The comedian really climbs out on this particular limb -- a limb so far from the tree, it might have given Peter Sellers pause.
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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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
At 88 minutes, The Love Guru would have benefited from a trim of roughly 80 minutes.
06/20/08
The real insult to higher consciousness is that Love Guru's humor is about as mature as strained carrots.
06/20/08
[I]sn't merely endlessly crude: it's also dishonest and contemptuous of itself...
06/20/08
Let's not pussyfoot around: The Love Guru is an atrocious, idiotic 88 minutes of anti-entertainment.
06/20/08
A comedy of low blows and elephantine misfires.
06/20/08
Top CriticThe 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
When the comedy is short of sublime, it is more often sophomorically silly (and I'll confess right here to a weakness for horrible puns, though your mileage may vary).
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
For a comic genius, Mike Myers sure aims low.
06/20/08
You might look at this movie and see a lot of talent in service to low humor. But chances are, you'll be laughing too hard to notice.
06/20/08
When Pitka ends his bite-size lessons with 'TM,' we should understand it's not meditation but branding he's after.
06/20/08
Myers -- who used to be funny -- sticks his head in a toilet and then tries to give the audience a big, sloppy kiss.
06/20/08
Juvenile. Strained. This baggy tale of a loopy Deepak Chopra wannabe is all that and then some. The thing is it's also pretty funny as long as you know what you're in for.
06/20/08
What links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers.
06/20/08
With its scatological humor, penis jokes, feeble puns, and middle-school ideal of love, this Mike Myers vehicle exemplifies American comedy's continuing slide into infantilism.
06/20/08
Things are so bad here that the few good ideas seem brilliant.
06/20/08
To judge from the crowd reaction, a phalanx of true believers might, indeed, go along for the ride, but newcomers to the Mike Myers experience will leave this love train early.
06/20/08
Outdated, unfunny, juvenile and at times downright perplexing, the intended New Age satire comes off more like an over-expensive schoolyard prank; bathroom graffiti come to life across an 86-minute, patience-straining running time.
06/20/08
The kind of complete mess that makes a critic question the other "lowest possible" ratings he's given, because those films, honestly, weren't nearly this bad.
06/20/08
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