The Love Guru pegs the silly meter in the opening scene when Myers, as Guru Pitka, breaks out in a Bollywood-style 9 to 5 hoedown while picking at a sitar.
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06/20/08
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
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
If you're in the mood for a delightful tweak of today's self-actualizing New Age gurus, look elsewhere. If, on the other hand, you want to see gags about boogers, elephant poop, and mano-a-mano duels with mops drenched in urine, then this is for you.
06/20/08
While for some The Love Guru may feel as though its gags were forced and unworthy as a script of pure hilarity, those same opponents will find themselves either secretly snickering or outright chortling in a seat-bouncing fashion.
06/20/08
Nobody, apparently, told Myers he was doing a one-note character with a funny voice that wouldn't make a good 'Saturday Night Live' sketch, let alone an 88-minute movie.
06/20/08
The endless winks at the camera look more desperate, the jokes at Troyer's expense seem more tasteless.
06/20/08
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
Mike Myers is anti-comedy . . . that is, if one presumes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising or, yes, funny.
06/20/08
Top CriticThe road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.
06/20/08
Top CriticA bomb like this is a career killer, and Myers' is set to blow.
06/20/08
Myers' Pitka is the stealthiest of holy rollers: he makes you roar just when you think he's going to hell in a hand basket.
06/20/08
An oh-my-God-level disaster that’ll make you wonder if Hollywood actually hates us.
06/20/08
The movie just barely works because it's so sure of the buoyant appeal of its title character.
06/20/08
At least it doesn't waste any time. At somewhere near the 30-second mark, it gets right down to business, and that business is the kind of humor that doesn't usually get named in this paper.
06/20/08
Mike Myers' new comedy, The Love Guru, is a disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something.
06/20/08
The picture, written by Myers and Graham Gordy and directed by Marco Schnabel (no relation to Julian), is listless and pokey, chiefly because watching Myers in this particular guise is almost completely joyless.
06/20/08
The worse the joke is, the greater the manic gleam in Myers' eyes. He's trying to sell setups he probably knows aren't funny, and the strain can be hard to watch.
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
Myers shamelessly steals from himself.
06/20/08
It's vintage Myers, with an outrageous, broadly played character borrowed from Peter Sellers, silly makeup, bad puns, innuendo, the occasional pause for song and dance and Myers' ongoing obsession with little people.
06/20/08
This feeble spoof of self-help spiritualism is atrocious and inanely tedious.
06/20/08
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