Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 105
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 66
Morgan Sprulock's doc offers occasional insights but gets bogged down by the director/subject's gimmicky schtick.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 24
Morgan Sprulock's doc offers occasional insights but gets bogged down by the director/subject's gimmicky schtick.
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After revealing just what a diet of Big Macs can do to a person, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock takes a tongue-in-cheek look at another threat to our collective well-being in this witty documentary from the maker of Super Size Me. When Spurlock learns that he and his wife are expecting a baby, he decides that he wants the child to grow up in a safer world than we know today, so he takes it upon himself to track down the most dangerous man on Earth, Osama bin Laden. Spurlock hops on a plane and flies
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Complicated global problems require something a bit more challenging than this.
Top CriticMorgan Spurlock is a living, breathing cautionary tale. Take a good, long look, kids: This is what happens when society validates really annoying people.
A superficial primer for people who aren't likely to go see it in the first place.
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.
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.
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.
Shrinks the world situation to fit the mood of America and gets away with it. Candy-coated reality? Yankee vanity? Maybe so. But the sunniness is welcome.
Makes Michael Moore look like Marcel Ophüls
Super Size Me guy heads to the Middle East.
There is room for a tough, journalistic documentary presented by someone who really did want to know the answer. But this isn't it.
Spurlock's disarming, slightly goofy demeanor gets him out of situations that might mean trouble for anyone else. His films are always fun and even illuminating to watch.
This film finds him becoming more sentimental, perhaps because of his new domesticity, but the film is still consistently entertaining.
What makes it all work is how honest and grounded Spurlock is.
Of course it's outrageous: it's supposed to be.
Woefully small-scale, often misguided.
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