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The Love Guru (2008)

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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.

12

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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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 233,458

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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,

Comedy

Mike Myers, Graham Gordy

Sep 16, 2008

$32.2M

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Critic Reviews for The Love Guru

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.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out
David Jenkins
Time Out
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It's just deadly.

June 23, 2008 | Comments (7)
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The Love Guru is insulting to anyone with a healthy sense of humor and the simple desire to laugh.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Miami Herald
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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: The New Republic
Christopher Orr
The 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
John Anderson
Washington Post
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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
Mike Edwards
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
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

Naughty Mike Myers comedy has little to love.

December 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times

Authentically repellent

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
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
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
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
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)
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Usually when a film is so hyped I often feel let down when I come to eventually seeing it. In the case of The Love Guru it is the other way round. Everyone hates it and everyone said not to watch it so I didn't. It was on TV the other day and I thought i'd give it a go and was surprised to find that it was quite funny. I honestly don't understand the hate for this film, it's much better than Goldmember and it had a couple of real laugh out loud moments. It's a little bit of more of the same from Mike Myers but I like him so was happy. I can think of many other films that were worse in 2008, most of you (my flixster friends) rated What Happens In Vegas higher than The Love Guru, I mean, what the hell is that all about. I now have trust issues.
April 29, 2013
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Anthony Lawrie

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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
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Jim Careter

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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 (13 months ago)
    1. Guru Pitka: Mariska Hargitay...Mariska Hargitay.
    – Submitted by topher h (14 months ago)
    1. Guru Pitka: I once read on a bathroom stall, the joke is in your hand.
    – Submitted by topher h (14 months ago)
    1. Guru Pitka: Give me a pound... lock it down.... break the pickle... tickle tickle!
    – Submitted by Kyle D (16 months ago)

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