Rock the Kasbah (2015)

ROCK THE KASBAH  (2015)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Barry Levinson
    Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson,
    Zooey Deschanel, Leem Lubany, Arian Moayed,
    Scott Caan, Danny McBride, Fahim Fazli 
Murray plays a bottom-feeding agent who books his only bookable client on a USO tour in Afghanistan. They get there and she bolts, leaving him broke and without a passport. But there's a talent-contest reality show on Afghan TV, and an Afghan girl up in the mountains with an incredible voice. Where do you suppose this is going? Uh huh. Murray's unhinged obnoxiousness is a throwback to some of his earlier work, and the movie's kind of all over the place, barging along between crazy and crass. It's got its moments, though, enough to qualify as a guilty pleasure maybe, depending on your mood. Musical highlight: Leem Lubany as the Afghan girl covering Cat Stevens. Musical lowlight: Murray's ear-splitting rendition of "Smoke On the Water".