The Muslims Are Coming (2013)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 6
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The Muslims Are Coming! is a comedy documentary which follows a band of Muslim-American comedians as they visit big cities, small towns, rural villages, and everything in between to combat Islamophobia! These comedians not only perform standup at each tour stop but create ridiculous interventions in unsuspecting town squares, like the ol' classic, "Ask a Muslim Booth" and "Name That Religion." Throughout the film, comedy icons like The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo,
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The film follows a group of Muslim-American comedians on a stand-up-and-public-relations tour who try to win over those skeptical of Muslims, one audience at a time.
Top CriticThis slight but entertaining documentary scores laughs along with its sociological points.
The comedy routines are so-so (though the falling-in-the-aisles reaction shots tell another story) and the comics' patchwork odyssey often derails into irrelevancies.
This well-intentioned "docu-comedy" (as the filmmakers label it in publicity notes) is not very funny.
For better and for worse, this feels less like a feature film than a stretched-out Daily Show segment.
Viewers outside the tristate area may have their minds blown. The rest of us may be only mildly amused.
Supporting commentary comes from the likes of Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, and Rachel Maddow, but the real stars, rightly so, are Farsad and Obeidallah.
It's all very admirable, but you may find yourself nodding in agreement more than doubled with laughter.
Despite their supposedly good intentions, the comedian-filmmakers broach the doc's central subject with crass and offensive standup routines that wouldn't be out of place on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
An amusing and timely movie, even if it's basically a Daily Show sketch writ large.
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