direction: N/A
Visuals: N/A
a good start toward understanding some muslims
by John (movies profile) (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... Full Review
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