Seeing ‘The Love Guru’ Fosters Bad Karma
Last night I met up with Steph and Alek for a quiet night at the movies (since it’s so darn hot around here we wanted to do something air conditioned) and we decided to see The Love Guru. Steph and I had such a good time watching You Don’t Mess with the Zohan on Thursday night that we were looking forward to enjoying more hilarity last night … unfortch, there was no hilarity to be had in The Love Guru:
As you can imagine, all of the funniest parts were shown in the trailers and TV commercials … there was nothing funny left for the actual movie. The jokes were extremely tired and overused. I can’t believe that Mike Meyers is still trying to make a career out of potty jokes. I’m not sure what I expected from this movie but I was disappointed that I came away from the theater totally empty-handed. There wasn’t a single strong comedic performance from anyone. Justin Timberlake was simply horrible. Not only was he not funny by any stretch of the imagination but his sad attempt at a French-Canadian accent was totally pitiful and laughable … not in a good way. Jessica Alba and Megan Good booth looked amazing … and the songs were kinda funny but the whole movie just sucks a fat one. I will say that the faux Bollywood scenes were cute but not nearly good enough to save this stupid movie. I haven’t been this disappointed in a comedy in a long time. I kept trying to laugh, kept trying to have a good time but it was just so bad … I’m sorry, I cannot recommend it to anyone. Go see Zohan instead, that movie has some actual funny parts in it.
After the movie, we were hungry for something palatable … so we went to Birds for a late dinner. After we had sufficiently feasted, we met up with Mike for a quick drink at the Cat and the Fiddle to finish out the night.
Today, I’ve got work and packing to take care of … then dinner plans with Mike later on tonight. I have an early flight to NYC tomorrow so I gots stuff to take care of. I’m sure I won’t mind staying out of the 100+ degree weather today ;) Stay cool, y’all!!
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June 21st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I guess Ill still have to watch it just to see the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley cup.
June 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I thought this segment was very rude and not needed. I am Canadian myself and maybe you Americans don’t understand the humor cause its mostly about Canada. I am extremely offended about this piece. Maybe you should get your head out of the toilet and get a real job.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Katie, I agree. Mike Meyers may be making a career out of potty jokes, but so is PEREZ HILTON. For shame.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Eh…I thought it had it’s funny parts. I hated all the austin powers movies so I wasn’t expecting much, and was plesantly suprised. I guess the moral is, Lower your expectations? LOL…
June 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I’m just surprised people would actually GO to this movie, thinking “hey, this might be good – let’s go!”
I mean, come on…any movie that has to resort to MIDGET HUMOR, and use that IN THE TRAILER as a supposed mechanisim to “hook” an audience into going to the movie – is OBVIOUSLY going to be BAD!! It’s a stupid GAG humor – if you can even call it humor – and it’s pathetic that studios make this type of shit product assuming that audiences are really that dumb and couldn’t possibly appreciate INTELLIGENT comedy that ACTUALLY makes you laugh.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 am
Go see Get Smart. It’s funny and Anne Hawthaway looks beautiful.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
thats the idea of mike myers movies….there stupid but entertaining…..and it SUPPOSE to be cheesy like justin’s accent…and the midget humor and potty jokes thats what mike myers movies are known for if you’re a mike myers fan this movie won’t disapoint