THE LOVE GURU: Most Misunderstood Film Of The New Millenium Thus Far?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:53pm

Of course the critics and the audiences would miss the point with this movie because, apparently, the point is too subtle for those dim neanderthals. Mike Myers, a Canadian filmmaker, is incredibly smart and precise in his lampooning of the self-help sickness that has gripped our world. We are presented with a character named Guru Pitka, expertly played by Myers, who is a feel-good self-help guru much like the type beloved by talk shows. A "spritual advisor" who offers safe, secular advice that, when it boils down, has very little meaning. Myers illustrates this idiocy through the use of acronyms, rendering the mantra "Be Loving and Open With My Emotions" into B.L.O.W.M.E., perfectly encapsulating this movement.

And yet Myers illustrates that all of this is "safe". The film is mainly about the safety in pointless inertia. The penis and fart jokes were not meant to be penis and fart jokes but were meant to COMMENT on penis and fart jokes. Why? Because penis and fart jokes make people feel GOOD in a safe way. Films like MEET THE SPARTANS make millions while smart comedy like THE LOVE GURU and IGBY GOES DOWN fall by the wayside. Myers was exploring what it is about the human body that is so funny. Are we ashamed of our bodies, our "sacred temples" as they are called? Through that shame, why must we laugh?

I would really like to hear some other interpretations of this movie and what you guys thought of it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:20pm

This is not GWTW

It is another mind numbing Mike Myers movie.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:25pm

No matter how much you try to polish a turd Cruel...

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:34pm

So it's really a message movie laden with dick jokes?

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:46pm

Cruel, you're either a dangerously unbablanced person or one of the best satirists I've ever read. I choose to believe you're the latter.

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:47pm

No.

[artscallion]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 5:27pm

"Myers illustrates this idiocy through the use of acronyms, rendering the mantra "Be Loving and Open With My Emotions" into B.L.O.W.M.E., perfectly encapsulating this movement."

Really? This perfectly encapsulates the self help movement?

Here's my illustration of this review: Could Reviewer Utter Encapsulation Less In Such Assinine, Numbingly Inane Drivel In One Thread?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 7:56pm

This city deserves a better class of criminal...

And I'm gonna give it to 'em...

You'll see...

I'll show ya!

[worrell4077]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:14pm

Ok, I think Cruel has lost his mind. First he's calling Love Guru the most misunderstood film of the year which is like saying that Bratz and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry were the most misunderstood films of 2007. Second, he's quoting for no apparent reason TDK.

I'll admit that the first time I watch the trailer for Love Guru I was laughing very hard, but each time after that, not so much. It just doesn't look like it would be a big hit. I mean, I like Mike Meyers, but this just look so bad and casting Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake along with him was just stupid since both really can't act.

I was at the movies this weekend, but I went to see the better comedy that was released on Friday and that was Get Smart.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:17pm

Cruel hasn't lost his mind. He's just playing the same games as before.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:18pm

"Cruel hasn't lost his mind. He's just playing the same games as before."

True, but how do we know for sure he hasn't lost his mind this time????

[Chevstriss]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:53pm

Bwwwaahhhhaahhhhahhhhaaaaa

Did I ever tell everyone my roommate in the early 80s was in the Don Knotts epic "The Love God?" ?

she is the REALLY tall p****ycat with red hair. Anyone here know her? is it legal to post a youtube of her? mine always get yanked.


wow. edited cuz the bot didn't like her character name. would it also edit that famous current singing group name? the girl group that sing badly and wiggle around in lingerie? it's the same word

Updated On: 6/22/08 at 10:53 PM

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 4:32am

"LOVE GOD"s a masterpiece. Now THAT would make a great musical!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 5:00am

I thought the movie was pretty funny. It's a specific brand of comedy that gathers its fans and hatters just like any other comedian driven film. Myers may never reach the same comedic heights as the first Austin Powers movie, or the adoration of his SNL days, but most comedians are never able to outdo their best work and the Love Guru is hardly his flattest joke. You know damn well once Meet Dave hits theaters you're all going to be saying that it makes the Love Guru look like Shakespeare. Mariska Hargitay to you all.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:06am

Cruel at least tries to write something serious about the movie, while everyone else has been content to simply dismiss it as trash. Roger Ebert's dismissal was particularly interesting, evidently THE LOVE GURU wasn't as funny as BEOWULF, which Ebert, alone in the universe, thought was intended as a comedy.

Was it Myers' intention to parody the whole self-help industry? It looks like he's pretty buddy-buddy with Chopra.

[Chevstriss]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:14am

my former room mate stands behind Don Knotts, on the far left in the formation

http://youtube.com/watch?v=O81mnYTlRec