Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 85 Fresh: 30 Rotten:55 Average Rating: 4.9/10
Consensus:
Morgan Sprulock's doc offers occasional insights but gets bogged down by the director/subject's gimmicky schtick.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 18, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $264,438
Synopsis: Documentarian Morgan Spurlock rocketed to fame after daring to take on the fast food industry in the entertaining and much-lauded SUPERSIZE ME. For his follow-up, Spurlock wades back into controversial waters, and attempts something even more dangerous than a month of eating Big Macs: he... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Screenwriter: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock
Producer: Jeremy Chilnick, Stacey Offman, Morgan Spurlock
Composer: Jon Spurney
Screenwriter: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock
Producer: Jeremy Chilnick, Stacey Offman, Morgan Spurlock
Composer: Jon Spurney
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Reviews
At its best, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? offers a simplistic look at a complicated problem. At its worst, it provides the same.
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07/21/08
Top Critic
Morgan Spurlock has crafted an entertaining, lighthearted look at the middle east.
06/04/08
The film does offer a glimmer of hope that behind all the bellowing by politicians and thugs, there are millions of people in the Middle East who simply yearn for peace.
05/16/08
Top Critic
Spurlock approaches the state of the Middle East -- and therefore our world -- with an asinine every-dude-ness that isn't just simple-minded but wincingly self-absorbed.
05/16/08
Where in the world is Morgan Spurlock's head? Occasionally, during this exasperating and goofy documentary, it seems squarely on his shoulders. Most of the time, however, it's firmly lodged up another part of his anatomy.
05/16/08
Top Critic
Spurlock goes home in time for his son's birth, but if there's an end of violence and distrust possible in the Middle East, it is not yet visible.
04/30/08
Spurlock draws some weird paternal parallels, subconscious or not, between Osama as the fugitive founding father of Al Qaeda, and his own possibly wayward, pre-partum depression, stressed situation as an imminently expectant, first time fugitive dad-to-be
04/24/08
So shallow and silly that it makes reading The Nation seem like the deepest kind of bliss.
04/24/08
In his first film since Super Size Me, Spurlock tells you virtually nothing you didn't already know -- and, what's more, he does it with catchy videogame graphics and faux-naive man-on-the-street interviews that make Michael Moore look like Chet Huntley.
04/24/08
Top Critic
The physical dimensions of Morgan Spurlock, whose funny, edgy documentary Super Size Me drew an Oscar nomination in 2004, have returned to normal size. His ego, on the other hand, remains a tad inflated.
04/21/08
It's a little insulting to all the real reporters who've died in the field looking for hard information, not weak indie comedy.
04/21/08
Top Critic
Spurlock has some fun with video-game techniques and he’s certainly a likable guy, but this film is just too simplistic and repetitive.
04/21/08
Top Critic
Intermittently funny, fitfully engaging and occasionally enlightening.
04/21/08
Spurlock is good company: a more likable, less abrasive, less manipulative Michael Moore.
04/21/08
An uneven attempt to find Bin Laden AND laughs in a subjectnot exactly suited for jokes.
04/20/08
A Middle East primer for Americans who've been living in caves like Osama, delightfully juvenile entertainment for everyone else.
04/20/08
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