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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 69510
Released: September 16, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of The Love Guru (Two-Disc + Digital Copy):
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
The Love Guru (Two-Disc + Digital Copy) Reviews:
Austin Powers watch out! 
2009-06-27 - The Love Guru was the Austin Powers of the melinneum. Mike Myers did it up in this comedy and this will be a movie I watch again and again through the years. However, if you don't like slap-stick comedy, I would suggest going and getting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or some lame title like that :)
A superb parody!!
2009-03-12 - What can I say about this movie....?? It's just great! Mike Myers at his best. Also this follows a theme which we are seeing more and more often now, the marrying of Hollywood with Bollywood! Slumdog Millionaire is a natural follow-on from this movie, which takes a light-hearted view of Americans need for love and quest to find it, whatever the cost!! Keep it up Mike!
You'll pray for the sweet relief DEATH will bring 
2009-02-06 - This has to be one of (if not the worst)movie ever made. I normally like Mike Myers' movies but this one was torture. Except for one line near the end, I didn't even crack a smile much less laugh through the entire brutal experience.
This movie is to funny, what Gitmo is to luxurious accomodations. In fact, I would rather have been waterboarded than forced to watch this drivel. Amnesty International should take action against the film-makers for this monstrosity.
PLEASE, save yourself the agony...slam your hand in a car door, soak it in vinegar then light it on fire, put out the fire with salt and you'll save yourself some torment.
Beautiful Blu-Ray Transfer 
2009-01-22 - I know this movie just received the award for worst movie of the year. However, I laughed myself silly over and through this movie. I am not giving it a five star rating for content but will not apologize for liking it either. I am instead giving it a five star rating as the picture and sound are so sharp. The many colors of this movie are absolutely gorgeous. If you like this movie and are on the fence on if you want to own it on Blu-ray, I would definitely recommend it.
Wow....this is worthy of a suicide....... 
2009-01-18 - Mike Meyers is funny. Austin Powers and Wayne and the like are funny. Pitka is NOT funny. This movie is a incoherent rambling of crap jokes and poor actor choices. This movie brings the suck hardcore. Besides the dialouge being worthless the plot is a complete abomination. Meyers obviously has talent and can be fun to watch.......which makes this even more dissapointing. I want my 90 minutes of my life back so I can do something productive, like carve out my eyes with a ice cream scoop.
