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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I actually read the book before I watched the movie, though I should have realised that Spurlock no doubt would have written the book out of the movie. A part of me felt that he was trying to capitalise on his success of Supersize Me, but to be honest with you this movie surpasses his first movie on some many levels it is amazing. In a way it appears that what he begins to do is to go on a search for Osama Bin Laden because, being an American who has grown up on Hollywood, a single person can generally succeed where the entire US army fails. However, the catch is that the conclusion that he reaches is so much different to the objective that he set out to do (though I doubt he ever was going to find Bin Laden).In a way one almost wants to dismiss this movie as being out of date since it is now an accepted fact (at least according to American propaganda) that Bin Laden is dead, and the number of terrorist attacks has dropped dramatically since the US withdrew from the Middle East and has now focused its attention elsewhere. However I believe that this movie (and the accompanying book) is actually very helpful, and very important, in helping us understand the ideas of others who live in the world with us.What this movie teaches us is that most of the inhabitants of the Muslim world are actually pretty decent people who don't want to kill us. The problem is that because many of them are poor and have no prospects of employment or bettering themselves then they are ready game for the Islamic fundamentalists. This is actually true of our own culture as we find the Christian fundamentalists also recruiting from the poor and the marginalised to help spread their own extreme understanding of the gospel.The thing that struck me the most was that the most hostile people to Spurlock's exploration actually came from within the state of Israel. Once again, most of the Israeli's were decent people, however he wondered into a very conservative part of the state and discovered that the locals were incredibly hostile, and he didn't even get to ask them a question. The fact that he was not a conservative Jew meant that he was an outsider and basically had to get lost, and if he wouldn't do that voluntarily, they would force him out with violence.As can be expected, and exploration of the Muslim world cannot go past without a visit to Palestine, and the thing about Palestine is that it is not a religious war, nor is it an ideological war, it is basically a war over land and over sovereignty. What Spurlock discovers is that the reason the Palestinians and the Israelis are fighting is because of a dispute over land. The Palestinians in fact do not want Bin Laden interfering in their dispute because, basically, it is not his dispute and it is only making it worse.The problem with reading the book before the movie, or even reading the book, is that he goes into a lot more detail with regards to the problem, and in fact travels to France and to the Muslim ghetto's there. I was actually really disappointed that he did not go to France in the movie because I believe that the problems that are arising there, namely the clash of cultures, is also very important to what is happening. Fortunately we do not see it as much in Australia, with the exception of the refugee debate. The thing is that what conservative Australian's are concerned about is that Muslims will come over here and start throwing their weight around and start forcing us to adhere to Muslim doctrine. This is something that we are already seeing in England, and I believe that it is a legitimate concern. My position is that we should let them come in, but they must understand that this is not their country, but rather a multicultural society, and if they do not like the way that our society operates then they can basically nick off.

Although the title makes it sound like it will be interesting and it is directed and written by Morgan Spurlock from Super Size Me which was a very engaging, original film, Where in the World is neither of those.It follows Morgan as he travels to the Middle East in search of- you guessed it- Osama Bin Laden. The movie takes you through many interviews with locals of Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and more. He asks them about their feelings towards America, and of course whether they know where OBL (as he calls him) is. None of these interviews yield any substantial, insightful or noteworthy remarks. The movie simply drags on and Morgan's mock quest seems pointless even for us to watch.The movie is overly gimmicky and my impression was that it tried much too hard to do something that had already been done before. Certain parts reminded me of Bill Maher's Religulous which I thoroughly enjoyed and actually saw 3 times. Similarly, Spurlock inserts some comedic elements into his scenes, a few of which I have to admit are funny. For instance he shows a page in Osama's diary which reads: 1. Clean Cave (this one is crossed out and done), 2. Kill all Infidels etc.; and on another page "I hate America", "I am bored today". This was the only moment where I actually laughed.The big difference is that Religulous posed real questions and was much more historical, analytical and instructive. If you're looking for a film where the director already has his answers before he sets upon his search, Fahrenheit 9/11 or Capitalism: A Love Story (which I will be reviewing soon) are much stronger candidates. Fabio said "it is like a bad Michael Moore" and that pretty much sums it up.Fabio's rating: 5 Mine: 3 Read more reviews at: http://paulinasmovies.blogspot.com

If this movie knows where he is, there'll be international headlines made, and the filmmakers will get that US$25 million (or more?) bounty that is placed on his head. Of course it will be silly to presume that this film can find the answers to the multi-million dollar question, or even come close to it, so just what was the intention?Morgan Spurlock isn't new to controversy, having burst onto the documentary scene with his real life gorging on MacDonald's for every meal in order to drive home the point that junk food really does junk your well being. So for this new film of his, it stems from his desire to seek out the world's #1 wanted man, and ask him just what floats his boat. He may be putting on his jester cap with his somewhat hilarious introduction, but looking at the preparation with vaccination and even attending some terrorism survival course, he's quite dead set in his mission to find that elusive man.Until of course you realize that he's hitting all the relative safe havens for the most part, before venturing into the more likely places in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But what he seeks to unearth is the Middle East's attitudes towards Americans, and it seems that the common consensus is that while they have nothing against the people, almost everyone that Spurlock chose to showcase, has issues with the foreign policies. And from interviews with the average Joes, they sure have issues with politics at home more than those that are from abroad. Spurlock also takes opportunity to slam the US foreign policy, and does so through a hilarious animated sequence involving Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty herself, in what would be a realistic case of sleeping with the wrong bedfellows.Bringing the camera from Morocco to Saudi Arabia, and interview people from both the state of Palestine and Israel, what he had presented were compelling arguments for and against, as well as plenty of moderate views that seek to debunk the bulk of western media who find delight in demonizing those in the Middle East. Through the looking glass peering at their everyday lives, the film comes to present the basic need for survival and providing for one's family, no matter one's geography, country, religion and culture. Naturally there were some feathers ruffled, especially when dealing with closed cultures who clam up, or intolerant folks who have no qualms in using violence, but in general, this documentary serves to be rather tame.Yes it's gimmicky in its title, and half the time you're not sure whether MXXSpulock will take that plunge and really head to where he will likely find some inkling of positive leads, but what it had presented instead, is something more powerful that this world really needs to reach out and have everyone taking a more tolerant attitude and to understand one another a lot more, to avoid conflict. This should be a world without strangers, and the documentary managed to show just a glimmer of that hope.

I can see why this didn't do well box office wise, because quite frankly it's pretty boring. I like Morgan Spurlock & think in his future Documentary's he should always be in front of the camera as well as producing & directing it. He is a great personality, and if the subject is right, he can make even a questionable subject enjoyable. However this film is a very long 90 minutes & doesn't seem to have any real point to it. I loved "Super Size Me," & even his FX show 30 days is more interesting & has more to say than this. Unless you are a die-hard Spurlock fan, I would skip this. I will say w/a better subject & a little bit more direction & set-up, he could very well have another good theatrically released documentary. This just isn't it. There are a couple good chuckles here and there, but the story really doesn't take you anywhere that is very interesting. Spurlock will always have the excellent "Super Size Me" to his credit, but here's hoping he can get another good subject to tell us about in a more interesting & entertaining fashion.