The Love Guru Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews
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The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.Read the full review

Variety | Brian LowryAdd Critic to Favorites

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

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

Enraptured by bathroom humor that doesn't even reach sophomoric standards. It's more on the level of preschool.Read the full review

Slate | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

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

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Los Angeles Times | Jan StuartAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.Read the full review

Washington Post | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

Not only does the film stumble badly from one skit to another, the skits themselves have too much dead air.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

A disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something.Read the full review

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