Movie Review: 'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World'

My girlfriend and I saw Albert Brooks' new film 'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World' yesterday evening at the Uptown Theater. I'm not really a fan of Albert Brooks, but I've enjoyed his voice over work in the Simpsons. However, I was looking forward to seeing a movie about humor in foreign culture, and I expected all sorts of misunderstandings concerning what is funny in Western culture and what is funny in South Asian culture.

In short, this movie fell way short of my expectations. Brooks' over-explanation of what sarcasm is to Sheetal Shesh's character, Maya, was painful. I realize that his performance was supposed to tank, but it wasn't even funny in an embarrassing way. It was just painful. I think it shouldn't be billed as a comedy, but a disaster film.

Don't bother to see this film.

Snowball rage

Here's a story from a town that my girlfriend and I pass through everytime we go to her parents' house in SW Minnesota.

Why are people becoming so outrageous in their behavior?