At one point Kingsley’s character makes his pupils duel with mops soaked in his own urine. If you think that’s funny, be my guest.
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08/01/08
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
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Funny 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
The puerile levels to which it sinks make even Goldmember, the crudest of the Austin Powers movies, look like Brief Encounter.
08/01/08
When not finding new names for willies, Myers – who also wrote the script – devotes the rest of the time to pitiful one-liners revolving around farting, snot and diarrhoea.
08/01/08
No child under 12 should have to undergo it. The same, mind you, goes for anyone over 12. Verdict: You'll hate it.
08/01/08
Beneath the disguise there lurks the spirit of Austin Powers, whose love of double entendres and fart gags remains present and politically incorrect. Which is exactly where and why The Love Guru falls down.
08/01/08
It seems the person in greatest need of a bit of self-help is Myers himself.
08/01/08
This one may be best left to a trip to the video store.
08/01/08
To describe this holistic-healing comedy as anything other than terrible would be gross dereliction of duty, but I'll make one concession: it's kind of meant to be.
08/01/08
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 CriticMyers has created in Pitka a character that’s sexually ambiguous, deeply neurotic and far more fascinating than the puerile script.
08/01/08
Top CriticIf you truly love yourself, do yourself a favour and avoid this spiritless comedy.
07/31/08
A film so numbingly unamusing that you seriously question whether you were mistaken to have ever found Myers funny.
07/31/08
Top CriticThey say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Well ‘they’ obviously haven’t seen ‘The Love Guru’, an overgrown dirt-patch of clunking juvenilia.
07/31/08
Its only merit is that it comes in at under 90 minutes - no movie comedy should exceed this. But in truth it ought not to have come in at all.
07/31/08
Dismal, laugh-free comedy that's actually painful to sit through, thanks to a badly conceived central character, a lazy script and Myers' incessant mugging.
07/31/08
Myers has a borderline-pathological need to mock Verne Troyer's height. It stops being funny quickly.
07/01/08
Incredibly unfunny.
06/28/08
So sari, Mike Myers. Your spoof of "Bollywood" stinks.
06/27/08
Schnabel’s bland direction expresses no particular vision.
06/25/08
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