The Love Guru scrapes bottom for laughs, resorting to pop-culture jokes (Lindsay, Britney), weak musical numbers (Dolly Parton's '9 to 5' on sitar) and, most abysmally, the sight of two elephants doing it.
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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
This half-baked attempt to create a feature film around a riff on Deepak Chopra finds Mike Myers lost in Powers.
06/19/08
Unlike Dr. Evil, who wasn’t afraid to be unlikable, Pitka’s schtick is one giant cry for acceptance -- eccentric but not challenging, therapeutic but not cathartic -- which is absolute death to comedy.
06/19/08
Laughs forgive a lot. Just ask Judd Apatow. But when the funniest line in the movie is an outtake from Verne Troyer, you've got problems.
06/19/08
Mike Myers likes ice hockey. He also likes Deepak Chopra, a little bit too much. So he pulled together a bit of hockey and a whole lot of Chopra and called it a plot.
06/19/08
Hello, police? I'd like to report a mugging. Oh, it was horrible, horrible! Yes, I'm safe now. The mugging took place in a movie theatre, but I fear the mugger will strike again!
06/19/08
More painful than sitting next to an Austin Powers impersonator during a 12-hour flight.
06/19/08
Love isn't the right word to describe the feelings generated by this Guru.
06/18/08
Mike Myers is so spirited, good-natured and clearly having a blast being a goofball that it's almost impossible not to be won over.
06/18/08
written as though it had been tossed off rink-side in the first 10 minutes after the author had been hit in the head with a puck. Hard.
06/18/08
It took Mike Myers five years to come up with this?
06/18/08
Myers wants us all to love him, wants us all to be in on his jokes. But love and laughs are earned, not given just because you mug for the camera behind a wild wig and beard.
06/18/08
Not only does the film stumble badly from one skit to another, the skits themselves have too much dead air.
06/18/08
Top CriticUnless I'm watching a DVD or a Saturday Night Live rerun, I don't ever want to see Mike Myers again.
06/17/08
Offensive, revolting and jawdropingly awful from beginning to end, a complete and total piece of Singularly Horrid Infantile Trash (TM).
06/17/08
Has the feel of a Mike Myers vanity production with bathroom jokes that most of us outgrew before we got to high school.
06/17/08
...a failed stew made up of mugging, penis jokes, horrible puns, and feel-good mantras.
06/17/08
The Love Guru is so relentlessly juvenile as to merit a new twist on the PG-13 rating -- one that strongly cautions not only those under 13 but anyone much above it, too.
06/17/08
Top CriticA sketch stretched to the limits of a feature, Love Guru, yet another Myers fish out of water comic creation (spoofing ashrams and gurus), is so silly, shallow, and harmless that despite being stereotypical should not stir controversy or offend anyone
06/14/08
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