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The Love Guru DVD Scores More Than Enough Guffaws Than Stinkers to Be Called a Winner

We just lately purchased a copy of The Love Guru DVD and I have to admit it’s groovier than I anticipated it to be. The idea behind the film is a Guru named Pitka is an American brought up outside of the United States and returns to launch his personal self-help business. His initial challenge is to settle the romantic troubles of a superstar hockey player, which is also causing him similar troubles on the ice as well.

The Love Guru DVD, stars the forever funny Mike Myers, who also wrote the screenplay. It also stars the beautiful Jessica Alba and every bit as macho Justin Timberlake and of course Ben Kingsley. While making thirty two million at the box office is nothing to sniff at, for Myers this represents a failure. As an actor he has reveled in grand success and has watched his pictures just pop at the box office, but this film had so much negative buzz from the very beginning, it’s not hard to consider why it disappointed in the ability to sell tickets.

Myers’ shtick may not be for everyone, but I know I laughed. Searching around, however, I witnessed that my fellow motion-picture fans were enjoying themselves as much as well attending an actual hockey game. But, Mike Myers is so alive, good-natured and clearly having a great time being a goofball that it’s almost infeasible not to be won over.

All The Same, below the camouflage there lurks the disembodied spirit of Austin Powers, whose passion of double entendres and fart jokes remains present and politically incorrect. Which is just where and why The Love Guru fails. Most jokes are concentrated around either genitalia or that Austin Powers-style of wink-nudge artificial sexuality, which doesn’t work at all with this character.

Although a bit uneven, The Love Guru scores more than enough guffaws than stinkers, though parents should take the PG-13 grading in earnest. It is though vintage Myers, with an abnormal, broadly played character borrowed from Peter Sellers, silly makeup, bad puns, innuendo, the occasional pause for song and dance and Myers’ continuing fixation with little people.

Elizabeth Traineroni enjoys dvd movies and is a movie lover, investigator and writer who takes out time from watching movies to write articles. You can buy the Love Guru DVD and view reviews at her favorite hi def site.