Both frantic and tedious, The Love Guru piles on the slapdash offenses.
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06/20/08
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
Mike Myers channels his inner Benny Hill for the endlessly juvenile comedy The Love Guru
06/20/08
The Love Guru isn't really about spiritual well-being or hockey; it's about Myers' mistaken belief that the comedic possibilities of male genitalia are endless.
06/20/08
For his transgressions, Mike Myers will be reincarnated as a dung beetle.
06/20/08
...a gigantic egg, though no one looks more pleased with it than Myers.
06/20/08
A fairly pedestrian, slap-dash piece of work but the tone is so light and goofy that it's difficult to imagine anyone getting offended by its onslaught of bathroom humor, penis gags, midget jokes, elephant sex, and Hindu-flavored satire.
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
Sorry, time's up. The final buzzer has gone on our spirited game of Spot the Laugh.
06/20/08
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06/20/08
The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.
06/20/08
Top CriticThe movie not only violates the Law of Funny Names (which are usually not funny), but rips it from the Little Movie Glossary and tramples it into the ice.
06/20/08
Top CriticMike 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
Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are that I wound up sort of enjoying it.
06/19/08
What it doesn't have is anything actually funny or relevant.
06/19/08
The Love Guru is creatively awful. The feeling you derive from this dud is comparable to swallowing a bottle of bulky Viagra pills while nursing an inflamed strep throat.
06/19/08
These are the sort of things that make you giggle at three in the morning, but you don't put them in your movie. Not if you want your movie to not suck.
06/19/08
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
Myers approaches the material along the lines of a nine-year-old child who has just heard his first dirty jokes and will not rest until he has made sure that he has repeated them to everyone he knows.
06/19/08
Somewhere, sitting in a room cluttered with Mr. Pibb cans and half-consumed bags of Funyuns is the adolescent writing staff responsible for The Love Guru
06/19/08
The film has no discernible rhythm, little in the way of wit, and the plot plays like Myers considered it an unpleasant obligation.
06/19/08
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