Critics Hate The Love Guru

[troutman]

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/loveguru

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10008757-love_guru/

Negative movie reviews are often very funny.

Mike Myers might have a real bomb on his hands here. Too bad, because I enjoyed all the Austin Powers movies. He never should have made a movie about the Leafs winning the Cup - bad karma.

[Boblobla]

Jessica Alba is hot.

The Leafs suck.

[CaptainCrunch]

I liked the first Austin Powers movies, but the other two were the rehashing of the same jokes with the occassional funny. I liked the first Wayne's World, but the second one was a re-run of the first. I've seen the previews of Love Guru, and it looks like rehashings of his earlier movies.

Frankly the only movie of his thats been fairly original was "So I married an Axe Murderer"

The problem with Myers form of comedy is that its better suited to short skits, and it tires out in a hurry.

I expect that this movie will make money in Toronto, and with the horny guy or girl crowd due to Alba and Timberlake. But it looks terrible, and probably is going to be terrible.

[MissTeeks]

I read the only good thing about this movie is Stephen Colbert's character, a drugged up CBC sports broadcaster. Why would anyone outside of Toronto want to watch a movie about them winning the Cup? Even my deep love of Colbert and Justin Timberlake isn't enough to make me sit thought this.

[J pold]

There where showing clips of it last night on Conan

Oh man it was painful

[Russic]

Originally Posted by MissTeeks

I read the only good thing about this movie is Stephen Colbert's character, a drugged up CBC sports broadcaster. Why would anyone outside of Toronto want to watch a movie about them winning the Cup? Even my deep love of Colbert and Justin Timberlake isn't enough to make me sit thought this.

That sounds like a pretty sweet movie all on it's own right there.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

I'll never pay to watch a movie where I'm supposed to cheer for the Leafs.

[Sylvanfan]

I can see Dana Carvey laughing at the first weekend box office results and thinking....see Master of Disguise wasn't the dumbest idea for a movie ever like you said it was! Than thinking like me...your career is now over in this business!

[Sample00]

Originally Posted by fotze

Looks terrible, but this coming from the only guy on earth who thought the Austin Powers movies sucked.

couldnt agree with you more, fotze!!

[liamenator]

Another skewering from Slate.com, http://www.slate.com/id/2193942/

Watching The Love Guru (Paramount Pictures) is a spiritual experience of a sort, but not the sort that its creator and star, Mike Myers, intended. 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. In the course of those long minutes, Myers leads you on a journey deep inside himself, to the source from whence his comedy springs—and it's about as much fun as a tour of someone's large intestine.

You could tell this movie was going to bomb based on the marketing blitz Paramount unleashed upon us. Myers has been absolutely everywhere trying to peddle it, something he did not need to do nearly as much with his previous projects. I'm so happy it's finally in theatres so I won't have to sit through 14 previews of it every time I turn on the TV.

[Got Miikka?]

It's no secret that Mike Myers is a HUGE Leafs fan. Clearly he made this movie for himself. It looks like crap.

I'll probably watch it some day when I'm hung over and it's on TBS at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon.

[fatso]

you know I really had no desire to see this movie. But I saw a couple clips of it up on the NY Times website and I was chuckling pretty good. I want to see it now, though I'm sure it won't sustain itself for the whole movie I'm sure.

I find the whole eastern mystic guru conceit pretty funny, and Myers is pretty good with ethnic caricatures: they're usually done in a hilarious but respectful or loving way... if that makes any sense. His performance in those few clips was pretty funny.

There's been a couple good films lately exploring the 'clash' between India and Western civilization... 'The Guru' with Heather Graham was pretty good a few years back.

[JiriHrdina]

14% "Freshness rating" on Rotten Tomatoes. That's insanely poor.

[HOOT]

I will be seeing it just because Colbert is in it, oh and Jessica Alba.

It sure does look like one of those movies you should get high to watch first

[Got Miikka?]

Originally Posted by fatso

There's been a couple good films lately exploring the 'clash' between India and Western civilization... 'The Guru' with Heather Graham was pretty good a few years back.

I watched them shooting some scenes for that movie in Central Park in NYC. Heather Graham looked at me. It was hot.

[flamesfan6]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

14% "Freshness rating" on Rotten Tomatoes. That's insanely poor.

ive seen worse... like the 3% for good luck chuck! (alba also in that)

so it cant be THAT bad......

[Save Us Sutter]

Originally Posted by Got Miikka?

I'll probably watch it some day when I'm hung over and it's on TBS at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon.

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Wayne's World was the greatest movie ever when I was a kid. I enjoyed the first Austin Powers the first time I watched it. With each subsequent viewing and with each subsequent movie, I have grown to hate Mike Myers more and more.

EDIT: With the recent rise of the internet, I find myself less and less inclined to sit through CRAP movies for the occasional shot of a hot girl. Sorry Alba, I can download you for free.

[Locke]

You know, this will be Colbert's "Death to Poochy."

If nothing else comes of it, its fodder for his show.

This movie is going to suck out loud. Worse than the Leafs on a Saturday night. Seriously.

[Engine09]

That fruit JustinTimberlake cast as a hockey player? This movie deserves to fail.

And Jessica Alba is terrible, every movie she has been in is complete garbage except for Sin City where she played a stripper who didn't take her clothes off.

[liamenator]

I can't remember where I read this but a reviewer was talking about how cultural satire has become Myers' niche - whether it is the slacker-generation's poster boy Wayne Campbell or the swinging 60s dinosaur Austin Powers - but where those films succeeded and Love Guru fails miserably is in their ability to ground the toilet humour in reality. Wayne's wiener jokes are the product of a juvenile high schooler hanging out in his parent's basement; while Powers' misogynistic tendencies are contextualized from his love generation background and contrasted against contemporary society. So the characters and their jokes feel, at some level, real.

But by all accounts, the problem with The Love Guru is that Myers uses the Deepak Chopra guru movement simply as yet another vehicle for penis jokes but in this case, the character just does not possess the same ability to make them feel genuine - there is just no context for them. The real humour in this subject matter probably should have come from satirizing the sense of despair that is the pre-req for a lot of people who search out guru-enlightenment. But apparently, Myers does not mine this territory whatsoever.