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The Love Guru

The Love Guru (2008)

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14

Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 166
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 142

The Love Guru features far too many gross-out gags, and too few earned laughs, ranking as one of Mike Myers' poorest outings.

14

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 31

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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Movie Info

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

PG-13, 1 hr. 27 min.

Comedy

Mike Myers, Graham Gordy

Sep 16, 2008

$32.2M

Paramount Pictures

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Critic Reviews for The Love Guru

All Critics (168) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (144) | DVD (16)

It's just deadly.

June 23, 2008 Comments (7)
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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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.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comments (2)
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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The endless winks at the camera look more desperate, the jokes at Troyer's expense seem more tasteless.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: New Republic | Comment
Christopher Orr
New Republic
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Mike Myers is anti-comedy . . . that is, if one presumes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising or, yes, funny.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
John Anderson
Washington Post
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The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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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.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comments (3)
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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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.

April 8, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment
Mike Edwards
What Culture Source: What Culture

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.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

Naughty Mike Myers comedy has little to love.

December 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
James Rocchi
Common Sense Media

The Love Guru contains a few clever touches but has trouble hanging together as a coherent comedy, let alone a coherent film.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Times | Comment
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times Source: Washington Times

Authentically repellent

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

...might just be the most puerile mainstream movie ever made...

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment (1)
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Pitka's character seems overly based on what's convenient for a given scene.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen International | Comment
Brent Simon
Screen International

I guess the real audience is 40 year-old men with the mind of an 8 year-old.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | Comment
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

It's hard to take any of it seriously -- which would be fine if it were funny, but it's not.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Allow me to say this very clearly: this is not a good movie.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | Comment (1)
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

It appears Myers did not have someone behind the camera reigning him in. Too bad.

October 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Pete Hammond
Hollywood.com

Mike Myers fails miserably in what might not be the best performance of his career, but it's certainly his worst.

September 16, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze
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A horrible movie. I laughed maybe twice at this crappy film, not only was it stupid, there was no point to it. I cant say anything else about it because it sucked so much.

February 28, 2011
DreamExtractor
Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

Mike Myers has done it again. He's made another totally pointless, but beyond hysterical movie. As long as you know it's going to be stupid and going for cheap laughs, then you'll have fun. Justin Timberlake is funnier than I thought he would or could be. Jessica Alba still sucks. But it's a good movie about a love

December 20, 2010
theylovealexis
Alexis Nomm

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The Love Guru Quotes

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    1. Guru Pitka: People may say bad things about you but you should never say bad things about yourself.
    – Submitted by Cathy D (45 days ago)
    1. Guru Pitka: Mariska Hargitay...Mariska Hargitay.
    – Submitted by topher h (2 months ago)
    1. Guru Pitka: I once read on a bathroom stall, the joke is in your hand.
    – Submitted by topher h (2 months ago)
    1. Guru Pitka: Give me a pound... lock it down.... break the pickle... tickle tickle!
    – Submitted by Kyle D (4 months ago)

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