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.
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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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
Jun 20, 2008 Wide
Sep 16, 2008
$32.2M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (168) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (144) | DVD (16)
It's just deadly.
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.
The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.
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.
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.
It appears Myers did not have someone behind the camera reigning him in. Too bad.
Mike Myers fails miserably in what might not be the best performance of his career, but it's certainly his worst.
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
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, 2010Super Reviewer
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