combine serious drama with adequate comedy be touchy at the best of time . look for comedy in the muslim world pull it off thanks to a topical subject and a fantastic script while not to mention albert brook excellent broodish character portrayal . but man of the year can not come close by comparison . it have a messy message fold in with forced joke and a twisted love story that be completely unbelievable . the premise initially seem very promising . put a jon stewart like comedy news guy up for president of the united state and see what happen . this independent runner be tom dobbs ( robin williams and rv ) and a successful tv personality who be pressure into run by his audience . along with him come his manager jack ( christopher walken and click ) and and his writer eddie ( lewis black ) . seem to have very little chance at a successful run and tom dobbs amazingly win the election . but do he . eleanor green ( laura linney and the exorcist of emily rise ) be a computer whiz at the company who design the new software for electronic voting at polling station . she find a glitch in the system that be quickly sweep under the rug by the company owner and his dark attorney alan ( jeff goldblum and independence day ) . poise to lose billion of dollar if word of this get out and the company evil men decide to discredit and or or kill eleanor to make sure she never tell anyone . but eleanor be able to get to president elect dobbs and finally spill the bean ( this be where the unbelievable love story start blossoming and too ) . dobbs go onto saturday night live and explain everything to the world and thus remove himself a the newly elect president and end the career of those at the computer company . oh and and save ms. green life . do any of this sound funny . the comedy be forcefully wedge into the story and be often awkward . robin williams blaze for a few moment during a debate but be quickly douse a the gravity of how he become president bear down on him . the message of the film be interesting and debatable and too represent that special interest own presidential candidate . i be sure there substantial truth in this and and if you want to make a movie about it you could . if you want to make a comedy about you could . but man of the year isn not it .