The Love Guru
HEADLINE: ** Repulsively Awful **
Title: THE LOVE GURU
Quality: * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: -- Some English subtitles --
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VVV
Sex: SSS
Nudity: NN
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: June 20, 2008
TIME: 88 minutes
STARRING: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, and Ben Kingsley
DIRECTOR: Marco Schnabel
PRODUCERS: Michael De Luca and Mike Myers
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Donald J. Lee, Jr.
WRITERS: Mike Myers and Graham Gordy
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures/Viacom
CONTENT: (PaPaPa, FRFR, AbAbAb, HoHoHo, LLL, VVV, SSS, NN, A, DD, MMM) Extremely scatological, perversely sexual, somewhat Hindu, pagan worldview containing a lot of psychobabble, constant obscene sexual, infantile jokes with a solipsistic self-centeredness, plus very strong mocking of Hinduism, Christianity and religion and very strong homosexual jokes; 68 obscenities, two profanities and many instances of mocking religion, including an African American Baptist church; intense, over the top, slapstick violence such as midget shoots across the ice after being electro-shocked to revive his heart, hockey players beaten, kicked and hit in private parts at one point by two young pre-teen girls, a fight with mops soaked in Guru's urine, and many other cases of over-the-top violence; constant sexual innuendo from the names of the characters to the locations as well as the dialogue, constant homosexual references especially between the guru and his assistant, two elephants mate on the ice, references to self-abuse, references to defecation, man does yoga position putting his head in his rear; upper male nudity, women in revealing costumes and disgusting visual references to male and female sex organs; alcohol use; drug use and references to drug use; and, anything immoral and objectionable that a wicked human mind can conceive.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: THE LOVE GURU is a repulsive, embarrassing, obscene, disconnected, boring, and awful movie about a Hindu sex guru, played by Mike Myers, who wants to get famous by appearing on Oprah Winfrey's TV show. No sexual perversion is overlooked in this alleged comedy vehicle, which includes nearly 70 obscenities and many instances of mocking religion, including Christianity.
IN BRIEF:
THE LOVE GURU is repulsive, embarrassing, obscene, boring, and awful. It is intentionally offensive. Mike Myers is Guru Pitka, the son of missionaries, who abandoned him as a child to be raised by a crazed guru in India along with his nemesis rival Deepak Chopra. While Chopra is interested in enlightenment, Pitka is interested in sex. Pitka resents being the No. 2 guru in the world. His manager says he can get Pitka his big break on the Oprah program if he brings a Toronto Maple Leaf hockey player back together with his wife.
This thin plot device tries to carry a stream of offensive sex, blasphemy and homosexual jokes. The flood of disgusting sexual content features every sexual perversion, including bestiality. No sane person would want to see this movie. One does not have to be overly moral, righteous or religious to find it extremely offensive and poorly made. Please keep your impressionable children away from movies like THE LOVE GURU. To give this movie a PG-13 rating is an unforgivable travesty. Don't let your children go to any movie until you check out its content at movieguide.org.
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