Sometimes that analogy rings painfully true. In one country he tells a bystander that he is an American looking for Osama Bin Laden and the man asks him if he has a car. Spurlock, misunderstanding the question, uses the awkward interaction to interject a tasteless (and possibly racist) joke. "Why, do you want to blow it up?" he jabs.

What makes Where in the World so frustrating is that we know Morgan Spurlock is a talented filmmaker. Super Size Me! had a tremendous appeal to audiences and had a clear thesis: Fast food is dangerous for your health and I am going to show you why. He set up a plot for himself that consisted of 30 days of a McDonald's diet, a documentary that had a clear beginning, middle, and end. He also guaranteed himself a conclusion by seeing what his status would be after the 30th day. Along the way we got the jokes and his clever observations, but there was substance to his wit. But here, in the Middle East, Spurlock is out of his element, searching for a plot that he never finds and settling for an ending that is undeniably unsatisfying. By saying he is going to hunt for Osama Bin Laden he sets himself up for a big fall.

I know what he wanted to do with this film. He wanted to show us that even if we did find Bin Laden that would only be one tiny piece of a giant puzzle of problems. He sprinkles ideas throughout the film that touch on that message, but never with much focus or originality. From the very beginning, it is very clear that the filmmaker is harping on fish out of water comedy. What he does not realize about that scenario is that fish eventually die.

Movie Grade: C-