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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:50
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: A sweetly silly but wafer-thin romantic comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Only a guru could have predicted the fate awaiting Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry), a young Indian dance teacher with the best moves in Delhi. Mesmerized by a friend's promise of a New York penthouse and... [More]
Starring: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Christine Baranski
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
... those modest virtues can't prevail against the coarse jokes and shabby ethnic stereotypes of Tracey Jackson's disjointed script, Daisy von Scherler Mayer's unsteady direction, or the unflattering cinematography.
...a clunky, idiotic, laughless and amateurish collection of scenes targeted to people who have the intellect of mattress springs.
It's good fun -- almost a musical.
Although the film is loaded with potential and many satirical targets, the execution of the material leaves a lot to be desired.
"The Guru" is a light and frothy concoction that is a tasty little treat with its heart in the right place.
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a gentle comedy of colliding cultures
Devoid of life, intelligence, humor, and anything else that could entertain even the most undemanding viewer, this film is a perfect example of something that should have been shipped to landfills, not multiplexes.
A great film? No, but it's pleasant enough, with attractive actors, and the interspersed Bollywood numbers are a hoot.
A precipitous comedic falloff in the third quarter earns the film a qualified recommendation at best.
A screwball farce, not a musical, but it's entertainingly ridiculous in some of the same ways Moulin Rouge was.
With a reach that frequently falls short, higher wit and sexual sophistication crumble into plain old silliness.
It achieves flotation of benign idiocy because the stars are likable.
Mistry is appealing (even while enduring some pretty embarrassing moments) and the picture entertaining, but it never crosses into something relevant or creatively eccentric.
A trifle, a silly one at that, but it's a charming trifle that's hard to resist.
The movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment.
(The) musical numbers (of which there should be more) are full of spirit, sass and innocent splashes of energy, but the rest is haphazardly staged, passively filmed and edited with little regard to comic timing.
A mixed-up masala saved only partly by a charismatic cast.
A joyous genre-blender guaranteed to crank up your karma.
Sex, song, and Sally Jesse Raphael. The Guru celebrates -- and turns inside out -- cultural cross-pollinations.
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