The Love Guru Reviews
Reel Film Reviews
...might just be the most puerile mainstream movie ever made...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
NewsBlaze
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.
Guardian [UK]
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Threat
It will curb your craving for laughs and won't leave you consuming more than is necessary.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Can Magazine
They are not putting any of the funny stuff from The Love Guru in the trailer. This is a rapid assault of comedy.
San Antonio Express-News
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.
| Original Score: 3/4
HollywoodChicago.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticMyers' Pitka is the stealthiest of holy rollers: he makes you roar just when you think he's going to hell in a hand basket.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The movie just barely works because it's so sure of the buoyant appeal of its title character.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Jam! Movies
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).
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| Original Score: 3/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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.
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| Original Score: 85/100
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.
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| Original Score: B-
What links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers.
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| Original Score: B
Colorado Springs Gazette
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.
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| Original Score: 5/10
EricDSnider.com
Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are that I wound up sort of enjoying it.
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| Original Score: B-
BDK Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Irish Times
