Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
24
(33 sources)
24
(33 sources)
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75
Christian Science Monitor
What links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers. Read Full Review » -
63
ReelViews
Occasional bursts of comedy keep things from becoming unbearable but whenever Myers tries to get even a little serious or advance the "plot," the desire to take a nap becomes almost overpowering. Read Full Review » -
60
Film Threat
To be sure, The Love Guru is incredibly funny. Side-splitting laughter only stops when the movie does, so don't expect it to linger all the way to the parking lot. Read Full Review » -
58
Portland Oregonian
I still kind of find myself admiring the actor, and the film. Love Guru is insane and self-indulgent but also fully committed, and there's a surprising undercurrent of earnestness to its philosophy portions. Read Full Review » -
50
Time
The Love Guru is a shambling, hit-or-miss thing, like an old Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. And like the situations those comics often got into, this movie is a fine mess. Read Full Review » -
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Piles dumb gag upon dumb gag - it's like benign pummeling. Occasionally, you just have to laugh. Read Full Review » -
50
USA Today
Enraptured by bathroom humor that doesn't even reach sophomoric standards. It's more on the level of preschool. Read Full Review » -
50
San Francisco Chronicle
A disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something. Read Full Review » -
42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
If you're a Toronto native or a big-time hockey geek, there are enough little in jokes to probably carry you through the leaden pacing and barrel-scraping gross-out humor, but it's an awfully dull ride for the rest of us. Read Full Review » -
42
Baltimore Sun
Newcomers to the Mike Myers experience will leave this love train early. Read Full Review » -
40
Los Angeles Times
The film's sunniest moments occur whenever song preempts all the fighting and smirking. Myers leads the cast in sitar-accompanied covers of such Bollywood favorites as "9 to 5" and Steve Miller's "The Joker," revealing a glimmer of the cross-cultural romp that could have been. Read Full Review » -
40
Variety
So relentlessly juvenile as to merit a new twist on the PG-13 rating -- one that strongly cautions not only those under 13 but anyone much above it, too. Read Full Review » -
38
Chicago Tribune
The Love Guru"does not bring out Myer's best, and aside from a deft early Bollywood parody, there's nothing visually to help the fun along. Read Full Review » -
33
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Myers combines his love of references, silly names, and mindless repetition by having his guru use "Mariska Hargitay" as a greeting/mantra. The first time it's employed, it's merely unfunny; by the 13th or 40th time, it's almost hypnotic in its awfulness. Read Full Review » -
33
Entertainment Weekly
Myers is trying for another of his endearingly hormonal imp-egomaniacs, but hidden behind a wavy beard, a wax-curled mustache, and an astoundingly ugly squashed fake nose, he's a little too grotesque. Read Full Review » -
30
Washington Post
The results are a wheezy, tired attempt to milk more laughs out of the '60s, by doing exactly what "Austin Powers" did. Read Full Review » -
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Not only does the film stumble badly from one skit to another, the skits themselves have too much dead air. Read Full Review » -
30
Village Voice
Now and again some pungent writing leaks through to poke fun at the excruciating banality of guru wisdom. But mostly it's dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel, and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers, shooting for cuddly. Read Full Review » -
30
Chicago Reader
This Mike Myers vehicle exemplifies American comedy's continuing slide into infantilism. Read Full Review » -
25
TV Guide
Adam Sandler can breathe a sigh of relief: Thanks to this crude, bafflingly unfunny comedy from fellow SNL alum Mike Myers, Sandler can rest assured that his "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" won't go down as the worst movie of 2008. Read Full Review » -
25
New York Post
The Love Guru is even funnier than "Wayne's World" or "Austin Powers." Not. Read Full Review » -
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Myers has made some funny movies, but this film could have been written on toilet walls by callow adolescents. Read Full Review » -
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The Love Guru is a comedy like the Leafs are a hockey team. Read Full Review » -
25
Miami Herald
Insulting to anyone with a healthy sense of humor and the simple desire to laugh. Read Full Review » -
25
Boston Globe
This is the first time we've seen Myers in the flesh since he committed assault and battery on Dr. Seuss, and I wish the cat had stayed in the hat. Read Full Review » -
20
New York Daily News
An atrocious, idiotic 88 minutes of anti-entertainment. To borrow word-shtick from the guru Pitka, it's AWFUL as in, "Anyone Watching Feels, Um, Loser-ish." Read Full Review » -
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Austin Chronicle
It recycles gags from earlier and better Myers movies and hopes that the audience won't notice because they're too busy staring at Timberlake's bursting Speedo. Read Full Review » -
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Salon.com
Offensive to Hindus. Never mind the Hindus; The Love Guru is offensive to pretty much anyone with a brain. Read Full Review » -
0
The New York Times
The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again. Read Full Review » -
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Wall Street Journal
The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere. Read Full Review » -
0
Slate
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. Read Full Review »
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