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10/18/08
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.
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
Director: Marco Schnabel
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Reviews for The Love Guru
While for some The Love Guru may feel as though its gags were forced and unworthy as a script of pure hilarity, those same opponents will find themselves either secretly snickering or outright chortling in a seat-bouncing fashion.
06/20/08
Against my better judgment, against my hardened presumptions going in, against all that is right and holy and decent in the universe, I have to admit that I%u2026ahem%u2026actually liked The Love Guru.
06/20/08
The movie just barely works because it's so sure of the buoyant appeal of its title character.
06/20/08
Juvenile. Strained. This baggy tale of a loopy Deepak Chopra wannabe is all that and then some. The thing is it's also pretty funny as long as you know what you're in for.
06/20/08
Top Critic...might just be the most puerile mainstream movie ever made...
11/06/08
Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are that I wound up sort of enjoying it.
06/19/08
They are not putting any of the funny stuff from The Love Guru in the trailer. This is a rapid assault of comedy.
06/21/08
Mike Myers has done it again as 'The Love Guru' is the most original and hilarious comedy since the first Austin Powers film.
06/19/08
When the comedy is short of sublime, it is more often sophomorically silly (and I'll confess right here to a weakness for horrible puns, though your mileage may vary).
06/20/08
I might have lost my entire college education watching this and it might be the dumbest film I have ever seen but I can't hide the fact that I was laughing hysterically.
06/19/08
Mike Myers is so spirited, good-natured and clearly having a blast being a goofball that it's almost impossible not to be won over.
06/18/08
The Love Guru pegs the silly meter in the opening scene when Myers, as Guru Pitka, breaks out in a Bollywood-style 9 to 5 hoedown while picking at a sitar.
06/20/08
Myers' shtick isn't for everyone, but I laughed. Looking around, however, I saw that my fellow critics were enjoying themselves as much as Gordon Brown on the beach at Southwold.
08/01/08
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.
06/20/08
Top CriticWhat links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers.
06/20/08
You might look at this movie and see a lot of talent in service to low humor. But chances are, you'll be laughing too hard to notice.
06/20/08
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.
09/12/08
The jokes in the movie are just as dumb as the ones in the trailer, but what doesn't come across in a two-minute preview is just how many there are. It's an avalanche of dirty puns, and what it lacks in ingenuity it makes up for, almost, in sheer volume.
06/19/08
It's vintage Myers, with an outrageous, broadly played character borrowed from Peter Sellers, silly makeup, bad puns, innuendo, the occasional pause for song and dance and Myers' ongoing obsession with little people.
06/20/08
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