The Love Guru

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. [...]

di Jan Stuart, articolo completo (4865 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 20 giugno 2008