Well, The Gomesh from Q on CBC radio just talked about it and said that everyone is saying it's horrendous!!

Don't believe the hype: it's hilarious! If you like Austin Powers, you'll like this.

I give it two coqs up!

JustErin said:

Yes, the reviews are bad.

Are you talking about Jian Ghomeshi (or however the hell you spell his name)?

Ace said:

Cool..suppose to see it this weekend.

Ace said:

Ya. I've always called him that. He's a dink. I could tell you some stories about that dude.

Anyway, it's weird that everyone seems to hate it - like really hate it.

I find it strange that the reviews are so bad, 'cause the humor has the exact same sensibility as AP.

Ace said:

EW had an article last week saying that Mike Myers has burned a lot of bridges in Hollywood, to the point that many people want to see him fail. They go on to hypothesize that the over-the-top approach to humor that he uses is out of step with the current more "realistic" approach used in successful comedies like "Knocked Up", "...Sara Marshall", et al.

Ace said:

EW had an article last week saying that Mike Myers has burned a lot of bridges in Hollywood, to the point that many people want to see him fail. They go on to hypothesize that the over-the-top approach to humor that he uses is out of step with the current more "realistic" approach used in successful comedies like "Knocked Up", "...Sara Marshall", et al.

I think I might go and watch get smart first.

a twitter friend posted this: “The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.

Plus, it has Timberlake in it, and I just can't bring myself to support anything with that untalented twat-dropping in it.

meow85 said:

i like him much more as an actor than a "musician." i love his first Saturday Night Live gig (the Kermit the Frog one) and thought he was solid in Black Snake Moan.

meow85 said:

i like him much more as an actor than a "musician." i love his first Saturday Night Live gig (the Kermit the Frog one) and thought he was solid in Black Snake Moan.

meow85 said:

i like him much more as an actor than a "musician." i love his first Saturday Night Live gig (the Kermit the Frog one) and thought he was solid in Black Snake Moan.

madartista said:

I agree. I also was surprised by how much I enjoyed him each time he's guested on SNL. He was very funny.
[Edited 6/20/08 19:54pm]

a twitter friend posted this: “The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.

Just Say ‘Mariska Hargitay’ and Snicker
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: June 20, 2008

It’s likely that the younger generation of moviegoers knows Mike Myers primarily as the voice of Shrek. It has been five years since “The Cat in the Hat,” his last live-action movie, and six since the third “Austin Powers” picture, so a bit of reintroduction may be in order. Kids who wonder just who this guy is — and grownups with a merely casual rather than morbidly obsessive interest in pop-culture ephemera — will need some remedial instruction.

Back in the ’90s, they should be told, Mr. Myers was without peer in a challenging and intensely competitive pursuit: the manufacture of comical catchphrases that, while not especially funny in themselves, would call forth peals of knowing laughter when repeated out of context.

Party on, Garth! Touch my monkey! Groovy, baby, groovy! I’ve got shpilkes in my geneckteckessoink! He had a million of them, or at least a half dozen. But to judge from “The Love Guru,” a new feature film directed by Marco Schnabel, Mr. Myers, a writer and producer as well as the star, seems to have lost his touch. The movie’s takeaway catchphrase is “Mariska Hargitay,” which is used by the title character as a fake-Hindi spiritual greeting. This is almost hilarious the first 11 or so times he does it, but by the time Guru Pitka (Mr. Myers) says “Mariska Hargitay” to Ms. Hargitay herself, it’s somehow less amusing than it should be.

Which might sum up “The Love Guru” in its entirety but only at the risk of grievously understating the movie’s awfulness. A whole new vocabulary seems to be required. To say that the movie is not funny is merely to affirm the obvious. The word “unfunny” surely applies to Mr. Myers’s obnoxious attempts to find mirth in physical and cultural differences but does not quite capture the strenuous unpleasantness of his performance. No, “The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.

And this is, come to think of it, something of an achievement. What is the opposite of a belly laugh? An interesting question, in a way, and to hear lines like “I think I just made a happy wee-wee” or “I’m making diarrhea noises in my cup” or to watch apprentice gurus attack one another with urine-soaked mops is to grasp the answer. Please don’t misunderstand: I’m not opposed to infantile, regressive, scatological humor. Indeed, I consider myself something of a connoisseur. Or maybe a glutton. So it’s not that I object to the idea of, say, witnessing elephants copulate on the ice in the middle of a Stanley Cup hockey match, or seeing a dwarf sent flying over the same ice by the shock of defibrillator paddles. But it will never be enough simply to do such things. They must be done well.

Instead Mr. Myers floats through “The Love Guru” with the serene confidence that everything he does will have us rolling in the aisles. He follows nearly every joke with his trademark facial tic, baring his teeth, pushing his head forward and widening his eyes, as if to grant uncertain viewers permission to giggle. Sometimes he does this to indicate the character’s attempt at levity — Guru Pitka making a joke at someone else’s expense rather than Mr. Myers making a joke at Guru Pitka’s — but the distinction hardly matters. The delusional narcissism of the Guru, who dreams of a spot on “Oprah,” is of a piece with Mr. Myers’s own.

The rule seems to be that no one may upstage him and all must adore him. The “Austin Powers” franchise fulfilled the first mandate by casting the star in several roles. He is supported by a cast that includes Justin Timberlake (as a well-endowed Québécois goalie), Romany Malco (as a hockey star with love trouble) and Jessica Alba, as the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. A further list — Stephen Colbert! John Oliver of “The Daily Show”! Ben Kingsley! — would only create the misleading impression that there is something worth seeing here. If there is — Did I miss it? Darn! — I’m sure it will show up on YouTube before long. In the meantime talk amongst yourselves.

a cast that includes Justin Timberlake (as a well-endowed Québécois goalie),

madartista said:

Does your friend write for the NY Times? Because that's a quote directly from their review. They hated it as well.

Don't believe the hype: it's hilarious! If you like Austin Powers, you'll like this.

I give it two coqs up!

Ace said:

We're going to see it tonight!