The Love Guru Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.Read the full review
So relentlessly juvenile as to merit a new twist on the PG-13 rating -- one that strongly cautions not only those under 13 but anyone much above it, too.Read the full review
Enraptured by bathroom humor that doesn't even reach sophomoric standards. It's more on the level of preschool.Read the full review
This tale of a guru who brings joy to all who meet him is the most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room.Read the full review
Occasional bursts of comedy keep things from becoming unbearable but whenever Myers tries to get even a little serious or advance the "plot," the desire to take a nap becomes almost overpowering.Read the full review
The film's sunniest moments occur whenever song preempts all the fighting and smirking. Myers leads the cast in sitar-accompanied covers of such Bollywood favorites as "9 to 5" and Steve Miller's "The Joker," revealing a glimmer of the cross-cultural romp that could have been.Read the full review
The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.Read the full review
The results are a wheezy, tired attempt to milk more laughs out of the '60s, by doing exactly what "Austin Powers" did.Read the full review
Not only does the film stumble badly from one skit to another, the skits themselves have too much dead air.Read the full review
A disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something.Read the full review