15% The Love Guru

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Has the Downfall of Mike Myers Truly Begun?
Published 6/22/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... and thankfully it seems the world has come to agree with me as well. The film has a measly 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the only positive reviews coming from a few no-name critics, and barely made enough money to even make a dent in its rumored $62 million budget. I guess this goes to prove that great marketing means nothing if the movie looks like complete shit. I have no remorse for Myers and The Love Guru and can smile when I say that I'm happy to see him fade away. His comedy has become so over-used and washed up, that I'd rather ...

Anyone Subjected Themselves to 'Guru'?
Published 6/30/2008 by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood at Mollygood
... As of today, The Love Guru has a 15 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer (which goes to 100). Of the few reviews that said the film was good, one used the term “elephant sex” and another admitted that it was “juvenile,” “strained” and “baggy.” ...

The Law of Diminishing Mike Myers Comedy Returns [Flatlining]
Published 7/3/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... It occurred to us here at Defamer HQ that The Love Guru—by all accounts, the most execrable film sediment to coat our cultural shores in eons—marks something of an Unfunniness Benchmark for its dwarfhandling star, Mike Myers. Which got us a-thinking: Was he ever funny? What if we could map the relative comedic trajectory of his collected oeuvre over time and space, in a scientifically controlled environment? ...