The Love Guru (2008)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Marco Schnabel

Writers (WGA):

Mike Myers (written by) &
Graham Gordy (written by)

Release Date:

20 June 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

His Karma is Huge

Plot:

Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete. |

Plot Keywords:

Penis Joke | Singing In Car | Elephant | Rotoscoping | Bird Attack

Cast

Mike Myers	...	Guru Pitka / Young Pitka / Teenage Pitka / Himself
Jessica Alba	...	Jane Bullard
Justin Timberlake	...	Jacques Grande
Romany Malco	...	Darren Roanoke
Meagan Good	...	Prudence Roanoke
Verne Troyer	...	Coach Punch Cherkov
Ben Kingsley	...	Guru Tugginmypudha
Omid Djalili	...	Guru Satchabigknoba
Telma Hopkins	...	Lillian Roanoke
John Oliver	...	Dick Pants
Jessica Simpson	...	Herself
Kanye West	...	Himself
Deepak Chopra	...	Himself
Rob Blake	...	Himself
Manu Narayan	...	Rajneesh

Also Known As:

Gourou de l'amour, Le (Canada: French title)
Love Guru, Der (Germany)
Untitled Mike Myers Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence and drug references.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA | Canada | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Certification:

Ireland:15A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #44134) | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:K-11 | Netherlands:12 | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:G (Québec) | France:U | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva)

Filming Locations:

Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Goldcrest Pictures

Trivia:

In 1998 it was reported that Mike Myers would be playing four characters in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), the fourth being Austin's love guru. This character finally surfaced in a starring role in 2008.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the bar fight the guru is being hit by a birthday girl and held back by another birthday girl. Between hits they somehow switch places.

Quotes:

Guru Pitka: Let's look at the word, guru. Ok. My goal is to get you to say "Gee You Are You", tm.

Movie Connections:

References Enter the Dragon (1973)

Soundtrack:

Lead Me To Your Rock

Jumping the Shark is too kind a phrase for this mess!

If you hate Mike Myers then this movie will be your holy grail...the one you hold high and proclaim loudly "See, I told you this A-Hole wasn't funny!"

If you love Mike Myers (as I do, in a totally manly non-ancient-Greece type way) then you'll just have to hang your head and silently agree.

What in Krishna's name went wrong here? How could these people have sat in an editing room and watched this hundreds of times during the final cut and not said to themselves " I have to save Mike Myers from himself!" I only had to watch the first fifteen minutes ONCE before I was ready to walk out.

How do I hate thee, let me count the ways; BAD acting, BAD casting, BAD writing, BAD directing, BAD dialogue, BAD excuse for a hockey mask (What is this, 1975?)

Is there anything good in this movie? YES! Romany Malco (Weeds, The 40 Year Old Virgin) rises above the dreck by playing a real person in a comic book universe. He's funny, sympathetic and believable; in short, everything this movie IS NOT.

I did get some good laughs though, out of the previews for "Tropic Thunder" and "Hamlet II". Do yourself a favor and miss this one (throwing up popcorn is a painful experience!)