After losing the fat he had gained for eating McDonald’s products for a month, Morgan Spurlock chose a more energetic mission, which involved traveling in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This time, Spurlock chooses a more difficult mission, one that is more serious and lethal than eating at the McDonald’s: finding Osama Bin Laden.

The funny, easy-going film director could be considered courageous for picking such a challenging topic, which has been discussed for years all over the world. It all started from an Osama Bin Laden video, which was released shortly after President Bush’s re-election in 2004. Spurlock noticed that people had reacted strongly to it, being annoyed and amazed that the authorities could do nothing to find Bin Laden. “Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?‿ they were all asking. Spurlock then had the idea to make a film on this topic, but he did not know exactly how to handle it.

And then something helped him decide. At the beginning of 2006, he learned that his wife, vegan chef Alexandra Jamieson, was pregnant with their first child. The news encouraged Spurlock to find out more about how the violent events happening in the war-afflicted regions could affect his family life.

Unfortunately, Spurlock might have chosen too difficult a subject for himself, as he fails to prove he has any idea about what goes on in the Middle East.

Still, if you’re not really keen on learning the whereabouts of Bin Laden, you could enjoy the film’s message, which is more about cultural understanding than finding the world’s most famous terrorist.

A likable and sociable guy, Spurlock manages to befriend locals during his trip and convince them to talk about their war experiences and Bin Laden.

It is an often funny film that helps viewers understand a bit more about Middle East culture, but if you wish to know about serious stuff, such as terrorism, religion, oil or democracy, you’ll be disappointed.

“Super Size Me” was a very enjoyable and quite well documented film, which reached its purpose of informing the viewers about the way huge corporations brainwash customers. But the same tricks just don’t work for the film about Bin Laden, at least for someone who is aware of the graveness of the situation that affects the whole world.