He’s the most wanted man in the world. And for the last seven years he’s been hunted by every security agency, from the CIA to Australia’s own ASIS.

So where they have failed, Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame attempts to succeed by heading out to the world’s trouble spots with camera crew in tow to take a look around for the elusive, beardy, mastermind Osama Bin Laden. He doesn’t succeed of course; they’d probably have mentioned it on the telly if he had.

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? is a simple idea; Spurlock’s wife is pregnant with their first baby, so fearing that the world is still too dangerous with Bin Laden out there somewhere lurking in the shadows he decides to capture the dialysis machine dragging baddie himself.

The opening animations and first few scenes are a little slow to get going. Spurlock spells out his little adventure so simply that it feels a little bit condescending. But this is a film made for a mainstream American audience, so it’s not surprising to see a of spoonful of sugar to help the Middle East go down a little easier.

Before heading off to Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Spurlock first undergoes survival training on home soil. There’s lots of diving from pretend grenade explosions, evacuation procedures and the like. He starts to grow his beard out, buys some white cotton robes, and heads out to the big bad world to chat to people about where they think Bin Laden is plotting our collective demise.

Like Super Size Me, WitWiOBL? is the Morgan Spurlock show. It’s his adventure that we’re tagging along with. And it turns out that it isn’t just Americans who find him to be and affable chap, because everywhere he goes (except Israel, where they became a little bit tetchy with his questioning) people open up to him, and allow him to briefly look inside their lives.

And I’m sure you’ll be shocked to find, that it turns out that all over the world people are more interested in a fair go in raising their families, with a roof over their heads and food on the table than they are in killing each other.

Along the way Spurlock drops in a layman’s guide to each country, US foreign policy and Middle East politics that mixes perfectly with his discussions with everyone from the man on the street to Bin Laden’s relatives, that all come together to paint a fascinating picture of the world (or at least our perceptions of it) post September 11.

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? rates 3 stars.