No, I did not get a chance to see the movie. But this is “one of a kind” review which I wanted to share. Some excerpts:
“There are good movies. There are bad movies. There are movies so bad they’re good (though, strangely, not the reverse). And once in a while there is a movie so bad that it takes you to a place beyond good and evil and abandons you there, shivering and alone. Watching The Love Guru (Paramount Pictures) is a spiritual experience of a sort, but not the sort that its creator and star, Mike Myers, intended. 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. In the course of those long minutes, Myers leads you on a journey deep inside himself, to the source from whence his comedy springs—and it’s about as much fun as a tour of someone’s large intestine.”
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“It’s difficult to get across just how unfunny the jokes in The Love Guru are. There’s one gag (”What’s the capital of Thailand?”) that I remember from a party in junior high school—I didn’t laugh then, either.”
There was one other movie with such Guru and love in it. I am not able to recall the name but I found it as bad as this one probably is. May be, the Hollywood guys intend not to take the Indian Gurus seriously. However, I recommend it will be much more fun if they EXACTLY depict what our Gurus do – from magic to what not. One can read Khushwant Singh’s “Gods and Godmen of India” for better insight.
