I couldn't think of a worse character I'd like to see Mike Myers as

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A metal head who has his own show and lives in his mum/mom's basement... yes. A british super spy that can poke fun at all the spy films and british idioms... yes. The voice of a big green ogre that can parody lots of fantasy and fairy tales... yes. I'd pay to see all of those.

I couldn't think of a worse character I'd like to see Mike Myers as... than an asian love guru trying to find spirituality so that he can have sex with an ugly pop star.

This is one Myers film I'll be avoiding. :sleep:
 
I honestly couldn't tell you what lengths I'd go to avoid this film.

I loved Waynes World, but everything he's done since then has been completely unfunny.

What's his fixation with doing crap British accents? It goes all the way back to I Married and Axe Murderer.
 
I saw the trailer recently and didnt think it looked that funny. Appartently is being getting some really bad reviews in US and here is one from Aintitcool.com:

"Harry says, 'If S*** Got THE LOVE GURU On It, S*** Would Wipe It Off!'

Unf***ingbelievably unspeakably awful. THE LOVE GURU is astonishingly rancid. There's a part of me, that wants THE LOVE GURU to make like 75 Million opening weekend. Why? So that the entire - giant film going audience marks Mike Myers' death as a comedian.

Reviews of this film are nearly universally grotesquely negative - and with good reason. With this film, Myers puts a shotgun in the mouth of comedy and kills it. This isn't merely a bad film, but a painful experience that you keep telling yourself to leave. However, I have a very strong belief in witnessing the terror. People had to survive the Holocaust to hold those responsible, responsible. This film isn't as bad as the Holocaust. Nothing could be. But in the realm of film going experiences - it's a third trimester abortion. It is a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette and drinking a Coors Light.

Myers not only tells alleged attempts at jokes - but often time spenRAB minutes of screen time attempting to explain why the joke is funny... He's like that Comedy School guy that tries to teach BORAT comedy... but with no BORAT in the room.

I saw THE HAPPENING - it was the film before this that I saw in theaters. It's getting a lot of s*** - and make no bones about it, THE HAPPENING is a very bad film. But at least it had a premise - at least it was momentarily compelling in places. This was a painful film experience. Imagine injecting hydrochloric acid into your left teste... or right breast. Imagine following that up with injections throughout your body.

THE LOVE GURU is one of the most inept pathetic terrifyingly awful experiences I've ever suffered through.

As the audience walked out - they all had that 100 yard stare. We'd all seen s*** that makes s*** seem HELLO KITTY cuddily. I know someone I highly respect that apparently liked and enjoyed this film. I don't think ill of him. I am just completely and utterly at a loss. I can't imagine an instance or moment that one could grasp ahold of and not want to choke to an early grave.

Seriously - the only enjoyment I can imagine with this film - is watching your fellow audience members - and ponder their faces as they witness this atrocity. OR - like in my theater - there were 4 ladies sitting to my left that actually laughed throughout the film. They were literally alone. They were middle-aged and seemingly lucid. I can not account for their reactions.

BEWARE - SEE AT YOUR OWN RISK"

I dont think he liked this film and that must be the most negative review I have ever read!
 
Out of interest, other than not going to see it at the cinema, not renting or buying the DVD and not watching it if it's ever on TV (which is all fairly simple stuff) what "lengths" would you have to go to?:confused:
 
Good question, i like a challenge:

*Me and the missus are having a night in, watching the telly, sometime in 2011, The Love Guru comes on, and for some reason no other channels work apart from the one showing a 3 hour Coronation Street omnibus: I'd go for corrie (if you knew me you'd know how hard it would be for me).

*It's my best mate's 30th, let's say he lives in East Stirlingshire, and to mark the occaision of getting old he's geting his closest freinRAB round to watch a DVD. I turn up after a 14 hour train journey from East Anglia and he says "Right boys we're watching The Love Guru with Mike Myers." I would have no choice but to say "sorry mate, freinRABhip only goes so far" and start my 500 mile walk home (it's friday night and there's no trains til monday due to planned engineering works).

*Let's say there's a nerve gas attack above Norwich and the only safe, sealed area in my vicinity is Odeon screen 14, but it's showing the Love Guru, I think I'd just hold my breath and try my luck.

Will that do?
 
That falls under the banner of "not watching it if it's on TV."

And if watching Coronation Street is such torture, couldn't you instead go for a walk, or out for a pint or play on your Mario Kart Wii No: 3179-6259-9990 or do any of the other millions of alternatives there are to watching television?



That falls under the banner of "not renting it out or buying it on DVD."

And if such a thing does happen, wouldn't your best mate rather watch a different DVD than see you set off on a 500 mile walk? And anyway, if you were going all that way just to watch a DVD, wouldn't you check which DVD it was first?



And that falls under the banner of "most amusing, but highly unlikely.":D:p;)

As do the first two as well, actually!
 
I dunno, the trailer looks mildly amusing and I love the Wayne's World, Shrek and Austin Powers films... but if Myers is only going to do foreign accents and stereotypical comedy from now on then I might just give this a miss until it comes out on DVD.

Paddy :D
 
I saw it yesterday (currently in Chicago)

Don't bother wasting money on it.

If you really really really have to see it, out of some fetishistic reason, download it for free. Maybe the crappy CAM quality version will hide the crappy actual quality of the film.

(I also saw Get Smart, and although slightly better, it's also not worth the ticket price).
 
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