The Love Guru, 2008

I watched this film expecting nothing and it fully delivered. Perhaps it is because my expectations were set so low that I am allowing this film one star. This could have been a really good, funny film (and for the first 15-minutes it actually was) but instead The Love Guru is painfully typical.



Mike Myers plays a Guru who wants to be as famous as Deepak Chopra. To attain his goal, he must help the manager of an ice hockey team (Jessica Alba) get her star player back on track. The movie features Justin Timberlake, John Oliver, Meagan Good, Romany Malco, Jim Gaffigan, and Stephen Colbert (Colbert plays an off-the-wall sports announcer who is fighting a drug addiction).

Guest appearances by: Deepak Chopra, Jessica Simpson, Kanye West, Val Kilmer, and others.

While there are a number of funny bits (most notably two Bollywood dance spoofs), The Love Guru runs about an hour too long, is filled with moments that make you physically cringe, lots of jokes about bodily functions, and numerous double entendres.



Melody's Stars: *


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system