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Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglement... read more read more...s of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and taken in by kindly gurus. An American by birth, Pitka absorbs the lessons taught to him by his teachers and later returns to the United States to become a leading authority on spirituality and self-help. While Pitka's methods are decidedly unorthodox, they may be the only means of ensuring that the Toronto Maple Leafs win the coveted Stanley Cup. Maple Leafs star Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) is in trouble. His estranged wife has recently begun dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) in a vengeful effort to send her husband's career into a tailspin, and when Roanoke starts to falter on the ice, the whole team starts to suffer. As their visions of leading the Maple Leafs to the Stanley Cup are quickly going up in flames, team owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer) enlist the aid of the world's best-known relationship expert in restoring the peace between Roanoke and his wife, and getting their team back on track to the championships. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 27 min.

Directed by: Marco Schnabel

Release Date: June 20, 2008

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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008

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  • DreamExtractor
    April 6, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    A horrible movie. I laughed maybe twice at this crappy film, not only was it stupid, there was no point to it. I cant say anything else about it because it sucked so much.
  • theylovealexis
    December 20, 2010
    theylovealexis
    Mike Myers has done it again. He's made another totally pointless, but beyond hysterical movie. As long as you know it's going to be stupid and going for cheap laughs, then you'll have fun. Justin Timberlake is funnier than I thought he would or could be. Jessica Alba still sucks... read more. But it's a good movie about a love guru helping people fix love while he finds it.
  • dreamfaeries
    September 23, 2010
    dreamfaeries
    Not that funny and/or exciting. Although Justin Timberlake was brilliant and I would probably watch more of him doing that character.
  • Gx7
    September 19, 2010
    Gx7
    As stupid as stupid goes, a few nuggets here and there, ok-ish.
  • bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb1
    July 23, 2010
    bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb1
    C-
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    July 15, 2010
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Where to start with this film. seriously. This is a terrible comedy with only two laughs to be had in this film. Mike Myers is usually funny, but in this he's very annoying. Luckily he redeemed himself with Inglourious Basterds. This was one of 2008's worst films.
  • RCCLBC
    July 7, 2010
    RCCLBC
    I caught this (for free) on one of the satellite channels last weekend and all I can say is that if you feel like you "HAVE to see this"...that's the best way to go. I wouldn't pay to rent it or even waste precious Netfilx queue space on it.

    Aside from a few chuckles here and... read more there...it was completely forgettable. Which is unfortunate because the potential is there for a really funny film, but sadly it's Mike Myers limited character repertoire that ultimatley does things in. A majority of the time Guru Pitka comes across simply as Austin Powers playing dress-up.

    The highlight (and I use the term loosely here) are the tow "Bollywood" dance numbers.
  • 3niR
    February 15, 2010
    3niR
    Ewww hate it.
  • fb733768972
    January 14, 2010
    fb733768972
    I will admit that it is a pretty bad movie, but I kind of find it really funny at times!
  • sononothing
    November 24, 2009
    sononothing
    Every once in awhile and actor comes along that you just want to beat the hell out of. That actor is Mike Meyers. I don't know why but with him doing the same schtick over and over again, constantly flashing that god awful Canadian smile at us it just pisses me off. I don't get i... read moret. I just hate his guts.

    It's probably because The Love Guru is just another version of Austin Powers with Meyers playing up excrement and masturbation humor to its fullest. Wait a minute! I can't use the word humor because they're not funny. Now before you label me a prude, I enjoy a good joke about poop. One of my guilty pleasures is a film called Night Patrol, a 1984 film featuring a farting Billy Barty and a masturbating Pat Morita. Even a scuzzy film like that can make it funny. After years of Mike Meyer's doing it as Austin Powers and now as Guru Pitka it just seems desperate. Very, very desperate.

    The Love Guru is about a hockey player named Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) who leaves his wife (Meagan Good) for some "bitches", but becomes obsessed with her coming back after she hooks up with goalie Jacques "Le Coc" Grande (Justin Timberlake). The Maple Leafs owner (Jessica Alba) decides that the way to win the Stanley Cup is for Guru Pitka (Meyers) to come to Toronto and cure Roanoke of his problem and get him back together with his wife.

    Yeah, the movie sucks just as much as the plot. I could bash Meyers some more, but we all know what his problem is. Instead of actually having his face in films he decided to take the quick payday and voice Shrek for half the decade (I really, really, REALLY wish that they would give us a cut of the first film with the original voice of Shrek- Chris Farley). So what happened? Austin Powers got stale real fast and people like Sandler and Rogen took over Mike Meyers spot. As I said, the Love Guru is just another Austin powers movie that was rewritten to not quite be an Austin Powers movie. This film is such a piece of utter garbage that words can't describe how universally awful it is. If Ed Wood was alive he would say that The Love Guru is shit. I could talk about the acting, but it's awful and there's no point in wasting the time. Ben Kingsley is in this! Ben Kingsley who won and Oscar for being Gandhi! He goes back to the well and uses his Gandhi skills for this piece of shit? What the hell's wrong with you, Ben? Remember Schindler's List? Just say no, man. Just say no.

    God, even thinking about this movie again is giving me a headache. I just realized something. Some people like to be whipped. Some people like to use clothespins in areas. I like to watch toilet remains like the Love Guru. Isn't it kinky?

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Critic Reviews

Richard Roeper
June 23, 2008
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

It's just deadly.

Owen Gleiberman
June 20, 2008
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

If you're in the mood for a delightful tweak of today's self-actualizing New Age gurus, look elsewhere. If, on the other hand, you want to see gags about boogers, elephant poop, and mano-a-mano duels ... Full Review

Christopher Orr
June 20, 2008
Christopher Orr, New Republic

The endless winks at the camera look more desperate, the jokes at Troyer's expense seem more tasteless. Full Review

John Anderson
June 20, 2008
John Anderson, Washington Post

Mike Myers is anti-comedy . . . that is, if one presumes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising or, yes, funny. Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
June 20, 2008
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere. Full Review

Peter Howell
June 20, 2008
Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Myers' Pitka is the stealthiest of holy rollers: he makes you roar just when you think he's going to hell in a hand basket. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
June 20, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Mike Myers' new comedy, The Love Guru, is a disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something. Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
June 20, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

The picture, written by Myers and Graham Gordy and directed by Marco Schnabel (no relation to Julian), is listless and pokey, chiefly because watching Myers in this particular guise is almost complete... Full Review

James Berardinelli
June 20, 2008
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

The frustrating thing about the movie is that it contains moment of comedy that verge on inspired, but they are too infrequent to justify the running length. Full Review

Roger Moore
June 20, 2008
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

It's vintage Myers, with an outrageous, broadly played character borrowed from Peter Sellers, silly makeup, bad puns, innuendo, the occasional pause for song and dance and Myers' ongoing obsession wit... Full Review

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