I daresay that even a splinter in the eyeball would be less painful than sitting through this debacle.
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06/25/08
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
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Perhaps Myers was so enchanted by his own desire to bring spiritualism to the masses that he forgot to actually bring the funny with it. Whatever the case, this is a shockingly laugh-free motion picture.
06/24/08
It will curb your craving for laughs and won’t leave you consuming more than is necessary.
06/24/08
Both the tissue thin character and the movie are hardly sustainable beyond an SNL sketch which makes the 90 minute running time almost as interminable as one of those Deepak Chopra sanctimonious self-help tapes.
06/24/08
Despite 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
just isn't funny by any stretch of the imagination, relying instead upon a mindless barrage of crotch humor, bodily fluid gags and midget jokes that won't amuse anyone other than the most juvenile of audiences.
06/23/08
It’s just deadly.
06/23/08
Top CriticBen Kingsley's eyes are crossed in a desperate attempt to vanish off-screen even if it means different sides of the screen at the same time.
06/23/08
Myers appears to have lost connection with the real lives and everyman empathy that drives the kind of long-form, narrative comedy he makes.
06/23/08
I still think Myer's has talent, but THE LOVE GURU was doomed the moment he created this unfunny character. A Poor comedy.
06/23/08
Mike Myers' talent is hidden under a barrage of crude jokes and situations
06/22/08
They are not putting any of the funny stuff from The Love Guru in the trailer. This is a rapid assault of comedy.
06/21/08
Mike Myers' latest character "Guru Pitka" borders on self-parody: a lovable clown peddling services of questionable value in a quest for self-fulfillment.
06/21/08
It's Mike Myers job to make you laugh, and he fails miserably in what might not be the best performance of his career, but it's certainly his worst.
06/21/08
Guru Pitka, as portrayed by Mike Myers, stoops about as low as any movie character I've ever seen in order to get laughs.
06/21/08
I 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
A messy movie filled with too much juvenile humor.
06/20/08
With this sort of junk, Myers obviously is all out of love, and one day he'll be so lost without us.
06/20/08
It's not very good but it won't want to make you tear your eyes out either.
06/20/08
The Love Guru is insulting to anyone with a healthy sense of humor and the simple desire to laugh.
06/20/08
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