The Love Guru
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 20, 2008
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imthenoobJun 8, 2013
My family and I are fans of Myers so we figure we'd at least get a good laugh out of it. Ended up being one of the worst films that I have ever seen. Just one god awful movie.
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JayH.Sep 11, 2008
Insultingly stupid, embarrassingly bad jokes sometimes. The occasional guest star appearances is amusing, but the movie is just dreadful and badly written.
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EnzoP.Jul 15, 2009
The Love Guru is a laugh out loud explosive comedy. But I got to give this movie a 1 cause of how stupid it was. For instance in the ending it was showing to elephants humping each other. So I respect what Rob B was saying but it is to The Love Guru is a laugh out loud explosive comedy. But I got to give this movie a 1 cause of how stupid it was. For instance in the ending it was showing to elephants humping each other. So I respect what Rob B was saying but it is to stupid for this movie to get good reviews.… Expand
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aamSep 8, 2008
This movie was pretty damn bad. and i'm sorry but anyone who gives it a 10 really has to find out what real comedy is. mike myers making poop noises and jokes and his erection is not really funny. if you give it a 10, go watch disaster This movie was pretty damn bad. and i'm sorry but anyone who gives it a 10 really has to find out what real comedy is. mike myers making poop noises and jokes and his erection is not really funny. if you give it a 10, go watch disaster movie maybe you will like that as well.… Expand
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ChadS.Jun 20, 2008
It hardly mattered that a lot of Americans were clueless as to what Mike Myers was satirizing when the titular character from "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" became something of a comic zeitgeist in the late-nineties and early It hardly mattered that a lot of Americans were clueless as to what Mike Myers was satirizing when the titular character from "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" became something of a comic zeitgeist in the late-nineties and early 21st century. That voice alone, an instrument in which Myers played all the right mercurical and randy notes, transcended the typical American moviegoer's limited grasp of film history. Myers brought swinging London across the Atlantic, and for a brief period, he was the only comic actor that mattered. But subsequent sequels, were less funny, less swinging, as Myers' penchance for gross-out humor started to grow tiresome. Fat Bastard was his nadir. The trend continues here. Jokes about masturbation, flatulence, male genitalia, urine, and "midgets" inspires silence, not laughter. And worst of all, the voice isn't funny. The Guru Pitka sounds like a child molester. And hockey? A comedy about hockey and Deepak Chopra? Myers, whose last notable appearance was playing straight-man to Kanye West as the rapper told a post-Katrina audience on live television that George W. Bush didn't like black people, gets his revenge for playing the unwilling stooge. In "The Love Guru", there's the temptation to look at Darren Roanoke(Romany Malco), a black hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, as a stand-in for West. For the record, Roanoke has a smaller penis than Jacques Grande(Justin Timberlake), and is scared of his mother. Think about it. What could be more emasculating to a rap artist? And finally, "The Love Guru" makes reference not just once(Coach Punch Cherkov's office is just like the seven-and-a-half floor in Charlie Kaufman's Martin Flemmer building), but twice, to Spike Jonze's "Being John Malkovich". The Los Angeles Times headline that proclaims Deepak Chopra's dominance over the Guru Pitka is an obscure reference to the John Cusack character bitching about living in the shadow of Derek Mantini(Ned Bellamy), who Craig Schwartz(Cusack) watches from his couch, as the populist puppeteer mounts a giant Emily Dickinson presentation("The Belle of Amherst") on live television. The Jonze film establishes a skewered world where puppeteers matter, as does "The Love Guru", which overstates the importance of spiritualists like Deepak Chopra in the popular culture. That's the only cerebral component in this puerile, mean-spirited, and above all else, cynical, film, that's purported to be a comedy, but is more like an object of performance art that deconstructs comedy and the human heart.… Expand
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EricP.Jun 30, 2008
Absolute crap. This movie was completely stupid, not funny and anyone who says this movie is funny has no idea what the hell they are talking about. The Happening was funnier than this and that was a Horror movie. Note to directors, stop Absolute crap. This movie was completely stupid, not funny and anyone who says this movie is funny has no idea what the hell they are talking about. The Happening was funnier than this and that was a Horror movie. Note to directors, stop making bad comedy movies, you're ruining the genre.… Expand
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RyanM.Jun 21, 2008
Completely absurd and ridiculous!! Nothing original here. Mike Myers style of comedy and writing is out-dated and not very funny. Viewers are smarter these days than the Wayne's World shtick style humor. Mike needs to reinvent...
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ChrisC.Jun 20, 2008
The most mindlessly stupid moveie I have seen in years. Totallly unfunny..empty. Don't waste your money. We walked out half way through...after others in the cinema.
