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Love Guru Is Beyond Help

Posted Jun 20, 08 8:40 AM CDT in Opinion,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Love isn't the right word to describe how most critics feel about The Love Guru, Mike Myers' first live-action comedy in 5 years. Myers stars as a self-help guru paid to revive the love life of a hockey player, but his mugging isn't enough to salvage "a collection of scattershot jokes clothes-pinned to such a slender plot," Colin Covert writes in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Love Guru "scrapes bottom for laughs," Rafel Guzman writes in Newsday, "resorting to pop-culture jokes, weak musical numbers and, most abysmally, the sight of two elephants doing it." The premise would have made a fine "Saturday Night Live" skit, writes Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, "but we're talking 15 or 20 minutes of decent material. The movie runs a little longer than that."

Sources Rotten Tomatoes, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Newsday, Chicago Tribune

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"The Love Guru" cast members Mike Myers, left, Meagan Good, center, and Romany Malco pose backstage after an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
"The Love Guru" cast members Verne Troyer, left, and Mike Myers pose backstage after an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
In this image released by Paramount Pictures, Jessica Alba, left, Mike Myers, center, and Manu Narayan star in the comedy "The Love Guru."   (AP Photo)
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