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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:15
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: A sweetly silly but wafer-thin romantic comedy.
Theatrical Release:Jan 31, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $2,867,996
Synopsis: Only a guru could have predicted the fate awaiting Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry), a young Indian dance teacher with the best moves in Delhi. Mesmerized by a friend's promise of a New York penthouse and... [More]
Starring: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Christine Baranski
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Devoid of life, intelligence, humor, and anything else that could entertain even the most undemanding viewer, this film is a perfect example of something that should have been shipped to landfills, not multiplexes.
Top CriticA precipitous comedic falloff in the third quarter earns the film a qualified recommendation at best.
Top CriticA trifle, a silly one at that, but it's a charming trifle that's hard to resist.
Top CriticThe movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment.
Top CriticA mixed-up masala saved only partly by a charismatic cast.
Top CriticA joyous genre-blender guaranteed to crank up your karma.
Top CriticDelightful screwball comedy.
Top CriticIt's as if somebody dropped three bad scripts on the floor of a production office, and somebody else picked up the pages in random order and said, 'Let's make a movie out of this! And let's get Heather Graham to star!'
Top CriticWorks better than it probably should thanks mainly to a ready-for -anything lead performance by the ridiculously charismatic Jimi Mistry and equally game performances from an amusing supporting cast including Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei.
Top CriticAgreeable and slipshod in equal fashion.
Top CriticIt feels like an upstart indie, thanks to its original script, endearing performances, colourful aesthetic, uplifting soundtrack, parodic undertones and the compelling theme of ethnic assimilation.
Top CriticMistry and co-star Heather Graham lend a fetching naivete to their characters.
Top CriticAs a satire of charismatic cult movements, Tracey Jackson's screenplay merely toys with the possibilities.
Top CriticIf the film is true to the high spirits and vulgarity of Bollywood (and reasonably authentic in its depiction of Indian speech), it's also true to the crude plotting and characterization all too common in Bollywood.
Top CriticIt's goofy enjoyment that will have you humming Grease tunes the rest of the day.
Top CriticThere is hardly a funny line in the whole script, and director Mayer has no idea of what comic timing and delivery are all about.
Top CriticIt's better than it sounds.
Top CriticThe bizarre outcome of this nervy conceptual hybrid is a movie that plays stylistic hopscotch as it jumps from one square to the next, teetering perilously each time it lands on one quaking ankle.
Top CriticCalibrated to please, The Guru is a down-market but enjoyable goof.
Top CriticThis is the kind of movie for which the term 'guilty pleasure' was coined.
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