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Love Guru, The
Paramount Pictures
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence and drug references
Starring
Mike Myers,
Jessica Alba,
Justin Timberlake,
Ben Kingsley,
Meagan Good,
John Oliver,
Verne Troyer,
and
Romany Malco
In the comedy The Love Guru, Pitka is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid – to the horror of the teams’ owner Jane Bullard and Coach Cherkov. Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Mike Myers
Graham Gordy
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Marco Schnabel
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 16, 2008
Theatrical: June 20, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
88 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
What links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Occasional bursts of comedy keep things from becoming unbearable but whenever Myers tries to get even a little serious or advance the "plot," the desire to take a nap becomes almost overpowering.

60
Film Threat
Stina Chyn
To be sure, The Love Guru is incredibly funny. Side-splitting laughter only stops when the movie does, so don't expect it to linger all the way to the parking lot.

58
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
I still kind of find myself admiring the actor, and the film. Love Guru is insane and self-indulgent but also fully committed, and there's a surprising undercurrent of earnestness to its philosophy portions.

50
Time
Richard Corliss
The Love Guru is a shambling, hit-or-miss thing, like an old Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. And like the situations those comics often got into, this movie is a fine mess.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Piles dumb gag upon dumb gag - it's like benign pummeling. Occasionally, you just have to laugh.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Enraptured by bathroom humor that doesn't even reach sophomoric standards. It's more on the level of preschool.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Travis Nichols
If you're a Toronto native or a big-time hockey geek, there are enough little in jokes to probably carry you through the leaden pacing and barrel-scraping gross-out humor, but it's an awfully dull ride for the rest of us.

42
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Newcomers to the Mike Myers experience will leave this love train early.

40
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
The film's sunniest moments occur whenever song preempts all the fighting and smirking. Myers leads the cast in sitar-accompanied covers of such Bollywood favorites as "9 to 5" and Steve Miller's "The Joker," revealing a glimmer of the cross-cultural romp that could have been.

40
Variety
Brian Lowry
So relentlessly juvenile as to merit a new twist on the PG-13 rating -- one that strongly cautions not only those under 13 but anyone much above it, too.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The Love Guru”does not bring out Myer's best, and aside from a deft early Bollywood parody, there’s nothing visually to help the fun along.

33
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Myers combines his love of references, silly names, and mindless repetition by having his guru use "Mariska Hargitay" as a greeting/mantra. The first time it's employed, it's merely unfunny; by the 13th or 40th time, it's almost hypnotic in its awfulness.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Myers is trying for another of his endearingly hormonal imp-egomaniacs, but hidden behind a wavy beard, a wax-curled mustache, and an astoundingly ugly squashed fake nose, he's a little too grotesque.

30
Washington Post
John Anderson
The results are a wheezy, tired attempt to milk more laughs out of the '60s, by doing exactly what "Austin Powers" did.

30
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Not only does the film stumble badly from one skit to another, the skits themselves have too much dead air.

30
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Now and again some pungent writing leaks through to poke fun at the excruciating banality of guru wisdom. But mostly it’s dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel, and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers, shooting for cuddly.

30
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
This Mike Myers vehicle exemplifies American comedy's continuing slide into infantilism.

25
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Adam Sandler can breathe a sigh of relief: Thanks to this crude, bafflingly unfunny comedy from fellow SNL alum Mike Myers, Sandler can rest assured that his "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" won't go down as the worst movie of 2008.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The Love Guru is even funnier than "Wayne's World" or "Austin Powers." Not.

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Myers has made some funny movies, but this film could have been written on toilet walls by callow adolescents.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The Love Guru is a comedy like the Leafs are a hockey team.

25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Insulting to anyone with a healthy sense of humor and the simple desire to laugh.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This is the first time we've seen Myers in the flesh since he committed assault and battery on Dr. Seuss, and I wish the cat had stayed in the hat.

20
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
An atrocious, idiotic 88 minutes of anti-entertainment. To borrow word-shtick from the guru Pitka, it's AWFUL as in, "Anyone Watching Feels, Um, Loser-ish."

20
NPR
Bob Mondello
None of them -- not one, not for a moment -- is remotely funny.

20
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
It recycles gags from earlier and better Myers movies and hopes that the audience won't notice because they're too busy staring at Timberlake's bursting Speedo.

12
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count.

10
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Offensive to Hindus. Never mind the Hindus; The Love Guru is offensive to pretty much anyone with a brain.

0
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.

0
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.

0
Slate
Dana Stevens
This tale of a guru who brings joy to all who meet him is the most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room.


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