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MichaelB.Jun 23, 2008
Do not support this trash! I walked out of this movie like many others did. We don't need raunchy jokes to be entertained. Good clean fun at the movies is what people yearn for. Please stand up for something and demand more from Hollywood!
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RobV.Jun 30, 2008
I'm afraid to say that I can't watch this movie. There is just no way I can have enough suspension of disbelief to even contemplate the completely unrealistic, unbelievable, and unfathomable idea that the Leafs could ever win the I'm afraid to say that I can't watch this movie. There is just no way I can have enough suspension of disbelief to even contemplate the completely unrealistic, unbelievable, and unfathomable idea that the Leafs could ever win the Stanley Cup. Enjoy the phoniness, Mike Myers because that's the inly way that they will ever win!… Expand
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DanOJul 10, 2008
As a fan of Waynes World, Austin Powers and even that Axe Murderer movie, and read the reviews and then went to theater thinking, "It cant be THAT bad"... It was and worse. I actually sat through the whole thing just waiting for one As a fan of Waynes World, Austin Powers and even that Axe Murderer movie, and read the reviews and then went to theater thinking, "It cant be THAT bad"... It was and worse. I actually sat through the whole thing just waiting for one redeeming scene. Their aren't any.… Expand
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ssnupa-Jul 6, 2008
This movie was so not funny. all the jokes are what every low humor 'comedy' is trying to do. sex jokes, fart noises. so boring i sat through it but i do not know why.
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TimD.Sep 19, 2008
this has to be without a doubt one of the lamest, least funny movies that has ever been produced. I can usually tell when a movie really sucks when the only review on the box is by some obscure critic, like the jackass from KGUN channel 9 this has to be without a doubt one of the lamest, least funny movies that has ever been produced. I can usually tell when a movie really sucks when the only review on the box is by some obscure critic, like the jackass from KGUN channel 9 who reviewed this. I am a huge Mike Myers fan, but I would really like to get my rental fee back and my two hours. I will watch anything with Jessica Alba in, but even she couldn't help this Austin Powers remake. I hope Myers isn't falling into that "self serving" mode that destroys a lot of good comics. We did not laugh one time....even the outtakes were abysmal. Please do not make a sequel to this cinematic boil!… Expand
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RobFJun 21, 2008
I went to this movie with a friend hoping for a movie so bad it was funny. What we got was a movie so bad we both walked out as the credits and gag reel rolled, our spirits broken, our stomachs turned in knots begging for us to to I went to this movie with a friend hoping for a movie so bad it was funny. What we got was a movie so bad we both walked out as the credits and gag reel rolled, our spirits broken, our stomachs turned in knots begging for us to to regurgitate the experience. If the CIA uses this film as a torture technique, I assure you it would be more effective than waterboarding.… Expand
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JoeK.Jun 21, 2008
He shoots, he misses, and the crowd boos!!!
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C.B.Jun 22, 2008
If you love Mike Meyers, you will likely enjoy this film. If you don't love him, fasten your seatbelts for a crap storm.
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JustinL.Jun 25, 2008
Awful, dull-witted comedy. Mike Myers ruined the name of comedy. Somewhat racist to Hindus and French Québecois. His silly trashy humor used in Austin Powers was great, but this movie is a total wash.
