The Love Guru (2008) – Movie Review

The Love Guru is a comedy starring Mike Myers and Jessica Alba.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Mike Myers and Jessica Alba in "The Love Guru"
Mike Myers and Jessica Alba in "The Love Guru"

Guru Maurice Pitka (played by Mike Myers) is a self-help life coach and is the second most popular guru, behind Deepak Chopra. His ultimate goal is to take over from Deepak Chopra as the number one guru. An opportunity arises when Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) enlists the help of Pitka to help Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), the star player of the ice hockey team, Toronto Maple Leafs has a problem which affects his hockey performance. This problem is caused by the fact that his wife, Prudence (Meagan Good) has left him for L.A. Kings goalkeeper, Jacques “Le Coq” Grandé (Justin Timberlake). Since Bullard offers a generous amount of payment plus an opportunity to be invited to Oprah Winfrey’s show, Pitka accepts the opportunity as he knows it would help him becoming the number one guru.

Though the movie is partially funny, most of the jokes are satirical — the movie relies mostly on mindless crotch humor and midget jokes. Verne Troyer (who played Mini-Me in Austin Powers movies) plays Punch Cherkov, the coach of Toronto Maple Leafs. When you put the entire movie casts together, you get a movie that’s full of crap. But, at least, it is still better than Disaster Movie, which has like 0% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Overall, Mike Myers is still a great comedian, he just needs a better script. A spiritual, self-help guru is like a character totally opposite him. The Love Guru is still watchable if you have nothing better to do.

My ratings: 3 out of 10.

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The Love Guru (2008) Trailer

The Love Guru, Pitka (Mike Meyers) is an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business.

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Justin Timberlake Pepsi Commercial

Another commercial from the Super Bowl. I don’t find it hilarious at all.

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Justin Timberlake – Director’s Cut – What Goes Around… Comes Around Video Music

Justin Timberlake’s cinematic new video co-starring Scarlett Johansson. A hot video!

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Aniston tops People magazine “best-dressed” list

Even in Hollywood — land of breast implants and botox — natural counts for something. So says People magazine, which on Wednesday said Jennifer Aniston topped its list of best-dressed women of 2006 for her natural fashion sense.

Jennifer AnistonThe popular magazine’s annual best- and worst-dressed issue hits newsstands this Friday and features numerous Hollywood stars all given a moniker to describe their taste in couture.

Oscar winner Halle Berry, dubbed “The Classic,” is No. 2 behind Aniston, and No. 3 was “The Newcomer” Jessica Alba, 25, star of movies like last summer’s hit “Fantastic Four.”

Elizabeth Sporkin, People’s executive editor, said for the first time the list was picked by online readers and not the magazine’s editors. She said Aniston, “The Natural,” won by 54 percent.

“She has a fashion sense that is very accessible,” said Sporkin. “She wears jeans and T-shirts and blazers. She dresses like a regular person, and her evening wear, if you were going to an event, you would think you could really dress like her.”

Sporkin said Alba follows more trends and Berry is a master at picking outfits that fit well. In each case, she said the list’s stars were highly identifiable to everyday people.

For the men, singer Justin Timberlake was named “Trendiest,” and English soccer star David Beckham looked best in “jacket and jeans.” George Clooney took the honor of “best monochromatic” look.

“He’s the new Cary Grant,” Sporkin said of Clooney. “All these men are men who really pay attention and care about how they look.”

Of course, there were the worst fashions of the year, too. But instead of a top 10 list, the magazine took issue with style. There was public pajama wearing by the likes of Paris Hilton and Teri Hatcher’s penchant for showing off her underwear. People devoted an entire page to Sharon Stone.

“These are well-dressed people who really messed up,” Sporkin said. “They had a bad day.”

Then again, there are “world’s worst” British pinup models Jordan and Jodie Marsh. Jordan, whose real name is Katie Price, is renowned for her breast augmentations and Jodie has worked as a topless model and a “Page Three Girl” Britain’s The Sun.

They are “famous for their tacky style,” said Sporkin.

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