To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
27 Nov 2006
rotten:
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.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
7 Oct 2006
rotten:
I think this thing is just flat and dead.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
11 Feb 2006
rotten:
A comedian should never attempt to be a diplomat.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
11 Feb 2006
fresh:
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.