The Love Guru contains a few clever touches but has trouble hanging together as a coherent comedy, let alone a coherent film.
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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence and drug references.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jun 20, 2008 Wide
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
Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Omid Djalili, Ben Kingsley, Verne Troyer
Director: Marco Schnabel
Director: Marco Schnabel
Screenwriter: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy
Producer: Mike Myers, Michael De Luca
Composer: George S. Clinton
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for The Love Guru
Pitka's character seems overly based on what's convenient for a given scene.
It’s hard to take any of it seriously -- which would be fine if it were funny, but it’s not.
I guess the real audience is 40 year-old men with the mind of an 8 year-old.
It appears Myers did not have someone behind the camera reigning him in. Too bad.
Myers has his head in the toilet more than a Florida State University freshman co-ed during homecoming weekend.
Like a kid let loose in a toy store, this bad boy horny guru could have used more direction, but he does impress with his driving skills atop a pachyderm, during elephant sex.
I am still comfortable believing Myers is a comic genius, but it's no where to be seen here.
The whole vaguely pitiable enterprise has tiny flickers of brilliance which can’t be denied, but almost can’t be detected, either.
Most jokes are centred around either genitalia or that Austin Powers-style of wink-nudge faux sexuality, which doesn't work at all with this character.
Dismal, laugh-free comedy that's actually painful to sit through, thanks to a badly conceived central character, a lazy script and Myers' incessant mugging.
At one point Kingsley’s character makes his pupils duel with mops soaked in his own urine. If you think that’s funny, be my guest.
Funny in fits and starts, though the fits are a little convulsive and the starts seldom come with a convincing ending or pay-off.
The puerile levels to which it sinks make even Goldmember, the crudest of the Austin Powers movies, look like Brief Encounter.
When not finding new names for willies, Myers – who also wrote the script – devotes the rest of the time to pitiful one-liners revolving around farting, snot and diarrhoea.
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