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Critics Consensus: Although the premise seems ripe for laughs, Albert Brooks isn't ruthless or clever enough to pull it off.
Critic Consensus: Although the premise seems ripe for laughs, Albert Brooks isn't ruthless or clever enough to pull it off.
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Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.
The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree on exactly who the heck Jesus is, but they're fully capable of bonding in boredom.
I think this thing is just flat and dead.
I like all of Brooks's features, which are brilliantly conceptualized and deftly executed. This one's no exception, and some of the laughs are genuinely cathartic.
A comedian should never attempt to be a diplomat.
For all its silliness, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is also a work of integrity.
Finally seeing this film so many years after I was told it was awful, I can't agree with the people who told me that. Perhaps I love Brooks' self-deprecating humor too much. Paul Chambers, CNN.
If there were any justice, the garlands now given to Woody Allen for Match Point would be handed over to Brooks
Brooks is going to India to shoot a movie (most of it filmed in New Delhi) about how to get laughs on foreign soil.
In Albert Brooks's new film, we get another plausible explanation of why we fight -- and it may be the most unsettling of all.
Those who like their humor wry and dry will be rewarded by a nuanced study of the way self-absorption can keep people disconnected, be they comedians, governments, or you and me.
Looking For Comedy in the Muslim World is full of Albert Brooks' trademark jokes and absurd scenarios.
An interesting movie. Quite good.
Super Reviewer
Albert Brooks is one of those actor-writer-directors who definitely hits and misses. Like Lost in America, this movie is mostly a hit. I laughed very hard for periods of time in this pseudo-documentary about Brooks' US government sponsored search to determine, in a 500-page report : ), what constitutes "funny" in India and Pakistan. I loved sequences like the job interview and, especially, Brooks' stand-up performance in India where he redefines impromptu comedy -- and revives one of his very early real-life ventriloquist routines.
More than anything in this, I was overjoyed to discover the acting and comedic talents of American-born Sheetal Sheth. She is definitely worth the watch, even if you've been disappointed by some of Brooks' work in years gone by.
Brooks fails to bridge that crucial sar-chasm that transcends any language barrier.
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