The Love Guru

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Critics' Reviews

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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Occasional bursts of comedy keep things from becoming unbearable but whenever Myers tries to get even a little serious or advance the "plot," the desire to take a nap becomes almost overpowering.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Enraptured by bathroom humor that doesn't even reach sophomoric standards. It's more on the level of preschool.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
The Love Guru is a shambling, hit-or-miss thing, like an old Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. And like the situations those comics often got into, this movie is a fine mess.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Piles dumb gag upon dumb gag - it's like benign pummeling. Occasionally, you just have to laugh.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Jan Stuart
The film's sunniest moments occur whenever song preempts all the fighting and smirking. Myers leads the cast in sitar-accompanied covers of such Bollywood favorites as "9 to 5" and Steve Miller's "The Joker," revealing a glimmer of the cross-cultural romp that could have been.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Myers is trying for another of his endearingly hormonal imp-egomaniacs, but hidden behind a wavy beard, a wax-curled mustache, and an astoundingly ugly squashed fake nose, he's a little too grotesque.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ella Taylor
Now and again some pungent writing leaks through to poke fun at the excruciating banality of guru wisdom. But mostly it’s dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel, and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers, shooting for cuddly.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: John Anderson
The results are a wheezy, tired attempt to milk more laughs out of the '60s, by doing exactly what "Austin Powers" did.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
This is the first time we've seen Myers in the flesh since he committed assault and battery on Dr. Seuss, and I wish the cat had stayed in the hat.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Myers has made some funny movies, but this film could have been written on toilet walls by callow adolescents.Read Full Review »
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