| The Love Guru (Single-Disc Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 1415
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 86
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD350704D
UPC: 097363507048
EAN: 0097363507048
ASIN: B0013J30YU
Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 2008
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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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
Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/27/2009 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Pg13
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 the absolute hybrid humor executed superbly! November 30, 2008
i can understand allot of people's misdirection with the humor in this film. It may not be relevant to everybody! But if anyone wants to get this movie i wish to elaborate on some other BBC old classic shows that may help people relate to it more:
i can understand allot of people's misdirection with the humor in this film. It may not be relevant to everybody! But if anyone wants to get this movie i wish to elaborate on some other BBC old classic shows that may help people relate to it more:
Goodness Gracious Me (BBC Radio Collection)
Mind Your Language, Vol. 2
Bride and Prejudice
Comedy Now! Starring Russell Peters
Now what do these comedies have in common with this movie? well to be perfectly blunt, nothing! except they have a "Desi" or Indian humor melted into it! i was surprised how Mike (chastity belt wearing neo-philosopher) Myers was able to pull off the accent and the movements, gestures so perfectly. The guy really reinvented himself in this film. I heard allot from people that this film is not cohesive, not related to anything and just makes people loose interest! I totally understand that especially myself being a mixed bag of potatoes myself!
Sadly the audience to really get this film have to have had some affinity with the following forms of humor:
British / American / Indo-Asian /
This might sound a bit wacky but every "hybrid" (which i define having been brought up in all those 3 cultural settings) i have spoken to finds this movie a masterpiece! Other folks just could not get the humor which is fine! Overall this film has made me laugh no matter how many time i have watched it! (15 by my count)
 why so many 2 and 1 star reviews? November 26, 2008
I guess there are a lot of reviewers here who when it comes to a decent comedy to watch, they roll in hysterics at something as lame as The Jamie Kennedy Experiment or the voice over man repeating the same old lines over a video of someone falling down on un-funniest home videos.
I wish I had not taken any notice of the negative reviews this movie received when it was in theaters and actually gone to see it.
Mike Myers plays the Love Guru, not a dissimilar role to those seen in Austin Power movies, however, the comedy is definitely strong throughout this whole movie.
The Guru is a kid who is taken in by a group that look Indian, but pretty much fictional who teach him that to find love, you must first find love in yourself...yadda yadda... anyway, he grows up and is hired by a woman to go back to Canada with him to help there star Ice Hockey player get himself together.
It doesn't sound like much of a plot to be helping him, himself and others to find a happy ending sort of thing, but it's a comedy, and the comedy works pretty well through out most of the movie. Some things you feel are a bit stale as you have seen Mike Myers do them before, but there is a lot of gags and jokes that just make you burst out laughing during the movie.
It wont win any prizes for greatest character or plot, or any best film awards, but who cares, it's just a feel good comedy with typical Mike Myers humor all through it.
If you can't walk away saying this was at least an OK movie, or you did not laugh through the movie, you really need to have the stick removed from your ###
something I found great was I hate Justin Timberlake, but during his scenes, I didn't even know it was him till I watched a bonus feature. So for the others who cant stand him, it's ok, you wont recognize the dork (to put that very lightly)
Also Mini Me gets a role as the Coach with a speaking role this time, and the midget jokes going throughout this movie where what made the funniest scenes. Holding up a midget and saying, "I'd like to thank the academy for this award...." I don't care who you are, thats a classic right there!
Ignore the reviewers who consider comedy has to be as dull as Friends or something, and just sit back and enjoy the movie not expecting to see comedy for the ages, but something entertaining you can laugh at through out it even if you do think you wouldn't wanna see it again for a while... just give it a go and don't listen to the 1/2 star reviewers who just have it in for Mike Myers no matter what he does.
P.S: Look for Mikes little nod to Waynes World in the movie.
Mariska Hargitay, your Holliness November 23, 2008
This movie it's hilarious, very character was very natural and somewhat realistic, it's really funny....
Better than I thought November 19, 2008
First of all let me begin by saying that if I were a fan of Comedies I would have given this a four, but comedies because of their lack of realism are not my forte.
That being said, after viewing the average that this movie has (on Amazon) I was afraid to watch. I watched it however, because the cast seemed stellar enough.
After having watched the film I can honestly say that it was ammusing. There were parts that were meant to be funny and didn't do the trick and the unrealism found in most comedies was rampant but it was done in a very silly manner and the writing was sharp- atleast the way dialoque was used in order to get a smile (sorry not big on comedies) out of people. The acting was also quite good and some of the characters are flatline enough to be believable.
However, I don't think that this film is appropriate for a 13 year old. It is rated PG13 but I wouldn't show it to anyone under 15 and I think it would actually be appropriate for 16+. Some of the jokes have a tad too much perversion and I think that it will take an older crowd to understand them and more importantly understand the gist of it which is to ammuse and possibly shock but not to represent anything in particular.
All in all I would say that it was an hour in a half well spent.
Also, after reading some of the reviews it seems that most people are not impressed by it because of what they expect from Mike Myers. I honestly, don't expect anything in particular from him as I don't, as already mentioned, really have an interest in comedy or comedians. All I can say is that I would spend the time and the couple of dollars to watch a movie like this again. I think it was good work.
Better than Slapshot 2 November 19, 2008
I love hockey.
I like Stephen Colbert.
These two elements were in this film that critics hated and Amazon reviewers mostly hated. Why? I didnt find anything wrong with this movie. It was pretty funny and I didnt really see how the movie was rated so low. Stephen Colbert could have been used a few more times, I hate Justin Timberlake but he was really funny at his role, and Myers was decent but seemed not to be the focus of the film. So if you want a good laugh, ignore critics and some Amazon reviewes, this was a really funny film.
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