Non-stop naughty-body-part references with a level of humor more appropriate on a 4th grade bathroom wall than a Hollywood screenplay.
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06/19/08
The Love Guru (2008)
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Reviews Counted:159
Fresh:23
Rotten:136
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: The Love Guru features far too many gross-out gags, and too few earned laughs, ranking as one of Mike Myers' poorest outings.
Theatrical Release:01-08-2008
Synopsis: Love, hockey, and Indian spirituality come together in this film that marks Mike Myers's return to live-action comedy. THE LOVE GURU costars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, and Ben Kingsley.
Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco
Director: Marco Schnabel
Reviews for The Love Guru
If Mike Myers is obsessed with poop, pee and penises, that's his problem; if audiences make him rich for playing that out on-screen, then it becomes ours.
06/19/08
It's a silly spoof that is occasionally funny but grows tedious with excessive mugging and bad punning.
06/19/08
Under a new name and equally aggressive ethnic branding, Austin Powers is alive again.
06/19/08
Even if he is trying to find peace in his current banality, it doesn't make The Love Guru any easier to watch.
06/19/08
Ninety minutes pass like an eternity.
06/19/08
We get it, Mike: testicles are hilarious. Move on, please.
06/19/08
No amount of mugging can salvage a collection of scattershot jokes clothes-pinned to such a slender plot. It's one thing to parody a cowboy or a detective or a spy, but is there a cultural consensus on what's funny about Third World spiritualists?
06/19/08
Although a bit uneven, The Love Guru scores more guffaws than clunkers, though parents should take the PG-13 rating seriously.
06/19/08
Pop-culture riffing, winking double entendres, scatological humor, and silly names aren't just the foremost weapons in Myers' comic arsenal, they're all he's got.
06/19/08
This tale of a guru who brings joy to all who meet him is the most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room.
06/19/08
It's pretty dull and painfully unfunny, and it almost makes you long for the return of his irksome Austin Powers character.
06/19/08
Mike Myers' catastrophe is a paramount test of enlightenment. Smiling beatifically during each painfully unfunny gag demands more inner-strength than jogging through lava.
06/19/08
In reality, The Love Guru isn't likely to offend anyone -- save, perhaps, audiences that prefer their comedy sophisticated, not sophomoric, and devoid of references to bodily functions.
06/19/08
Thus Myers marries his two passions (hockey and not being funny) into one noxious ball.
06/19/08
Early on in the movie, Myers' guru character, Pitka, is doing yoga and literally sticks his head up his own rear end. There could be no more apt metaphor for what ensues onscreen
06/19/08
The jokes in the movie are just as dumb as the ones in the trailer, but what doesn't come across in a two-minute preview is just how many there are. It's an avalanche of dirty puns, and what it lacks in ingenuity it makes up for, almost, in sheer volume.
06/19/08
We're talking 15 or 20 minutes of decent material. The movie runs a little longer than that.
06/19/08
Planning on seeing it? You may well recoil from sports comedies, Bollywood musicals, self-help spiritualists, puns — even characters with beards — for the foreseeable future.
06/19/08
Took a lot of cheap shots at Indian culture. Myers went way too far and the sad thing was he wasn't even funny about it.
06/19/08
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