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Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers), who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and taken in by kindly gurus. An American by birth, Pitka absorbs the lessons taught to him by his teachers and later returns to the United States to become a leading authority on spirituality and self-help. While Pitka's methods are decidedly unorthodox, they may be the only means of ensuring that the Toronto Maple Leafs win the coveted Stanley Cup. The Maple Leaf's star Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) is in trouble. His estranged wife has recently begun dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) in a vengeful effort to send her husband's career into a tailspin, and when Roanoke starts to falter on the ice, the whole team starts to suffer. As their visions of leading the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Stanley Cup are quickly going up in flames, team owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer) enlist the aid of the world's best-known relationship expert in restoring the peace between Roanoke and his wife, and getting their team back on the track to the championships.

Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good

REVIEW:

Austin Powers was funny. It had over-the-top sight gags and gross outs that were funny because they weren't taken seriously. The characters got a little obnoxious by the third installment, but whatever, the whole series of flicks was funny.

The Love Guru introduces another Mike Meyers character (The Guru Pitka) but this time it falls flat on its face. The attempt to actually do something half serious ends up weighing down the funny and there are far too many scenes where we awkwardly watch Meyers make sounds or faces for no reason.

The humor is uber-juvenile, with poop, dick, and fart jokes running rampant. Some of them kind of work but it just seems that The Love Guru is an exercise in "How Many Boner Jokes Can We Fit Into A Movie?".

The Love Guru is about a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player whose lost his nerve when his wife leaves him for a well-endowed rival (Justin Timberlake) just in time for them to go head to head for the Stanley Cup, and Pitka is called in to solve the problem. There's two things unbelievable about that setup right there: one, everyone knows Timberlake is hung like a hamster, and two, the Toronto Maple Leafs will never get close to winning the Stanley Cup.

Admittedly, Timberlake steals his scenes as the Celene Dion-loving French Canadian goalie Jacques "La Coq" Grande. He's funnier than Meyers is the entire film.

The redeeming bits are as follows: Jessica Alba, "musical" numbers, Steven Colbert, and the animated Hockey Team Icons. Seriously, watching the LA Kings logo shoot the Toronto Maple Leafs logo and the little Leafs mourning is hilarious.

Poor Meyers, he's lost his touch. He needs to get back to his roots in So I married an Axe Murderer or Waynes World. If he continues on this path he's doomed to disappear into obscurity.

The Love Guru fails outright. It's unfunny at best. Tickle Tickle.

My Verdict?

SKIP IT