Dumb Guy Reviews: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

• Director Morgan Spurlock is a sell out.
• He went with the Hollywood happy ending instead of the much better alternative ending only viewable on the special features from the DVD.
• If you didn't see the flick, the ending is riddled with "let's hold hands and sing songs and all will be okay."
• The alternative ending is much more to the point and explains Americas failure in this whole mess and how Osama's messed up views are do in part to shitty foreign policy by fat-cat western politicians.
• Plus, nobody wants to see a naked couple in a bathtub during labor.
• Another thing in the special features is a great animation about America's role in the Middle East since Regan. Explaining our involvement in supplying the Taliban with arms against the Russians and the many broken promises made to Afghanistan and many other middle eastern countries.
• I have no idea why he left that out of the film. It explains so much.
• I highly doubt anyone who fears "foreigners" will be changed by this film.
• His other film Super Size Me, was much more popular and actually caused Mickey D's to change some of their menu.
• People can relate to french fries much better than Muslims.
• The marketing campaign for this film was horrible. The trailer was made like a slapstick comedy with Morgan yelling into caves "Osama, where are you?" And the posters are designed like action-comedies.
• But it turns out the film is decent documentary about Osama and some of the culture of the middle east.
• The distributors were probably scared to death that people wouldn't see the film because it seemed too serious and boring so they hammed up the marketing campaign and added cheese-ball, slapstick trailers.
• And in reality, due to the comedy slapstick, the film did poorly because people thought it wouldn't be as eye-opening and serious as Super Size Me was.
• See the film if you want an overview of the middle east or see the beginning of the film when Morgan goes through some training before his travels, there's some funny stuff there too.
• Don't expect a discovery channel type of deal and don't expect to be blown away.
• Realfilmrating of M4 - the whole movie is about politics, killings, war, genocide, religion.

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