There is a $25,000,000 reward for information that leads to finding Osama bin Laden, but that isn't what led Morgan Spurlock on an international quest to find the Al Qaeda leader in Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? The stated reason is that he was about to become a father and needed to make the world safe for his new child. He says at the start of the film that the thing he's learned in a life filled with adventure movies is that "when the world needs saving, it's best done by one lonely guy willing to face danger head on..."

I suspect the real reason is that he saw the chance to make an interesting film, as he did with Super Size Me. In that film, Spurlock spent a month eating McDonald's food, seemingly putting his health at risk in the process. Here he travels to various Middle East countries, ostensibly looking for bin Laden, but really meeting the people of those countries and learning about them and noting the ways they are like us. In this, too, he seems to put his life at risk. He goes to dangerous places—including being embedded in Army units in Afghanistan.

In Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Spurlock talks mainly to people on the street. He visits in their homes with their families. He tries to help viewers understand the people of these countries. Often we only get to see the militant people. Spurlock shows us some of these, but most of the people we meet are very similar to us.

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