Friday, July 11, 2008

Shawn's Love Guru Review

2008 Movie #68 - The Love Guru

God damn you Love Guru. At least The Happening was entertaining on some crazy so bad it's good level. You however have the privledge of being the first genuinely bad movie of the 2008 summer.

I remember after seeing the trailers I thought this was going to be terrible. However I held out hope that maybe, just maybe, the movie itself would prove me wrong and turn out to be a pleasant surprise. Not so much. The movie isn't a complete trainwreck, but it's certainly not funny. The best thing it has going for it are some cool cameos. However if you know those going in, then that means there is pretty much no reason to see this one.

I like Mike Myers for the most part. The Wayne's World movies are awesome (yes even the second one), I like the Austin Powers movies (the first being of course the best), as well as So I Married an Axe Murderer and at least the first Shrek. This is just a huge misstep and possibly a sign that it might be time to pack it up, or at least wildly change his brand of humour because the 5th grade penis jokes just ain't doin' it for anyone anymore.

The problem mainly is that the movie simply isn't funny. Mike Myers seems to think it's hilarious though and that eventually makes the movie come off as not funny, as well as irritating to watch. Jessica Alba offers up a whatever performance and Justin Timberlake gets almost nothing to do, although he does fine with what he has.

I don' tknow...don't see it.

* 1/5 /5

2 comments:

Wolverinefactor said...

I agree with this review but JT made me laughing during his speedo scene while I don't think I laughed any other time in the movie.

BTW is Jenny alive or did you bury her body in the basement?

Shawn said...

she still claims shes goign to catch up but i think we both now that aint ever gonna happen now.