The Love Guru (2008)

Director:

Marco Schnabel

Writers (WGA):

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

Release Date:

20 June 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

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:

Guru | Hockey | Chastity Belt | Mistake | Sex Toys

Awards:

3 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Mike Myers	...	Maurice / Guru Pitka / Young Pitka / Teenage Pitka / Himself
Jessica Simpson	...	Herself
Jessica Alba	...	Jane Bullard
Kanye West	...	Himself
Justin Timberlake	...	Jacques 'Le Coq' Grande
Deepak Chopra	...	Himself
Rob Blake	...	Himself
Meagan Good	...	Prudence Roanoke
Ben Kingsley	...	Guru Tugginmypudha
Romany Malco	...	Darren Roanoke
Verne Troyer	...	Coach Punch Cherkov
Manu Narayan	...	Rajneesh
John Oliver	...	Dick Pants
Stephen Colbert	...	Jay Kell
Jim Gaffigan	...	Trent Lueders

Also Known As:

Der Love Guru (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 | UK | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | 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) | Argentina:13 | South Korea:15 | New Zealand:M | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Paramount 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:

Errors in geography: During the scene where the Guru Pitka is talking to Darren Roanoke at Niagara Falls, the two are seen standing at the lookout next to the Bridal Veil falls. However, on the one-shot of Guru Pitka, he is standing on the Canadian side of the Falls, where you can clearly see the lookout they are supposed to be standing on.

Quotes:

Jacques Grande: And now, I'd like to show my love by making for you a Quebec pizza.
Prudence Roanoke: What's that?
Jacques Grande: Pop-Tart with the ketchup. She's good.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "The Electric Company" (1971)

Soundtrack:

I Drove All Night

If you were expecting a bad movie, well... you were actually right

The Love Guru, when I saw the trailer, I wasn't exactly laughing, but it was Mike Myers, the clever man who has brought us Austin Powers and Wayne's World, I had to have hope. Well, Mike Myers, I have no choice, I really wanted to slap the heck out of him when I was watching this painful movie. Now I'm convinced that Mike must have some obsession with the penis, because there are so many penis jokes in this movie it just becomes painfully unfunny. Now there was a decent audience in the movie theater, like twenty something people, I did not hear one laugh, seriously, I even kept sighing, wondering when this movie was going to be over. Five people left early complaining, I wished I had joined them, but something inside me was just hoping that something would make me laugh, I was really pulling for Mike, but he has just made me so unhappy with this bad movie that was just his pathetic attempt of constantly reminding people of his good comedic days.

Guru Pitka is a self help guru who is very successful, but he is ranked as the number two self help guru of the world. The only way he feels like he can be successful is to be on Oprah. So he has to save a man, Darran, on a loosing hockey team in Canada to get him back with his ex girlfriend who is with this "cocky" winning goalie, Jacques Grande. Guru also meets the owner of the team, Jane, who he just falls for, so in order for him to get famous, he has to get Darran back with his girl and the team will start winning.

Yeah, I'm serious, that's the "plot", sad, isn't it? I just seriously cannot believe how low Mike Myers has sunk, the cast was bad and the story was just, I don't think it was even existent. Now, I hate it when people call movies racist without even thinking what the movie is supposed to be, but you know what?! I was friggin' offended by this movie, it was just plan sad, Mike Myers has lost his game and cannot admit it. He should have just stuck to the animated voices, because his characters now are just lame. There is nothing I could say more than please just stay away from this film, I know I said this before, but this is just a painful and unfunny movie. Good luck to Mike Myers, he'll need it big time after more critics review this bad movie.

1/10