My wife just lately bought a copy of The Love Guru DVD and I must admit it's stronger than I expected it to be. The plan in the movie is a Guru named Pitka is an American brought up outside of the USA and returns to launch his own self-help company. His foremost challenge is to resolve the romantic problems of a superstar hockey player, which is also causing him the same troubles on the ice as well.

The Love Guru DVD, stars the perpetually crazy Mike Myers, who also penned the screenplay. It also stars the beautiful Jessica Alba and equally manly Justin Timberlake and of course Ben Kingsley. While earning thirty two million at the ticket booth is nothing to to be ashamed of, for Myers this constitutes a failure. As an actor he has enjoyed large success and has watched his films just kill at the box office, but this film had too much poor buzz from the very get-go, it's not hard to consider why it disappointed in the ability to sell tickets.

Myers' schtik isn't for everyone, but I know I laughed. Searching around, however, I saw that my fellow moviegoers were enjoying themselves as much as well being at an actual hockey game. Still though, Mike Myers is so vibrant, good-natured and clearly having a blast being a clown that it's nearly impossible not to be won over.

All The Same, below the disguise there lurks the flavor of Austin Powers, whose love of double entendres and fart jokes remains present and politically incorrect. Which is precisely where and why The Love Guru hurts itself. Almost all the jokes are centered around either genitalia or that Austin Powers-style of wink-nudge artificial sexuality, which doesn't fit at all with this part.

Although a tad unbalanced, The Love Guru scores just enough guffaws than clunkers, though parents should heed the PG-13 rating in earnest. It is perhaps vintage Myers, with an extraordinary, broadly played character adopted from Peter Sellers, silly make-up, smart puns, innuendo, the occasional pause for song and dance and Myers' continuing obsession with little people.

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Elizabeth Traineroni enjoys dvd movies and is a movie buff, investigator and writer who takes out time from viewing movies to pen articles.