The Love Guru (2008)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 144
The Love Guru features far too many gross-out gags, and too few earned laughs, ranking as one of Mike Myers' poorest outings.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 36
The Love Guru features far too many gross-out gags, and too few earned laughs, ranking as one of Mike Myers' poorest outings.
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Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and taken in by kindly gurus. An American by birth, Pitka absorbs the lessons taught to him by his teachers and later returns to the United States to become a leading authority on spirituality and
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Cast
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Mike Myers
Guru Pitka -
Jessica Alba
Jane Bullard -
Justin Timberlake
Jacques "Le Coq" Grande -
Romany Malco
Darren Roanoke -
Verne Troyer
Coach Cherkov -
Ben Kingsley
Guru Tugginmypudha -
Meagan Good
Prudence -
Omid Djalili
Guru Satchabigknoba -
Jessica Simpson
Herself -
Kanye West
Himself -
Deepak Chopra
Himself -
Robert Blake
Himself -
Manu Narayan
Rajneesh -
John Oliver
Dick Pants -
Stephen Colbert
Jay Kell -
Jim Gaffigan
Trent Lueders -
Telma Hopkins
Lillian Roanoke -
Daniel Tosh
Cowboy Hat -
Ron Huebel
Frat Guy -
Rob Gfroerer
Sickly Nerd -
Rob Cohen
Nerd -
Linda Kash
Female Reporter -
Bob Bainborough
assistant coach -
Autam Chopra Aka
Deepkak Early 20's -
Gotham Chopra
Deepak Early 20's -
Suresh John
Indian Man -
Trevor Heins
Young Pitka -
Jaan Padda
Young Deepak -
Sean Cullen
Referee -
Mike Nahrgang
Angry Fan -
Matt Baram
EMT -
Boyd Banks
EMT -
Samantha Bee
Cinnabon Cashier -
Garry Robbins
Biker -
Peter Schoelier
Uncle Jack -
Ben Gans
Goal Post Judge -
Taylor Flood
11 Year Old Girl -
Alexia Filippeos
11 Year Old Girl -
Shakti Kupil
Sanjay -
Graham Gordy
DJ -
Michelle Marshall
Oprah Winfrey Voice Dou... -
Jahlani Bishop
Children's Church Choir -
Zoia Davis
Children's Church Choir -
Donna Ellis
Children's Church Choir -
Jazmine Jeffrey
Children's Church Choir -
Danielle Johnson
Children's Church Choir -
Carlisa Lewis
Children's Church Choir -
Elyssa Marshall
Children's Church Choir -
Jamila Mason
Children's Church Choir -
Nathaniel Robinson
Children's Church Choir -
Helen Semmunigus
Children's Church Choir -
Daniel Skeete
Children's Church Choir -
Tierra McRae-Spence
Children's Church Choir -
Kadesha Webb
Children's Church Choir -
Clarice Gillard
Children's Church Choir -
Raemiah Dorrington
Children's Church Choir -
Knikole Frans
Children's Church Choir -
Zachary Jones-Hurst
Children's Church Choir -
Tyra Jones-Hurst
Children's Church Choir -
Adisa Liburd
Children's Church Choir -
Sabrina Morris
Children's Church Choir -
Nadine Muir
Children's Church Choir -
Larissa Abrams-Ogg
Children's Church Choir -
Tracey Soman
Children's Church Choir -
Alpha Kayondo
Children's Church Choir -
Ashton Williams
Children's Church Choir -
Madhumita Sen
Group Dancer -
Krystal Kiran Garib
Group Dancer -
Uppekha Jain
Group Dancer -
Dani Jazzar
Group Dancer -
Karun Pathak
Group Dancer -
Sachin Bhatt
Group Dancer -
Prosenjit Kundu
Group Dancer -
Robert Halley
Group Dancer -
Sharat Chawla
Group Dancer -
Namita Kapoor
Group Dancer -
Hetal Patel
Group Dancer -
Nazneen Irani
Group Dancer -
Shereen Ladha
Group Dancer -
Sharona D'Ornellas
Group Dancer
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All Critics (169) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (146) | DVD (16)
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Well 'they' obviously haven't seen 'The Love Guru', an overgrown dirt-patch of clunking juvenilia.
It's just deadly.
The Love Guru is insulting to anyone with a healthy sense of humor and the simple desire to laugh.
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.
The endless winks at the camera look more desperate, the jokes at Troyer's expense seem more tasteless.
Mike Myers is anti-comedy . . . that is, if one presumes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising or, yes, funny.
Do you remember Mike Myers? Well I suggest that you hold on to that memory and lock it tight inside you, because The Love Guru wants to destroy it.
It's a rare film that makes a reviewer consider giving up the movies altogether. My own Waterloo came forty-five minutes into The Love Guru when I briefly considered stabbing out my own eyes so that I wouldn't have to watch it any more.
Naughty Mike Myers comedy has little to love.
The Love Guru contains a few clever touches but has trouble hanging together as a coherent comedy, let alone a coherent film.
Authentically repellent
...might just be the most puerile mainstream movie ever made...
Pitka's character seems overly based on what's convenient for a given scene.
I guess the real audience is 40 year-old men with the mind of an 8 year-old.
It's hard to take any of it seriously -- which would be fine if it were funny, but it's not.
Allow me to say this very clearly: this is not a good movie.
Audience Reviews for The Love Guru
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Super Reviewer
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- Guru Pitka: People may say bad things about you but you should never say bad things about yourself.
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- Guru Pitka: Mariska Hargitay...Mariska Hargitay.
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- Guru Pitka: I once read on a bathroom stall, the joke is in your hand.
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- Guru Pitka: Give me a pound... lock it down.... break the pickle... tickle tickle!
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