The Love Guru (Blu-ray) PG-13
His Karma is Huge
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 16, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mike Myers, Jessica Alba & Justin Timberlake | |
Performer: | Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Omid Djalili, Ben Kingsley, Verne Troyer, Jim Gaffigan & Stephen Colbert | |
Directed by | Marco Schnabel | |
Edited by | Lee Haxall, Gregory Perler & Billy Weber | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Myers & Graham Gordy | |
Composition by | George S. Clinton | |
Cameo: | Mariska Hargitay, Jessica Simpson, Kanye West, Morgan Freeman, Deepak Chopra & Oprah Winfrey | |
Produced by | Mike Myers & Michael De Luca | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Deming | |
Executive Production by | Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum & Donald J. Lee, Jr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Love Guru just feels lazy, filling time with jokes about Celine Dion, Oprah Winfrey, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Myers and Kanye West's Katrina telethon appearance -- essentially, inside jokes for everyone in the world with cable.
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Stop Smiling
Rating: 3/5 --
Myers' shtick isn't for everyone, but I laughed. Looking around, however, I saw that my fellow critics were enjoying themselves as much as Gordon Brown on the beach at Southwold.
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Guardian
No doubt, I'm not the target demographic for this movie. And I could be wrong. But I'd be shocked, and dismayed, if it's a hit, and even more shocked and dismayed if it begets a new Mike Myers franchise.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 0/5 --
At one point Kingsley's character makes his pupils duel with mops soaked in his own urine. If you think that's funny, be my guest.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 1/6 --
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Well 'they' obviously haven't seen 'The Love Guru', an overgrown dirt-patch of clunking juvenilia.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
Myers has created in Pitka a character that's sexually ambiguous, deeply neurotic and far more fascinating than the puerile script.
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Times (UK)
Funny in fits and starts, though the fits are a little convulsive and the starts seldom come with a convincing ending or pay-off.
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Financial Times
Product Description:
Mike Myers spoofs the self-help industry with the creation of Guru Pitka, his first original character since Austin Powers. Orphaned at a young age, Maurice (Myers) studies with Guru Tugginmypuddha (Ben Kingsley) at an ashram in India where his classmate is a young Deepak Chopra. Pitka becomes a world-renowned guru in his own right, but despite his best efforts, he repeatedly comes in second to Chopra in the guru rankings. But his manager has a plan: the only difference between Pitka and Chopra is that the latter has appeared on THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW. Pitka's key to an Oprah show appearance is Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), star player of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. Estranged from his wife, Prudence (Meagan Good), who has started dating French-Canadian Jacques "Le Coq" Grande (Justin Timberlake), Roanoke's game has suffered terribly, putting his team's bid for the playoffs and the Stanley Cup in jeopardy. If Pitka can reunite the estranged couple in time for Roanoke to help win the Stanley Cup, he'll get more than just a big paycheck; he'll finally be on Oprah.
Myers created Guru Pitka after embarking on his own spiritual search following the death of his father. He counts Chopra, who appears briefly in the film, as a personal friend. Jessica Alba stars as the owner of the Maple Leafs, and Verne Troyer is their coach. Playing sportscasters, Stephen Colbert and Jim Gaffigan share some of the film's funniest moments, while Timberlake holds his own on the comic front. Watch for brief appearances from Jessica Simpson, Val Kilmer, Mariska Hargitay (whose name Pitka co-opts as his greeting), Kanye West, and even Myers himself. Parents should be forewarned: THE LOVE GURU is filled with double entendres, sexual innuendo, plenty of midget jokes, and gross-out humor.
Myers created Guru Pitka after embarking on his own spiritual search following the death of his father. He counts Chopra, who appears briefly in the film, as a personal friend. Jessica Alba stars as the owner of the Maple Leafs, and Verne Troyer is their coach. Playing sportscasters, Stephen Colbert and Jim Gaffigan share some of the film's funniest moments, while Timberlake holds his own on the comic front. Watch for brief appearances from Jessica Simpson, Val Kilmer, Mariska Hargitay (whose name Pitka co-opts as his greeting), Kanye West, and even Myers himself. Parents should be forewarned: THE LOVE GURU is filled with double entendres, sexual innuendo, plenty of midget jokes, and gross-out humor.
Product Description:
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.
Source - Paramount Home Entertainment