As the celebrity love guru of Los Angeles, Mike Meyers delivers jokes so poorly that they just clang to the floor like metal weights.
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07/11/08
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.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $32,178,777
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
1 - 20 (sorted by critic A-Z; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticPuerile and disappointing, what might have been a comical, irreverent look at Eastern guru wisdom a la Mike Myers is a load of balderdash, anchored by an elephantine bag of toilet humour, oversized penises and midget jokes
07/21/08
Top CriticThe satire of Bollywood musicals is obvious but about the closest thing to humour in what is undoubtedly the worst comedy of the year.
07/18/08
Top CriticPuerile and disappointing, what might have been a comical, irreverent look at Eastern guru wisdom a la Mike Myers is a load of balderdash, anchored by an elephantine bag of toilet humour, oversized penises and midget jokes
07/07/08
Top CriticI have to admit that there's something appealing about the fact that real life Leafs fanatic Mike Myers has constructed an entire film just so that he could see his beloved team win an elusive Stanley Cup.
06/21/08
What it doesn't have is anything actually funny or relevant.
06/19/08
Mike Myers is anti-comedy . . . that is, if one presumes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising or, yes, funny.
06/20/08
Top CriticFunny in fits and starts, though the fits are a little convulsive and the starts seldom come with a convincing ending or pay-off.
08/01/08
I am still comfortable believing Myers is a comic genius, but it's no where to be seen here.
08/27/08
Is this a trial balloon for a new comedy franchise or for Myers' post-movie stardom career as the next Dr. Phil?
06/20/08
The frustrating thing about the movie is that it contains moment of comedy that verge on inspired, but they are too infrequent to justify the running length.
06/20/08
This is dangerous advice for a writer to give (talk about glass houses), but Mike Myers needs an editor. He needs someone with a fat red pen to scratch out a few of his worst bad habits.
06/20/08
Myers' shtick isn't for everyone, but I laughed. Looking around, however, I saw that my fellow critics were enjoying themselves as much as Gordon Brown on the beach at Southwold.
08/01/08
Top CriticDespite its already toxic reputation, it has probably 12 or 18 gags that really work...[but] while some of the jokes click, most of the jokes that fail, fail apocalyptically.
06/23/08
I daresay that even a splinter in the eyeball would be less painful than sitting through this debacle.
06/25/08
A messy movie filled with too much juvenile humor.
06/20/08
The Love Guru contains a few clever touches but has trouble hanging together as a coherent comedy, let alone a coherent film.
08/30/09
This one may be best left to a trip to the video store.
08/01/08
The Love Guru is less a movie than a collection of related gags heaved at the screen. It’s a mess, but an affable one.
06/20/08
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
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