The Love Guru (2008)

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.

Director:

Marco Schnabel

Writers:

Mike Myers, Graham Gordy

Stars:

Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Romany Malco

5 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

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

Storyline

Born in America, but raised in Havemahkeeta in India, with a population of 76, Maurice had always to better Deepak Chopra, and be sexually active, ever since he was 12. His Guru, Tugginmypudha, while approving of Deepak, cautions Maurice and has a chastity belt put around his waist. Years later, Maurice has established himself as Guru Pitka in America, but would like to appear in the Oprah Show and be better than Deepak Chopra. When Jane Bullard from the the Toronto Maple Leafs hires him to counsel their star hockey player, Darren Roanoke, to win back his wife, Prudence, from Kings' star player, Jacques Grande, and also stand up to his dominating mother, Lilian, he agrees to do so - with hilarious results.

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Plot Keywords:

guru | hockey | toronto maple leafs | chastity belt | male underwear | 

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Taglines:

His Karma is Huge

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

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Certificate:

14A

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [France]

Country:

USA UK Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 June 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Le gourou de l'amour

Filming Locations:

Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$62,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£498,829 (UK) (1 August 2008)

Gross:

$32,178,777 (USA) (22 August 2008)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Goldcrest Pictures, Internationale Filmproduktion Poseidon

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The scene where Pitka (Mike Myers) and Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) are on the plane and said she turned for advice from gurus when her dad died, is based on a real life situation by Mike Myers after his father died.

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Goofs

During the first game after Pitka joins Roanoke, he is hit hard at the opening face off. From the overhead shot, we see that he has lost both gloves. In the following close up shot, he once again has his right glove back.

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Quotes

Rajneesh: [answering cell phone] Dell Computers, this is Chip.

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Crazy Credits

One outtake with Verne Troyer is shown during the end credits.

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Connections

References Punk'd (2003)

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Soundtracks

Swan Lake
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

User Reviews

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