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Article: `Love Guru' goes askew.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- September 14, 2008
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"THE LOVE GURU"
Paramount, $29.99, with featurettes, bloopers, deleted
and extended scenes, available Tuesday.
Grade: B-
Mike Myers' latest quirky creation is an off-color mix of self-help king Tony Robbins, Tim Meadows' Leon "The Ladies Man" Phelps and the Beatles' spiritual leader the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Guru Pitka is an American raised by Indian mystics sent back to his homeland to help save troubled relationships. He's asked to help Toronto Maple Leafs star Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), who lost his trophy wife to well-endowed, cheeseball Canadian goalie Jacques Grande (played by a hilarious Justin Timberlake). ...