Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Critic Reviews

Like "The Aristocrats," Looking succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.Read the full review

I liked the movie. I smiled a lot. It maintained its tone in the face of bountiful temptations to get easy laughs.Read the full review

Albert Brooks may have come up with the funniest movie premise of the year in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.Read the full review

A funny and appropriately skewed comedy.Read the full review

Though it risks political incorrectness every step of the way, film is more a pleasant laugher than a sharp-edged satire.Read the full review

The movie doesn't so much end as reach a stopping point and limp hurriedly off-screen, like a bad stand-up chased out by boo birds. But God, is it funny.Read the full review

This Brooks is a comedian who forgets the golden rule of "know your audience." He thinks he'll get his laughs if he keeps doing the same act with better lighting.Read the full review

Not Brooks' funniest film, but it possesses his trademark wry humor and is slyly observant.Read the full review

Front-loaded with inspired gags, and the first half-hour is both sneakily and explosively funny, raising expectations that are never quite met.Read the full review