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The Love Guru (Single-Disc Edition)
RRP: $14.99Our Price: $1.74 (subject to change)Editorial
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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.
Editorial
Amazon.com
Mike Myers, creator of Wayne's World and Austin Powers, adds another character to his arsenal of comic personae. With his thick beard, curly mustachios, and easy-to-remember aphorisms, Guru Pitka (Myers) has built a reputation as love advisor par excellence--but he's still just America's #2 guru, after Deepak Chopra. Finally an opportunity comes his way: If he can heal the rift between a star hockey player (Romany Marco, Weeds) and his wife (Meagan Good, Stomp the Yard), he can appear on Oprah. But when he meets the hockey team's comely owner (Jessica Alba), Pitka realizes he must solve his own love problems as well. Myers can't resist a good bodily functions joke--unfortunately, he can't resist a bad one either, so The Love Guru is crammed top to bottom with jokes about urine, feces, sex, genitalia--lots and lots about male genitalia--along with many, many gags about Canada, drugs, elephants, inspirational catchphrases, and little people (Vern "Mini-Me" Troyer takes the brunt of these). But the Austin Powers movies were pretty much the same sort of lowbrow comedy grab-bag; though the ratio of good to bad might be weaker here, a good handful of bits offer solid laughs, including some mock-Bollywood musical numbers. Also featuring pop star Justin Timberlake (as a preposterously well-endowed French-Canadian), Ben Kingsley (as Pitka's cross-eyed mentor), Stephen Colbert (as a drug-addled sports announcer), as well as numerous celebrity cameos. --Bret Fetzer
A disappointmentReview date: 2010-09-07 Rating: 2 out of 10Mike Myers plays Guru Pitka, a spiritual leader who's tired of being "the poor man's Deepak Chopra". He's hired by the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs because they think the only way they can win the cup is if their star player gets back with his wife and they hope Guru Pitka can get them back together.
From Mike Myers, creator of Wayne's World and Austin Powers, I'd expect a solid comedy, but "The Love Guru" was obviously not written on one of his good days (Myers and cowriter Graham Gordy "won" a Razzie Award for worst screenplay). The story is weak but in comedies like this the characters and jokes are often more important than the story. Unfortnately, Guru Pitka is nowhere near as funny as Austin Powers for instance, and the jokes often fall flat, with some exceptions. Ben Kingsley's talents are wasted in an unfunny role as an older guru. 1+
ReviewsGood, yoU aRe UglyReview date: 2010-07-08 Rating: 4 out of 10Mike Myers has a certain comedic equation for this particular project, "The Love Guru": puns + man's crotch = 86 minutes of waving it around.
Nowhere in this movie is safe from provocative play-on-words, visual aids of the nether-regions, and simple double entendres; I'm a veteran at knowing double entendres, so no word of promiscuous implication, regardless of how subdued, ever flew over my aggravated head. That's pretty much his schtick, because...what else does he have? He's an aged hound relying on the same old tricks: speaking to the audience and winking from "Wayne's World", silly acronyms that spell out a vulgar word from "Cat In The Hat", midget jokes from "Austin Powers", men gettin' their testies smashed also from "Austin Powers", and sing-a-longs from popular hits..."Austin Powers" as well; in fact, this movie is a step-backward regarding sing-a-longs since Myers only mockingly sang by lyrics instead of adding his own words. "Austin Powers" also did the whole 'love' puns, but the movie was never funny for that; it was funny for Dr. Evil's crazy antics. Reattempting familiar gags for this movie doesn't make them funny, they're just old.
It's just as unfortunate, since the main character, Guru Pitka, has to carry the humor for the whole movie. He's the exact opposite of a spiritual adviser, being a narcissistic and materialistic fool. Despicable in obvious ways, and his childish teachings for so-called 'wisdom' is actually creepy, almost as creepy as the scenes where Myers's head in digitally-inserted in a child's body. The side characters are a letdown; I didn't expect much from Jessica Alba who's role is metaphorically spreading her legs for the entire movie or Justin Timberlake existing for a schlong joke and a phony accent, but I'm disappointed in Romany Malco. Malco has been a funny guy in "40-Year-Old Virgin" and the first few seasons of "Weeds", but he has no stellar material for his role. His Canadian 'Tiger Woods of Hockey' character is a straight-forward object for Pitka to interact for screen-hogging gags. Not even Stephen Colbert as a sadistic sports announcer could bring in the laughs; I was begging for him to make any Phil Ken Sebben quote.
