The Love Guru DVD Makes Just Enough Guffaws Than Stinkers To Be Called A Winner

We just recently bought a copy of The Love Guru DVD and I must admit it's better than I anticipated it to be. The idea in the film is a Guru named Pitka is an American brought up outside of the USA and comes back to launch his private self-help company. His foremost challenge is to resolve the romantic problems of a star hockey player, which is also giving him similar difficulties on the ice as well.nnThe Love Guru DVD, stars the always funny Mike Myers, who also wrote the screenplay. It also stars the pretty Jessica Alba and every bit as manly Justin Timberlake and of course Ben Kingsley. While earning thirty two million at the ticket booth is nothing to sniff at, for Myers this constitutes a loser. As an actor he has enjoyed grand success and has seen his movies just kill at the box office, but this film had so much bad buzz from the very get-go, it's not difficult to understand why it disappointed in the ability to sell tickets.nnMyers' shtick is not for everyone, but I acknowledge I laughed. Looking around, however, I witnessed that my fellow moviegoers were enjoying themselves as much as well being at an actual hockey game. Still though, Mike Myers is so alive, good-natured and clearly having a great time acting like a goofball that it's almost infeasible not to be won over. nnNonetheless, below the disguise there lurks the flavor of Austin Powers, whose love of double entendres and fart jokes stays present and politically incorrect. Which is just where and why The Love Guru hurts itself. Most gags are concentrated around either genitalia or that Austin Powers-style of wink-nudge false sexuality, which doesn't work at all with this part.nnAlthough a tad uneven, The Love Guru scores more than enough guffaws than stinkers, though parents should take the PG-13 grading in earnest. It is though vintage Myers, with an abnormal, broadly played character borrowed from Peter Sellers, silly makeup, smart puns, innuendo, the unpredictable pause for song and dance and Myers' ongoing fixation with little people.