No child under 12 should have to undergo it. The same, mind you, goes for anyone over 12. Verdict: You'll hate it.
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08/01/08
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
Beneath the disguise there lurks the spirit of Austin Powers, whose love of double entendres and fart gags remains present and politically incorrect. Which is exactly where and why The Love Guru falls down.
08/01/08
It seems the person in greatest need of a bit of self-help is Myers himself.
08/01/08
This one may be best left to a trip to the video store.
08/01/08
To describe this holistic-healing comedy as anything other than terrible would be gross dereliction of duty, but I'll make one concession: it's kind of meant to be.
08/01/08
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 has created in Pitka a character that’s sexually ambiguous, deeply neurotic and far more fascinating than the puerile script.
08/01/08
If you truly love yourself, do yourself a favour and avoid this spiritless comedy.
07/31/08
A film so numbingly unamusing that you seriously question whether you were mistaken to have ever found Myers funny.
07/31/08
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.
07/31/08
Its only merit is that it comes in at under 90 minutes - no movie comedy should exceed this. But in truth it ought not to have come in at all.
07/31/08
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.
07/31/08
Puerile and disappointing, what might have been a comical, irreverent look at Eastern guru wisdom a la Mike Myers is a load of balderdash, anchored by an elephantine bag of toilet humour, oversized penises and midget jokes
07/21/08
The satire of Bollywood musicals is obvious but about the closest thing to humour in what is undoubtedly the worst comedy of the year.
07/18/08
As the celebrity love guru of Los Angeles, Mike Meyers delivers jokes so poorly that they just clang to the floor like metal weights.
07/11/08
Puerile and disappointing, what might have been a comical, irreverent look at Eastern guru wisdom a la Mike Myers is a load of balderdash, anchored by an elephantine bag of toilet humour, oversized penises and midget jokes
07/07/08
Myers has a borderline-pathological need to mock Verne Troyer's height. It stops being funny quickly.
07/01/08
Incredibly unfunny.
06/28/08
So sari, Mike Myers. Your spoof of "Bollywood" stinks.
06/27/08
Schnabel’s bland direction expresses no particular vision.
06/25/08
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