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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden was released on DVD yesterday, and I watched it. Hooray for me! Just like in his hit debut, Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock uses the gimmick implied by the title as a jumping off point. However, Super Size Me‘s premise has a little more power. We expected to see a guy suffer through month’s worth of junk food, and the movie delivered. In Osama, anyone with half a brain understands at the outset that this guy isn’t actually going to find Bin Laden (no groundbreaking news story was ever delivered with a question mark at the end). What Spurlock does find turns out to be compelling, but it also makes you wonder if he needed the gimmick in the first place.

Spurlock spends the first 15-20 minutes of the movie basically justifying the premise, that he knows from watching Jerry Bruckheimer movies that it’s always one lonely guy who saves the world, and blah blah blah. He goes to a survival school to prepare and there’s even a Spurlock vs. Osama video game parody interlude, all set to some puketastically literal background music. It’s all very cute. Morgan Spurlock is cute. I mean, his name’s Morgan for Christ’s sakes. You want to wrap a blankey around his rosey little cheeks and stick him in your bike basket. That said, this is just filler. We know you’re not going to find Bin Laden. Get to the point. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we’ve got the first five minutes (watch it after the jump) of the latest Spurlockumentary, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden.  It includes a video game parody in which an animated Osama whacks Spurlock with his turban and Spurlock garrotes him with his Fu Manchu while shouting “Mustache ride!”  Seriously.

I’d probably bone this movie, but I’m a little pissed at Spurlock’s parents.  When you have a last name like “Spurlock”, the awesome action movie name possibilities are endless.  “Rex”, “Remington”, “Brock”, “Turbo”, hell, even "Dave" – all acceptable.  “Morgan”, on the other hand, is the most effeminate male name in history.  The name “Morgan” is so gay that it’s at least 50% gayer than the name “Gay”.

Unless you’re an older black man, in which case it just makes you more distinguished.   

From Super Size Me diirector Morgan Spurlock (Organ Spurcock!) comes this new comedy about the search for the world’s most famous terrorist.  Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden opens April 18th.

If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from over 30 years of movie-watching, it’s that if the world needs saving, it’s best done by one lone man willing to face danger head on to take it down, action hero style. So, with no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do [Ed note - did they send the Dog??]: find the world’s most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple-he wants to make the world safe for his soon to be born child. But before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with. [Apple]

Pssh, finding Bin Laden – that’s ain’t gonna win the war on terrorism.  Everyone knows what we really need is an aging boxer, or a plucky hip hop dance crew. 

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