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MarkB.Jul 24, 2008
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it was that Mike Myers went over to the dark side, but it happened long before The Cat in the Hat. Most likely it occurred during the first 10 minutes of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, when It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it was that Mike Myers went over to the dark side, but it happened long before The Cat in the Hat. Most likely it occurred during the first 10 minutes of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Myers, wanting to make his shagadelic superspy a free agent again, betrays Elizabeth Hurley, the surprisingly believable (and endearing) romantic interest from the original AP: International Man of Mystery, as well as all sense of continuity and logic by writing Hurley out of the series permanently, in just about the laziest and most perfunctory way possible. (Uh, what evidence was there in the original that Mimi Rogers gave birth to a fembot?) This marked the complete sacrifice of the sweetness and heart in Myers' movies in favor of increasingly gross and juvenile gags replete with Myers replacing wit with elaborate makeup stunts that don't exactly cause Rick Baker too many sleepless nights. In short, while Man of Mystery was filled with Myers' affection for James Bond, Matt Helm, Derek Flint, Burt Bachrach and 1960s British pop culture, the two sequels feature Myers' affection for nobody and nothing save Myers. Austin Powers is gone, baby, gone, but Myers' self-indulgent egomania lives on in the relentlessly puerile and painful The Love Guru, the least of whose sins is Myers' refusal to make his central character (an Indian spiritual teacher who contradicts his philosophies by being obsessed with materialism and one-upping Deepak Chopra) an object of even the most obvious satire; such is Myers' preening desire to have the audience love him, which results in one of the most preening, obnoxiously camera-hogging performances in recent movie history. ("Couldn't you just eat me up?" Myers asks. "Yes, and then puke you right back out," we reply.) The jokes themselves are so endlessly, assaultively crass and prepubescent (which can be forgivable, if they're funny) that even Myers' fellow Canadians Terrence and Philip would launch a protest campaign. Marco Schnabel's direction is so amateurish that viewers really come to appreciate Jay Roach's expert staging of even the flimsiest material in the Powers trilogy. Concerning the performances, when JESSICA ALBA comes across the best in a movie, you know it's in trouble; she's no actress by anybody's standards (except maybe her immediate family's) but as the unlucky owner of a hockey team whose star player is counseled by the hero, Alba is certainly pleasant, natural, and has an extremely winning smile--fortunately, due to Schnabel's ping-pong camera placement in her scenes with Myers, you at least get to see it exactly 50% of the time! Alba's costars don't come across quite so well, to say the least; as Myers' cross-eyed mentor, Sir Ben Kingsley (The Wackness) not only puts Sir Laurence Olivier's late career Polaroid commercials and The Jazz Singer in their proper perspective, but proves that it's possible to sink lower in one's career than working for director Uwe Boll. Stephen Colbert, playing a drug-addled sportscaster, cause moviegoers to seriously question the intelligence, slyness and wit he regularly brings to Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Fortunately for Colbert, however, The Love Guru deservedly had very few moviegoers in attendance, so Colbert's reputation remains intact!… Expand
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GabB.Jul 28, 2008
I walked into the theater with friends expecting a dumb yet funny film, then wished I was alone and could leave. There's a problem when so much of your jokes are based around the idea that the joke was not funny...anyway...
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csw12Sep 2, 2012
Might be one of the worst movies ever made. Nothing went right and Mike myers gave a disgraceful performance and the sad thing, that was the highlight. Made no sense, humor totally mindless and script that i swear to god was written byMight be one of the worst movies ever made. Nothing went right and Mike myers gave a disgraceful performance and the sad thing, that was the highlight. Made no sense, humor totally mindless and script that i swear to god was written by someone who was on cocaine.… Expand
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cameronmorewoodNov 5, 2012
The Love Guru is 90 minutes that plays like three hours. The film honestly feels like it was written by a couple of middle schools with crayons in about five minutes. Pure filth.
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DominosDec 28, 2012
Quite easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen. My god is this awful. I don't think I laughed once, I just felt uncomfortable throughout the entire thing. Not a single one of these so called actors can act. Why is Justin Timberlake inQuite easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen. My god is this awful. I don't think I laughed once, I just felt uncomfortable throughout the entire thing. Not a single one of these so called actors can act. Why is Justin Timberlake in movies? Why? He really shouldn't be. I'd like to punch him right in the testicles. I would rather chop my willy off than have to sit through this again. Avoid at all costs people.… Expand
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CineAutoctonoAug 21, 2017
What the hell with this movie? This movie is very ridiculous and bizarre, Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Kanye Westa nd Jessca Simpson have lost the bet and the hope for the humanity, performancing this movie, relatively I should have see theWhat the hell with this movie? This movie is very ridiculous and bizarre, Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Kanye Westa nd Jessca Simpson have lost the bet and the hope for the humanity, performancing this movie, relatively I should have see the eclipse, before to see this trash of movie.… Expand
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EpicLadySpongeFeb 14, 2016
To celebrate Valentine's Day on my profile on Metacritic, I'm forced to do a review on this because it said 'Love' on the title, right? Mike Myers brings us a huge mess that could've been better... a lot better. How bad was it? It was 'Cat inTo celebrate Valentine's Day on my profile on Metacritic, I'm forced to do a review on this because it said 'Love' on the title, right? Mike Myers brings us a huge mess that could've been better... a lot better. How bad was it? It was 'Cat in the Hat' bad.… Expand
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PeterParker2479Jan 1, 2020
It’s a bad movie to be sure, but I like making fun of it. The humor is surprisingly mixed, the story kept me invested in its stupidity, and the worst moments of the movie kept me mad and embarrassed for the screenwriters, and wouldn’t youIt’s a bad movie to be sure, but I like making fun of it. The humor is surprisingly mixed, the story kept me invested in its stupidity, and the worst moments of the movie kept me mad and embarrassed for the screenwriters, and wouldn’t you rather have that than a boring, safe corporate sellout?… Expand
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