slate.com - 6/20/2008
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To listen to Slate's Spoiler Special about The Love Guru , click the arrow button on the player: You can also click here to download the MP3 file, or you can subscribe to the Spoiler Special podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here . Jessica Alba and Mike Myers Jessica Alba and Mike Myers in The Love Guru There are good movies. There are bad movies. There are movies so bad they're good (though, ...
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The Love Guru: More Offensive Than Nazism?
RadarOnline.com —
... (NPR even!) "This tale of a guru who brings joy to all who meet him is the most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room." Slate "His character, and a ramshackle plot about a lovelorn hockey star (played by Romany Malco ) are only crude pretexts for crotch humor, toilet humor, sexual outuendo, and a merciless succession of scenes involving flatulence, urination, and a dislikable dwarf." ...
Buzz Multiplex: Character Issues
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... ' obsession with male genitalia. Slate critic Dana Stevens calls her experience the "most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room." Despite Myers pimping this movie on ...
Weekend Movie Forecast: Get Smart Vs. The Love Guru
Gothamist —
... opines, “To say that the movie is not funny is merely to affirm the obvious… The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.” Not to be outdone, Slate’s Dana Stevens moans, “Once in a while there is a movie so bad that it takes you to a place beyond good and evil and abandons you there, shivering and alone.” ...
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Rolling Stone Movie Reviews 6/19/2008
Starring:
Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco,
Meagan...
Review: In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits. Handicap: His edge has been blunted from lack ...
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Celebrity Fix 6/20/2008
Mike Myers is white hot lately, coming off hosting the MTV awards and being on the cover of this month's Esquire (in which he interviewed himself). With his classic boyish haircut, he's been powering through the media machine like a pro lately. It's ...
Guru Gets the Raspberry (Seltzer) —
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He's playing a supremely spiritual guy this weekend, but Love Guru star Mike Myers seems firmly planted in the material world. And not necessarily focused on the big picture.New York Post gossips say that before an appearance Wednesday on Late Night ...
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