- Summary: Acclaimed comedians Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah lead a group of Muslim-American standup comedians as they visit big cities, rural villages, and everything in between to counter Islamophobia using the only weapon they have: jokes.
- Director: Dean Obeidallah
- Genre(s): Comedy, Documentary
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Positive: 3 out of 9
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Negative: 2 out of 9
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75The movie's fun, a lot of it having nothing to do with its specific subject.
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70The hint at disagreement among the performers about who can and cannot call themselves Muslim is particularly provocative — a debate that would have been better off played out on-screen rather than summarized after the fact.
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Sep 26, 201363The Muslims Are Coming! is at its best when the comedians talk to real people outside the controlled environment of a stage.
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50Muslim comics are correct about not needing to defend their faith in post-9/11 America. Their patriotism is not the point. I just wish they told better jokes.
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42I kept expecting Sacha Baron Cohen to traipse onto the scene. Alas, he doesn’t.
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40One part stand-up comedy concert film (think Kings of Comedy) to two parts social outreach activism, documentary The Muslims Are Coming! works somewhat better as the latter than the former.
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30This well-intentioned “docu-comedy” (as the filmmakers label it in publicity notes) is not very funny.
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