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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"

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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Verne Troyer, who plays "Mini Me" in Austin Powers movies is suing celebrity Web site TMZ.com and others for $20 million over an already infamous sex tape that he says was stolen from him and posted online.

Troyer who will be starring in another Mike Myers film, “The Love Guru,” filed the suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. He reportedly appears in the sex tape with former girlfriend Renae Shrider. Also named as a defendant in the suit is a movie distribution company, SugarDVD; and promoter Kevin Blatt, who last made headlines as the guy who was reportedly wheeling and dealing Paris Hilton’s 2004 sex tape.

The tape was posted on TMZ on Wednesday, with a headline that included the words “avert your eyes.”

Troyer, 39, is 2 feet, 8 inches tall (0.81 meters).

Troyer is seeking $20 million in damages, claiming the tape was stolen from him and that TMZ violated his privacy in posting it. He also wants to block distribution of the tape and demands that it be removed from the Internet.

TMZ officials were not immediately available to comment.

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