The Love Guru

Mike 'the love guru' myers

Guru Pitka è uno spensierato maestro orientale dell'amore. Da consigli sentimentali, organizza party insieme ad alcuni attori famosi e scherza con battute esilaranti. Quando Jane Bullard, la manager di una squadra di hockey sul ghiaccio, chiede a Pitka di risolvere i problemi sentimentali del giocatore Darren Roanoke, la situazione si conplica e Pitka, per riuscire nell'impresa, deve insiegnare al giovane delle regole fondamentali per riconquistare l'amata e far vincere la squadra nel campionato. continua »

Just Say ‘Mariska Hargitay’ and Snicker

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. »

Una commedia al profumo di cannella che gioca con l'estetica bollywoodiana

"Love Gourou" : Mike Myers, scato intégriste Depuis Goldmember, le dernier volet de la série des Austin Powers, Mike Myers ne donne guère signe de vie sinon pour prêter sa voix à des personnages de dessins animés. Réalisé par Marco Schnabel, qui fut assistant sur Goldmember, Love Gourou entend réactiver le capital érotico-scatologique de la vedette. Le projet s'arrête à peu près là, et le résultat est consternant. Mike Myers apparaît ici dans la peau d'un gourou blanc élevé en Inde et dont l'objectif est de devenir le gourou le plus recherché des stars américaines. »

Mike Myers' sophomoric shtick wears out its welcome fast

Behold Mike Myers. As Guru Pitka, a self-styled Deepak Chopra wannabe whose every utterance has been pre-packaged and trademarked, he glowers from behind a flowing Rasputin beard, waxed curlicue mustache and eyebrows that arch and swoop like a roller coaster. He's a one-man production number: You take him in the way you would, say, the Taj Mahal, or a Steve Wynn hotel lobby. Early in "The Love Guru," a comedy of low blows and elephantine misfires, a childhood flashback lets us in on the character's origins. »

In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits. Handicap: His edge has been blunted from lack of use over five years, except for voicing an ogre in the Shrek trilogy. Here, as guru Pitka, an American-born rival to Deepak Chopra in love therapy, he repeats lame jokes in a singsong accent until you want to scream. His formal greeting is "Mariska Hargitay." His mentor is guru Tugginmypudha (Sir Ben Kingsley). He helps Jessica Alba, the unlikely owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, deal with libidinous goalie Jacques "Le Coq" grande (Justin timberlake). »