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NHL DVDs | Home » » » The Love Guru | | | | | | | Description: | | A hilarious comedy starring Mike Myers as guru Pitka in his first original character since the blockbuster hit Austin Powers. Myers plays an American raised in India by gurus (Tugginmypudha & Satchabigknoba) and returns to the U.S. in order to break into the self-help business. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player (Romany Malco), whose wife left him for a rival athlete Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake). Mini Me is back from Austin Powers and plays the hockey coach for more classic comedic moments that will have audiences laughing from opening to closing credits. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Romany Malco, Justin Timberlake, Meagan Good | | Format:
| AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, French, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Paramount | | Run Time:
| 87 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| September 16, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 73 reviews |
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14 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Miserably, Wretchedly AwfulOct 15, 2008
By Sir Charles Panther
"Life is hard. It's harder when you're stupid."
I remember the negative rumblings when this film was in production. The advance screening reviews did not treat it well, and most reviews once it opened also were not good, some of them downright brutal. Then it was in and out of my local megaplexes in less than a month. Now it's on DVD, right after the end of the summer, not even waiting for the holiday market, not even tying into some kind of wacky Halloween marketing-thing.
Through all of these increasingly negative omens I kept faith, figuring, "Hey, it's Mike Myers, the man who brought us "Sprockets" on Saturday Night Live, the Wayne's World guy, the Austin Powers guy." I like to watch So I Married an Axe Murderer when it's on cable; I even know most of that crazy "O, Harriett" beat poem. I knew that while this particular film might not be his best, that it could be Mike Myers' Blame It On Rio, that I'd still find it overall funny and entertaining.
Not so. This film is absolute junk, right from the beginning. It was so awful, I turned it off after 40 minutes.
Yes, it really is that bad. In Amazon.com reviews I have savaged--given them what they're due, actually--that ridiculous CGI-permeated gunk Van Helsing and that vapid Hollywood The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition) garbage, and I recently let I Am Legend have it as well, each for their own failings. But I sat through each of those stinkers, right through to the end titles. This one didn't even earn that level of interest and respect. By forty minutes, I had had enough of the idiotic humor, the flat jokes, the bad characters, Myers wallowing in his own grossly overinflated sense of comedic creativity and personal hip-itude, and I had no interest at all in seeing how it would all turn out.
Myers plays a wacky Indian guru, a holy man specializing in love and relationships, but he has neither love nor a relationship of his own, and a clanking elephant-head chastity belt to boot. The guru comes across as self-centered, money-grubbing, commercially prostituted, demented, capricious, manipulative and foul. There is no serenity, no grace, not the slightest indication of any kind of scholarly depth, just a rapid-fire stream of idiotic caca-doody and genital jokes. It's all urine and feces, phallic goofs, simulated pain inflicted on male sexual parts, the kind of stuff I found trite once I matured into 7th grade. Now, I love the Jackass movies, so I know from funny in slapstick agony, genitals and excretory humor. But this film was just mindless, moronic junk, a collection of Myers' jokes and stupid puns, the stuff that didn't make the cut for the second Austin Powers sequel, run together with a contrived, meandering, patchwork, pathetically predictable story.
If you've seen the film, you'll know that Myers' Guru Pitka would say that this film is pure Comprehensive Radical Adjustment Participation.
I mean, in the scene in which Myer's guru and his destined love have their first big date, he has arranged a very special meal which looks exactly like human testicles. Both he and Jessica Alba bray their way through the endless stupid jokes, it all ending with the hilariously beaten and mutilated edible having to be discarded. We've already been beaten over the head that the guru wants Alba as THE love of his incongruously empty life, and so this is the way he, The Love Guru, the man who has so much depth and experience in love and relationships, creates his first impression for his one-and-only? Absolute garbage.
Myers' Indian guru character offended even me, and I'm about as white-bread as they come. His bad Indian accent drifted in between the Saturday Night Live/"So I Married an Axe Murderer" Scottish Dad, Fat Bastard and Shrek. I mean, he couldn't even take the time to get his Indian accent down, so busy was he working on these complex, meaningful, mutually reinforcing gags about elephant dung and fighting with mops dripping with the fresh urine of his deeply honored guru-master.
Vern Troyer is reduced to spewing profanities, being the butt of increasingly vicious little-person jokes and a series of demeaning, ugly sight gags in which he is always the victim of physical violence.
Ben Kingsley--the guy who played freeking Gandhi, and won the Oscar for it--is reduced to playing a cross-eyed clown. Sad.
Jessica Alba is stunning, predictably, but still just can't act, even in this shallow story.
And then there was the endless parade of celebs who want to be in a Mike Myers film, from Val Kilmer to Oprah, bad and forced cameos all, the kind of overblown star-packing formula that made me puke in "Goldmember."
The only good part I encountered lasted all of 20 seconds, a wonderfully done, detailed spin on the typical Bollywood boy-girl musical number, with Myers and Alba. It was great, right down to the disorienting camera zooms, the impossible physical backdrops, the music and lyrics, the nauseatingly deep, warbling color and a jittery box with understated yet funny subtitles. This was what this film should have been.
Bottom line: Avoid this film; there is nothing redeeming in it. For a more entertaining South Asian romantic comedy experience, watch The Guru instead.
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
If there was a rating for minus 10 stars, this movie would be minus 20 starsDec 17, 2008
By Andrew C. Stahlgren
"bam bam"
This is simply the worst movie I ever saw.
I love the Austin Powers movies and could watch them repeatedly.
I was so disaapointed in this movie that I feel compelled to save everyone from this terrible let down.
There was one or two funny moments and that is it. Mike floped on this one and I am amazed that it got released. This movie rivals Catwoman for the worst movie ever made award.
AVOID !!!!!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
No Karma, No LaughsJul 20, 2008
By Scott T. Rivers
Mike Myers' latest attempt to emulate the comic genius of Peter Sellers falls painfully flat. With the proper script and direction, "The Love Guru" concept would have been ideal for Sellers in the late 1960s. Though Myers deserves a little credit for trying something different, the material simply isn't there.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Stunningly badJan 15, 2012
By Picturesque Music
There is a reason this has 15% on RottenTomatoes, a score reserved for the worst of the worst. When this was on TV recently I decided to give it a shot. I like a lot of comedies: Austin Powers, for example, even the very stupid stuff in Borat makes me laugh.
The problem with The Love Guru is that it's not funny. You can tell easily when they are trying to put in the jokes, but you're just left scratching your head. A prime example is the guru rides into a room on an electrical magic carpet. Then somebody from the set (e.g. videographer) enters the picture, gets on it, and rides off. Not funny, just pointless.
It was the most I could to do watch 15 minutes of this. It deserved 0, but it got 15. I watched no more.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Worst. Movie.EVER!Nov 27, 2011
By K. Nash
Not sure what compelled my husband to rent this weird, non-comedy, but it was a huge mistake to pay anything for this garbage!!! It is simply a terrible movie. For every joke that's funny (which are VERY few) there is about dozen that are not. Then there's all the jokes we've seen in previous Myers films that aren't so funny the 4th time around when they appear in this flick. Guru Pitka (Myers) is not funny or likable. The other actors are fairly bad, although they really don't have much to work with either. Many moments in this film will having you looking around the theater wondering if anyone else finds this movie as stupid as you do.
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