"The Love Guru" is all about taking the easy way approach to comedy, and it felt flat on its Mukh. If it manage to make me feel ashamed of Ben Kingsley doing a urine scene for laughs, then I have the right to complain.Elephant crap, bodily functions, and all-out cheap crudeness! Lots of immature fun!Review date: 2010-04-16 Rating: 8 out of 10If you are a fan of the Austin Powers franchise, especially part 3, you will think at times that you have seen Myers do this type of character portrayal before. Well, and you have! Myers has played very similar wacky, crazy, strange, crude, characters for sure. Some have complained of these similarities and wrote bad reviews semi-based on this fact.
For being a "Love Guru" whom is out to make the world a better place, he is very perverted and crude at times... well, most of the time! He is mega-rude to the coach of the Maple Leafs, played by Verne Troyer. The chemistry between the two is piss-your-pants funny as the coach tries to even the score with the Guru he literally cannot stand the sight of, which you can't blame him for!
The announcers at the hockey arena, Justin Timberlake's character, Jessica Alba (yeah, that freak show of a guru would have a chance with her), and an unusually funny Ben Kingsley all help add some flair to this ruckus tale of a Love Guru and his quest to cleanse the world with joy and peace. I didn't realize Love Gurus were such rude, demented, perverts! I watch this when I need a good laugh and hopefully you will at least give it a shot!
Until then my fellow amazon.com junkies!!!wouldn't knowReview date: 2010-02-06 Rating: 2 out of 10Since I never recieved this, I really wouldn't know how to review it. The "seller" just stole the money, and hasn't responded to any emails, plus amazon hasn't stepped in to do anything about it despite emails that I've written. So this gets a zeroGive me a pound. Lock it down. Break the pickle. Tickle, tickle!Review date: 2010-01-26 Rating: 10 out of 10This movie was voted the worst of 2008 by The Golden Raspberry Awards. It actually received 3 awards. One for Worst Movie, another for Worst Screenplay, and yet another for Worst Actor, Mike Myers. It was also a certified Box Office Bomb. Now, it's things like that which usually grab my interest.
I can remember years ago reading the reviews in the papers for Mike Myers' Austin Powers movies, and the critics would almost always trash these films. When I would eventually see the movies for myself, I would enjoy them immensely. It turned out that most times a reviewer would tear apart a movie, most times I turned out to really like those movies. And this is another example of one of those movies hated by critics, but loved by me.
Mike Myers plays the character, Guru Pitka, who is a spiritual self-help Guru who longs to be the #1 Guru in the world. He is a rather silly, crude, rude, and bumbling fella who manages to get into all kinds of zany situations. Sound familiar?
Yes, Pitka is similar in a lot of respects to Myers' other famous character, Austin Powers. Myers plays the character much like he did Austin, with a sly grin, a knowing wink, and a nod to the audience, and basically hams it up for laughs all the while milking every joke for what it's worth. And ham it up he does. Which is why I love this movie.
The jokes aren't the funniest and they're nothing we haven't seen before a dozen times already, but, to see the way Mike and the rest of the cast mugs it up in their roles throughout the movie makes it all worthwhile. I found myself chuckling and giggling quite a bit at their antics. Aside from Mike Myers, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley particularly seemed to really have a lot of fun with their performances.
So, if you're in the mood for some award-winning and goofy lowbrow comedy, give the Love Guru a try.
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Romany Malco
Mike Myers
Meagan Good
Justin Timberlake
Jessica Alba
Recording label: Paramount Manufacturer: ParamountEAN: 0097363507048Binding: DVDFormat: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Release date: 2008-09-16Universal product code (UPC): 097363507048Number of discs: 1Aspect ratio: 2.35:1Audience rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)Region code: 1Running time: 87 minutesTheatrical release date: 2008-06-20Language: English (Unknown)
Brand: Paramount
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