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The Love Guru (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 148 Fresh: 20 Rotten:128 Average Rating: 3.3/10
Consensus:
The Love Guru features far too many gross-out gags, and too few earned laughs, ranking as one of Mike Myers' poorest outings.
Runtime: 90 mins
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. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good
Director: Marco Schnabel
Screenwriter: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy
Producer: Mike Myers, Michael De Luca
Composer: George S. Clinton
Screenwriter: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy
Producer: Mike Myers, Michael De Luca
Composer: George S. Clinton
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I am still comfortable believing Myers is a comic genius, but it's no where to be seen here.
08/27/08
Most jokes are centred around either genitalia or that Austin Powers-style of wink-nudge faux sexuality, which doesn't work at all with this character.
08/01/08
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.
08/01/08
At one point Kingsley’s character makes his pupils duel with mops soaked in his own urine. If you think that’s funny, be my guest.
08/01/08
Funny in fits and starts, though the fits are a little convulsive and the starts seldom come with a convincing ending or pay-off.
08/01/08
The puerile levels to which it sinks make even Goldmember, the crudest of the Austin Powers movies, look like Brief Encounter.
08/01/08
When not finding new names for willies, Myers – who also wrote the script – devotes the rest of the time to pitiful one-liners revolving around farting, snot and diarrhoea.
08/01/08
No child under 12 should have to undergo it. The same, mind you, goes for anyone over 12. Verdict: You'll hate it.
08/01/08
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
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
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